Chaya Czernowin: A Strange Bridge Toward Engagement

Like many composers today, Chaya Czernowin is not attached to any one place and her trans-nationality informs her outlook more than any specific geographical roots. And her seeming aloofness from personal roots has led to an unusually omnivorous music, even by today's standards. While she admits that the work she creates might in part be the result of having lived all over the world, there is no clear trajectory for how her music has evolved or how it should be perceived. In fact, she does not want her music to be understood immediately and is very wary of the belief that artistic creations should be accessible. But that doesn't mean that she wants to be hermetically sealed off from audiences either, although she acknowledges that her path is "a strange bridge to go."

The full article is available at: http://www.newmusicbox.org/article.nmbx?id=6953

Video presentation by Molly Sheridan

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