First of all, if you need fingering charts, or would like to download the original files, just send me an email. I have a google drive with most of my recordings (way more than can fit in this playlist) with fingering charts, notes about what I’m doing whilst playing and so on, and I can share it with you.

I haven’t notated the pitch content of each sound, so if you want to know pitches and can’t identify them, just write me as well.

In general regarding notation - just write me, I can check again for you, make some more recordings, because in a lot of these sounds I’m exploring a spectrum, there’s a lot of processes happening at once.

If you want to sample these sounds, be my guest, just write me and I’ll send you them.

Now regarding the sounds: I grouped them by each project I did, shown with different photos, and some nicknames I gave each sound.

Dyads: high partials from strange fingerings, they are very pretty

‘Overtones’: generally speaking I am overblowing notes from the low register, opening the RH1 and LH1 (so pointing finger) of each hand a tiny bit.

‘Environments’: what I did here was go through every sort of ‘change’ I could think of on one single fingering, to demonstrate how flexible bassoon multiphonics can be.

‘Transformation’: I’m moving often only within one fingering, or between a couple - most of the change occurs due to air pressure, air speed, and embochure changes.

‘Exploration’: in these I stayed within one fingering.

‘Olivia_Elective’ etc.: these files are a bit different, I basically wanted to see what would happen when keys are opened and shut on the instrument, one key at a time - so it explores the transitions between each fingering. I have a big nasty excel sheet and audio folder with all the permutations… but I just put some highlights here!

‘Bisb’: bisbigliando. I added in a couple, as we say, for the craic!