Video
Version for bassoon and ambisonics
((NYT)) art space, Berlin
Audio
Version for bassoon and ambisonics
((NYT)) art space, Berlin
Video
Version for bassoon and ambisonics
Modulartx, Basel
je mets mon scaphandre
…a collaboration with composer John Aulich and light designer José del Avellanal Carreño.
Je mets mon scaphandre explores an indirect example of the ‘leaky body’ in the form of a concert-length work for bassoon, live electronics, and reactive lighting. The built-in spatialisation and ‘leaky’, unstable nature of the bassoon is brought into dialogue with this theory, amplified and translated with live electronics, and represented visually by a dynamic, live lighting system, which directly responds to the musical material.
supported by the IKF, Goethe-Institut, Hinrichsen Foundation
in collaboration with:
Upcoming performances of the final version for bassoon, ambisonics, and reactive lighting in Manchester, Edinburgh and Belfast mid October.
Artefact III
…for solo Kontraforte, part of a research project by composer Faidra Chafta-Douka, in collaboration with Olivia Palmer-Baker.
This piece is semi-improvised and graphically notated using a notation system developed by Faidra, and involves process as a core element. Through researching how contraforte responds to different intentions (pressure increases, changing internal space, micro-movements of keys, not listening/observing all sound and many other ways), these processes were organised to create a piece that explores the extremes of the Kontraforte.
Audio (V.3)
Artefact III (version 3) for solo Kontraforte
Detective Silence
…is the result of a collaboration between bassoonist Olivia Palmer-Baker and composer Arnau Brichs.
The first version of this piece - for bassoon and electronics - was premiered on the 27th August 2020 at the Royal Academy of Music, London.
This piece contains materials discovered from Olivia's personal research, inspired from the works of composer Pierluigi Billone. The live premiere of this final version for solo bassoon took place on the 11th June 2021 in Milan as part of the Divertimento Ensemble's 2021 season.
Any queries and questions regarding the bassoon techniques and materials explored in this piece are welcomed gladly via:
oliviapalmerbaker ( at ) gmail ( dot ) com