Author Archives: heatherroche

10 Female Composers You Should Know (and their clarinet pieces)

Posted on May 3, 2017

I noticed that this was making the rounds on Twitter again this morning, and I thought that since those women are all deceased, and most of them working before the clarinet was a viable instrument to write for, I’d come … Continue reading →

Posted in advice, clarinet history, collaboration, on collaboration & composition, performance | 10 Comments

Altissimo Quarter Tone Studies

Posted on February 23, 2017

One for the bass clarinet players today… I was working on writing up some short exercises to help with working on the altissimo, particularly quarter tones, and thought that actually these might be useful for any advanced bass clarinet students … Continue reading →

Posted in clarinet techniques, how-to, quarter tones | 2 Comments

new hand werk CD – kurzwelle

Posted on February 21, 2017

hand werk has a new CD out today — kuzwelle — and you can stream/download it on bandcamp. Four great new pieces by Francisco C. Goldschmit, Max-Lukas Hundelshausen, Elnaz Seyedi and Matthias Krüger. This project was made possible by ON … Continue reading →

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contrabass clarinet mouthpiece and neck

Posted on February 18, 2017

Just a fun little contrabass clarinet-related post for you today, but a few nice sounds here, just using the mouthpiece (with reed) and the neck of the contrabass clarinet. (Again, I play a paperclip, so these techniques are only applicable … Continue reading →

Posted in bending, contra, multiphonic, performance | 1 Comment

Multiphonics – one note at a time

Posted on February 17, 2017

I’ve done a guest post for The Sampler, the UK’S “leading online destination for new music” on writing multiphonics, specifically how to think about writing multiphonics that enter one note at a time. I talk about multiphonics like this one … Continue reading →

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