Displaced Light for flute, piano and electronics by Marc Estibeiro performed by Megumi Masaki

UBC Concert "Light and Perspective," Roy Barnett Recital Hall, Vancouver, BC. 30 January 2019

Displaced Light for flute, piano and electronics by Marc Estibeiro performed by Megumi Masaki

Paolo Bortolussi, flute; Megumi Masaki, piano; Keith Hamel, electronics

Two works on this concert program involve the transformation of soft sounds and silences. In Marc Estibeiro’s Displaced Light, inspired by refugee crises in Europe in 1956 and 2016, there is a sense of pervasive struggle built into the work, as if sounds are unwilling to be drawn from the instruments. The flute opens the work from silence, gradually turning the subtle, distant sound of wind and breath into a present sound and then fading back into silence. These moments of stillness are accompanied often by single notes in the piano that are left to ring until they join an undercurrent of electronic sound that reacts to the live performance.