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June 30. Open Ear at LSO St. Luke’s with Apartment House
July 14. LSO SoundHub Concert, music by Robin Haigh, Lillie Harris, Yvonne Eccles and Nick Morrish
July 15. Cheltenham Festival with Scott Wilson, Xenia Pestova and Carla Rees – new pieces by student composers of the festival for clarinet, flute, piano and electronics
August 13. Another Timbre Canadian Composers Release Party with Apartment House at Cafe Oto, London.
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Tag Archives: contemporary clarinet techniques
More techniques for a mouthpiece-less bass clarinet
Most of these techniques I’ve covered already, in my post on clarinet articulation. If you look there you’ll find information on tongue rams without the mouthpiece (and with, for that matter), flute embouchure (which only works – for me – … Continue reading
…on double trills for Bb clarinet
This page is currently undergoing a two-phase reboot. The first phase (now completed) involved remaking all of the image files, fixing any errors I’ve found over the years, tidying up the audio files, and adding proper fingering diagrams (rather than … Continue reading
Posted in clarinet techniques, double trills, dyads, multiphonic, on composing for the clarinet, performance, trill, trills
Tagged clarinet, clarinet techniques, collaboration, composers, contemporary clarinet technique, contemporary clarinet techniques, contemporary music, double trills, new music, techniques
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…on clarinet articulation
Bit of a monster post for you today, so I won’t waste too much time in introducing it. Basically I’m going to cover all the different ways the tongue and throat can be involved when playing the clarinet. From the basics … Continue reading
Posted in articulation, clarinet techniques, double tongue, flute embouchure, flutter tongue, multiphonic, on composing for the clarinet, shaking, slap tongue, spectral multiphonic, tongue ram, trumpet embouchure
Tagged articulation, bass clarinet, clarinet, clarinet articulation, clarinet techniques, collaboration, composers, contemporary clarinet technique, contemporary clarinet techniques, contemporary music, new music, tonguing
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…on using the register key
Something that’s started to interest me recently when it comes to clarinet writing and collaboration with composers, is the generation of material. I love these long collaborative meetings where you just sit together and generate material for its own sake. And … Continue reading
Posted in clarinet techniques, multiphonic, on composing for the clarinet, performance, register key, trill
Tagged bass clarinet, clarinet, collaboration, composers, contemporary clarinet technique, contemporary clarinet techniques, contemporary music, multiphonics, new music, register key, trills
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…on soprano clarinet glissandi
Clarinet glissandi are fun. But they’re quite hard to understand for composers, because they aren’t easy in all registers and what individual performers can or can not do affects a lot. This post won’t necessarily be comprehensive, but as with … Continue reading
