chatterbird Presents Liminal Highway

The growth of Nashville’s alt-classical scene over the past five years has brought us a slew of opportunities to experience some of what’s on the cutting edge of art music, and it’s not slowing down now. Throughout the week, composer Christopher Cerrone (one of the six members of the Sleeping Giant collective and a 2014 Pulitzer Prize finalist) will be working with Nashville’s own ensemble chatterbird, culminating in a concert of Cerrone’s works on Thursday. The program includes the titular Liminal Highway for Flute and Electronics, in which one performer’s efforts provide melody, harmony and rhythm; “I Will Learn to Love a Person” and “South Catalina” for chamber ensemble; and “Double Happiness,” for piano, percussion and electronics. One thread uniting the works is the creation of shimmering clouds of high-register pitches that ring, swell and pulse, and that might make for an interesting perspective on the host’s paintings — the show takes place in the East Nashville studio of Ed Nash, whose work includes abstracts and landscape paintings, mixed-media pieces inspired by terrain textures and more. STEPHEN TRAGESER