April 19 | Hudson, NY | 6:30pm
On Sunday, April 19, Basilica Hudson hosts “The Days Pass Quickly Immersed in the Shadow of Eternity,” a new composition by experimental musician Lea Bertucci performed with early music flutist Norbert Rodenkirchen, with an opening set from composer and media artist Olivia Block.
Rodenkirchen has spent decades collecting flutes that span from Neolithic bone instruments through Medieval and Renaissance examples, instruments rarely heard in any contemporary context. Bertucci recorded sustained tones and melodic fragments from five of them—a Medieval Traverso, Swan Bone, Sheep Bone, Renaissance Tenor, and Renaissance Bass—and built those recordings into an eight-channel speaker array that fills the room with layered, drifting sound. Rodenkirchen then plays live against and within that diffused field, ancient improvisation expanding and contracting across the space…