Woods (2025)
| Durata: | 8’20’’ |
| Category: | Chamber music |
Woods (2025) 8'20 – bass flute, bassoon and piano with electronics in four channels
Woods is a commission from New York-based trio Apply Triangle with the musicians Yoshi Weinberg – bass flute, David Adam Nagy – bassoon and Jixue Yang – piano.
First performance at DiMenna Center for Classical Music in Manhattan, New York on 23 November 2025.
The concert will feature newly composed pieces by Yanqi Chen, Kim Hedås, Chen Shuhe Yue, Tianyu Zou and Jack Herscowitz, and a piece by Zoran Novacic.
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Programme note
The new piece, titled Woods, was written for bass flute, bassoon, piano, and electronics. As the piece progresses, three different musical materials intertwine and separate. Consisting of sixteen movements, the piece features transitions that either abruptly stop a phrase or softly lead the music into calmer atmospheres. These transitions combine fragments and moods from earlier sections to create a new, kaleidoscopic arrangement.
The three musicians are given constantly changing roles. The same applies to the electronic part, which is composed and spatialised for four channels. Resonances, swirls and shadows move through time, connecting the various sections of the piece and expanding the sense of space.
The music focuses on the darker timbres of the instruments, with the electronics acting as a counterpart in shadow to the lowest register of the piano. Occasionally, glimpses of brighter light also come into play, opening upwards.
Kim Hedås Woods (2025) is premiered by the New York-based trio Apply Triangle, featuring Yoshi Weinberg, bass flute, David Nagy, bassoon, and Jixue Yang, piano. The electronic part consists of four channels that are projected in an immersive way to surround the audience.
Commissioned and developed through the Chaospace Open Call, with its world premiere by Apply Triangle, presented by Chaospace (2025).
