Eshareh (for Flute and Fixed Media)

Composer: Soheil Shirangi
Year of Creation: 2025
Performer: Lisa Bost
Performance: April 4, 2025 — Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame Concert Series, Vox Novus Festival – 15 Years of New Music, Kansas City Kansas Community College

Eshareh—meaning “a passing reference” or “a brief indication” in Persian—was inspired by a fleeting thought found in one of my personal diaries. The work seeks to narrate something that almost disappears as it is spoken: a reflection, a memory, or a feeling just beyond reach. The flute interacts with fixed media in a delicate dialogue, moving between sound and silence, gesture and echo. Through subtle phrasing and resonance, Eshareh becomes an intimate meditation on transience—the beauty of what is sensed, but never fully grasped.