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. 

Flow Through

To mark the 20th Anniversary of the Esplanade Association’s successful public-private partnership with the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR), the Esplanade Association (EA) will present “Hatched: Breaking through the Silence,” a four week illumination and sound experience to provide a family-friendly and physically-distant celebration at the famed Hatch Memorial Shell. “Hatched” will cut through the darkness of the winter months, offering a public space for joy and optimism in the New Year. The work is an original 15-minute visual and sound performance led by Boston-based creative Maria Finkelmeier of MF Dynamics and is shaped specifically for the 80-year-old amphitheater itself.

The projection-mapped visuals for Hatched will celebrate the many sounds that Hatch Memorial Shell performers have expressed over the facility’s impressive musical history. Finkelmeier and her team will feature geometric shapes of musical instruments as kaleidoscope pieces, human hands magically tapping, scratching, and creating beats on the surface itself, and colorful animations accentuating the Shell’s Art Deco form – all set to new music composed by Finkelmeier and recorded by local musicians. Featuring a team of predominantly female-identifying artists and directors, Hatched will bring to light a balanced pedestal, an opportunity for underrepresented communities to “break through” and share their skills, vision, and voice.

Powered by Epson laser projectors, “Hatched” will bring vibrant color and form to the inner surface of the Hatch Shell. With custom-built weather housing for the projectors, the experience presents a rare opportunity to experience projection mapping in the winter months and will bring joy no matter the New England winter weather.

Hatched: Breaking Through the Silence

Empowering imagination and relaxation through music, Project Daydream is an experience by Maria Finkelmeier with Timothy Hall. The 30 minute work features voice, marimba, saxophone and electronic music elements while discovering the reverberation and shadows of Boston’s iconic Cyclorama. Through five segments, listeners are encouraged to explore their breath, their joy, their support system, and their own mantra. The music will support relaxation by infusing repetitive phrases, heartbeat rhythms, and soaring melodies with hypnotic visuals by Allison Tanenhaus. The program flow, developed in collaboration with Susie Lovett of Hands to Heart Center, takes listeners on a journey from a space of personal reflection to collective rejuvenation.

This project is made possible by the Celebrity Series of Boston and a grant from the Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture of the City of Boston. 

Music and Direction By: Maria Finkelmeier
Performed by: Maria Finkelmeier & Timothy Hall
Guided Meditation and Consulting by: Susie Lovett of Hands to Heart Center
Projected Visuals by: Allison Tanenhaus
Vintage Lamps made by: Karim Badwan
Additional lamps donated by: Zhanea Nicholson and Nancy Rodriguez
Videography and Editing: The Loop Lab
Video Assistant Direction by: Katie Medrano-Escobar 
Community Partner: Celebrity Series Boston 
Venue Partner: Boston Center for the Arts

Project Daydream

A bridge represents what is no longer the edge, where travel and ideas formerly stopped, but now have a path. For Blink Cincinnati 2019, the Roebling Bridge was transformed by a hyper-synchronized light and sound score, connecting two state and celebrating the vision of the Queen City. 

“Rumble - A Contemporary Voice for the Bridge That Sings” 
Commissioned by Blink Cincinnati 2019, conceived by Brave Berlin, produced by Masary Studios 

The John A. Roebling Bridge
Cincinnati, OH & Covington, KY
 
Music and Light Score: Maria Finkelmeier & Ryan Edwards
Project Manager: Maria Finkelmeier 
Technical Direction: Ryan Edwards 
Lighting Engineers: Vincent Lighting Systems 
In collaboration with: Brave Berlin

Video by Snow, with additional footage by Aram Boghosian
Video music by Maria Finkelmeier