Flashpoint, by Linda Dusman

Flashpoint

by Linda Dusman

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1.	Flashpoint 06:18	info	buy track
2.	Dream Prayer Lullaby 08:29	info	buy track
3.	Lake, Thunder 07:56	info	buy track
4.	Dancing Universe 08:39	info	buy track
5.	Corona Bagatelles: Silent City 01:00	info	buy track
6.	Corona Bagatelles: Quarantine Summer 02:13	info	buy track
7.	Corona Bagatelles: Cape Ann Gulls: Pecking Order 01:43	info	buy track
8.	Corona Bagatelles: Spring Torpor 03:56	info	buy track
9.	Corona Bagatelles: Binding (Variations on “A”) 03:20	info	buy track
10.	and numberless quotidian happenings 07:16	info	buy track
11.	Mother of Exiles 10:24	info	buy track

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With a tagline of “Music and sonic art from the personal to the political,” Linda Dusman walks her talk. While many composers make music about social and political topics, Dusman has a way of deftly intertwining significant societal issues with themes of identity, memory, and human experience, creating a deep connection between music, performer, and listener. The seven works on Flashpoint take challenging current events as creative stepping-stones, from the Syrian refugee crisis, climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond, as well as to personal themes of love and loss.

In the title track, Flashpoint for bass flute, Lisa Cella delivers a fiery and intense performance that mesmerizes with percussive elements and vocalizations. Dream Prayer Lullaby (under the dancing fingers of violinist, Airi Yoshioka) melds tonal elements of Arabic, Nigerian, and Andean lullabies to intersect with modes and gestures from Paganini’s 6th Caprice as a response to the experience of children as emigrants. Their forceful separation from their families at the southern US border in 2018 adds political urgency to the work.

Lake, Thunder offers a meditative exploration of energy at rest from the I-Ching hexagram, and Dancing Universe is a luminous tribute to Dusman’s parents, quoting fragments of their favorite hymns while reflecting upon T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets.”

Corona Bagatelles emerges as a musical cryptogram of the COVID-19 virus, offering solace during the pandemic through intricate musical structures derived from the spike protein’s 1273 amino acids. and numberless quotidian happenings takes the bass drum to unexpected places, while Mother of Exiles delves into the Statue of Liberty’s presumed perspective in today’s political climate.

Linda Dusman is currently Professor of Music at University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), where many of the album’s dazzling performers are also based. Flashpoint is an album of expertly constructed, deeply thoughtful works of urgent and distinguished beauty.

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released October 21, 2023

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Linda Dusman Baltimore, Maryland

Linda Dusman composes in the sonic terrain between concert music and sound art, often engaging with the natural world and current politics. She constructs her music as a catalyst for listening experiences that create a heightened awareness of the moment. ... more

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