In its second concert since the group’s return from a three-year absence, the Dan Joseph Ensemble will perform a full program of the composer’s chamber works featuring the second hearing of his newest large-scale work Tonalization (for the afterlife). Completed in 2009, this new work for instrumental sextet continues to explore Joseph’s hybrid style. By far his largest work for the ensemble, Tonalization (for the afterlife) emphasizes the composer’s conception of “tone,” a notion he expresses through a continually varying timbral and rhythmic soundscape. Described by early listeners as “compelling,” “stunningly beautiful,” and “a grand form,” the work is dedicated to the memory of the late Suzanne Fiol, founder of Brooklyn’s Issue Project Room where the work premiered in March of this year. The program will also include two earlier ensemble works, Percussion and Strings (2004) and the Archaea Quartet (2001) both from the groups first recording Archaea (Mutable Music, 2006), and the flute and hammer dulcimer duo Wind Patterns (2002).