BROILER Residency: Ghost Ensemble “Winding Wind”

Ghost Ensemble presents an evening of recent commissions incorporating just intonation, elemental forces, and Renaissance/Baroque practices, featuring the world premiere of the ensemble’s newest commission from KCM Walker and the Los Angeles premieres of Sarah Davachi’s Ghost Ensemble commission and the latest percussion work from Akari Komura. Developed through close collaboration with the ensemble, Sarah Davachi’s Basso Continuo stretches the Baroque practice of harmonic accompaniment to an extreme duration in a glacial just-intonation counterpoint. Like much of Davachi’s music, the real action happens in the phenomenological experience beyond the notation; her work invites a harmonic listening in between stasis and motion, where the physical bodies of the instruments and resonance of the room are constantly in play with one another. K.C.M. Walker’s Low Dance and Winding Wind, inspired by the Basse Danse and Tourdion dance forms popular at the turn of the sixteenth century, is composed around a just intonation scale that moves from a focus on harmonic consonance to the polyphonic texture of overlapping melodic contours. Drawing on the translation of Tourdion in reference to a twisting or winding motion, Winding Wind is a prolation canon featuring the harp which maintains an ostinato while simultaneously doubling the bass flute, accordion, and contrabass as they play versions of the same melody at different rates. Akari Komura’s voices on the surface invites the performer and listeners into dialogue with the voicelessness of natural elements, imagining sonic landscapes on the surfaces of trees, fire, earth, ore, and water.

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