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Emphysema feathered his appetites (duos: bass clarinet, marimba with live electronics)

by Kitty Xiao (2020)

Audio Sample

Performance by Transient Canvas from the CD Selected Works by AMC Represented Artists, vol. 121.

Selected Works by AMC Represented Artists, vol. 121.

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CD

Selected Works by AMC Represented Artists, vol. 121.

Library shelf no. CD 3142 [Available for loan]

Work Overview

The work is inspired by Australian artist Dale Frank's series of paintings of the same name. The series of paintings offers the viewer "a portal to another place; a place that transcends the physical to encompass the psychological." For me, the paintings offer a place of wild imagination, a portal in which fears can be relinquished, and hunger can be replenished. Yet the paintings for me also showed me an introspective loneliness and sadness. I was interested in exploring polar states of interior and exterior. I wanted to create sounds which flowed between these two states, between solid and liquid, and colours which mixed and dripped into one another like the colours on the canvas.

Work Details

Year: 2020

Instrumentation: Bass clarinet, marimba & electronics.

Duration: 7 min.

Difficulty: Advanced

Commission note: Commissioned by the Red Note New Music Festival

First performance: by Transient Canvas — 12 Feb 20. Red Note New Music Festival, Kemp Recital Hall, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois USA

The electronics are to be performed with a click track for fixed media playback with stereo speakers.

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Performances of this work

12 Feb 20: Red Note New Music Festival, Kemp Recital Hall, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois USA. Featuring Transient Canvas.

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