Basilica Hudson hosts "The Days Pass Quickly Immersed in the Shadow of Eternity," a new composition by experimental musician Lea Bertucci performed with early music flutist Norbert Rodenkirchen, with an opening set from composer and media artist Olivia Block.
April 19 | Hudson, NY | 6:30pm
On Sunday, April 19, Basilica Hudson hosts "The Days Pass Quickly Immersed in the Shadow of Eternity," a new composition by experimental musician Lea Bertucci performed with early music flutist Norbert Rodenkirchen, with an opening set from composer and media artist Olivia Block.
Rodenkirchen has spent decades collecting flutes that span from Neolithic bone instruments through Medieval and Renaissance examples, instruments rarely heard in any contemporary context. Bertucci recorded sustained tones and melodic fragments from five of them—a Medieval Traverso, Swan Bone, Sheep Bone, Renaissance Tenor, and Renaissance Bass—and built those recordings into an eight-channel speaker array that fills the room with layered, drifting sound. Rodenkirchen then plays live against and within that diffused field, ancient improvisation expanding and contracting across the space.
Rodenkirchen has been the flute player of the internationally acclaimed medieval ensemble Sequentia since 1996, and has performed at Lincoln Center, the London Proms, and festivals across Europe and Australia. Bertucci is a New York-based experimental musician. She has performed at MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum, Pioneer Works, and the Muziekgebouw Amsterdam, and founded her own label, Cibachrome Editions. The piece premiered at ZKM in Karlsruhe in November 2025 and is a recipient of the 2023 Gigahertz Prix.
Opening the evening is Olivia Block, a Chicago-based composer and media artist whose discography spans nearly thirty years and whose recent live work focuses on long experimental songs for voice, piano, and electronics.
Basilica Hudson, 110 South Front Street, Hudson, NY.
