Our Virtual Resonance Chamber Series is evolving into the digital space, and launches on Saturday, September 12 at 7:30 pm with Electroacoustic Entomology: a flute recital exploring bugs in computers, people, and nature featuring rockstar flutist Lindsey Goodman!
Program:
Evan Williams: if/else for flute and interactive electroacoustics (2017)
Mara Helmuth: Butterfly Within for flute and computer (2006)
Elainie Lillios: Among Fireflies for flute and live, interactive electroacoustics (2010)
Lindsey Goodman, flute, alto flute, and electronics
Whether we experience a computer glitch, catch an unexpected illness, or encounter insects in nature, bugs are all around us. Join internationally-acclaimed soloist, recording artist, and Resonance Works flutist and board member Lindsey Goodman for “Electroacoustic Entomology”, a 30-minute flute recital exploring bugs in computers, people, and nature. Featuring works by living American composers Evan Williams, Mara Helmuth, and Elainie Lillios, “The Electroacoustic Flutist” will explore computer coding, cancer recovery, and fields of lightning bugs through the intersection of the ancient flute and modern technology.
Flutist Lindsey Goodman is a soloist, recording artist, chamber collaborator, orchestral musician, educator, and clinician. Renowned for her “generous warmth of tone and a fluid virtuosity” (Charleston Gazette), Lindsey has performed solo and chamber concerts, taught masterclasses, and given presentations at countless series, festivals, and universities “with energy and artistry, conveying her exuberance and creativity” (Pittsburgh in the Round). Performances “played with conviction” (New York Times) have been heard across three continents, including at Carnegie Hall, Eastman School of Music, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Google headquarters, University of Cincinnati College– Conservatory of Music, several National and Canadian Flute Association conventions, across China, and on Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone.
A committed advocate for living composers and electroacoustic music, Lindsey “appears to know no fear in tackling the most demanding music” (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review) and is an active commissioner of new works with 150 world premieres to her credit. For over 18 seasons, she performed as solo flutist of the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble. On her debut
solo album, reach through the sky (New Dynamic Records), Lindsey “performs impeccably with superlative elegance and flair”, and her second solo release, returning to heights unseen (PARMA Recordings), is “an excellent album of compelling works expertly performed”. Both feature all commissioned pieces. Her third solo album, Etereo (PARMA Recordings), is "an enthralling album of new works for flute.” (The Flute View), and she can also be heard in solo, chamber, vocal, and orchestral performances on the New World, Albany, New Focus, and Navona labels, among others. Lindsey has given multiple professional recitals in New York City, performed concertos from Mozart to commissioned works in the United States and Canada, and been featured in live and recorded radio broadcasts on stations around the world.
Lindsey is principal flutist of the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, adjunct lecturer of flute at Ashland University, Marietta College, and West Virginia State University, and solo flutist of the new music ensemble What Is Noise. She is a founding member of flute quartet PANdemonium4, the Leviathan Trio (flute, cello, and piano), and Chrysalis, a singing flutist and singing pianist duo, showcasing her training as a classical mezzo-soprano. A student of Robert Langevin and Walfrid Kujala, Lindsey received degrees from the Manhattan School of Music, Northwestern University, and Duquesne University. She resides in central Ohio with her husband, percussionist, composer, and educator Chris Carmean, and their dog Jack. www.LindseyGoodman.com