"A Face in the Crowd" explores the tension between the solitary struggle of individuals and the anonymous and enormous crowds in which they live. The pieces tell the stories of prisoners, commuters, isolated fiddlers, activists, Vaux's swifts and monsters. Flutist Tessa Brinckman, violinist/violist Allyson Clare, trombonist Taylor Alan Peterson and myself perform works by Meredith Monk, Tessa Brinckman, Olivier Messiaen, Ted Hearne, Randy Woolf and Brian Mark accompanied by digital audio, and videos by Brian Mark, Miles Inada and Devyn McConachie.