Risonanze for Clarinet & Electronics

Risonanze was composed in the summer of 2016. The title (in Italian because I have had a base there for some time) means ‘resonances’ or, in the literal way I have used it here, ‘re-soundings’ which occur after the clarinet soloist plays, or at the same time, by way of multiple delays allied to pitch shifters or multiple pitch shifters. Then there is the ‘freeze’ reverb where the soloist’s staccato notes are prolonged and built up into ‘chords’ which are then sampled to form the basis of new, bell or gong-like, inharmonic timbres. In fact, every sound you hear in this work is derived, directly or indirectly, from the sound of a clarinet. Also, ‘pre-echoes’ of fragments from later in the piece can be heard superimposed on the live clarinet part, most noticeably towards the end of the first part. Finally, particularly at the beginning of the second section, we hear very faint ‘overtones’, derived from routing the soloist’s sound through several pitch shifters, transforming the timbre of the solo clarinet’s long, sustained notes.

Follow the clarinet part and listen here,

Download clarinet parts (gratis) here;