Flow Through
Boston, Massachusetts
2018
Flow Through is a 15 minute work composed and directed by Maria Finkelmeier for large ensemble in a outdoor setting. Featuring 30 - 50 performers (brass players, singers, and percussionists), the work is inspired by the fluidity and importance of water to living organisms.
Flow Through reflects the power of this compound, bringing awe, serenity, catastrophe, and breath to our planet. It draws connections between the human spirit and natural world, creating a moment in which one cannot be without the other.
Premiered at and commissioned by the
Make Music Boston festival in 2018,
the musicians were place throughout the Charles River Esplanade, sounding in harmony with the Charles River as the sun set.
The work was then performed in collaboration with Fujiko Nakaya’s
Fog x FLO at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. The musicians were placed on the perimeter of Hunnewell Hillside, some starting on the path above, and descending to the open space, just as the fog ripples over the hillside, and others weaving in between listeners.
Audience members were welcome to sit and listen, or wander through the hillside as the sonic experience guided them.
