Resources
As a by-product of collaborations, I realised I have a bunch of recordings on my laptop created during the research process for various pieces.
I’ve had a few instances recently of people being surprised about some of these sounds and saying I should make my resources publicly available.
That will take some time to do it properly, so for now I thought I’d share some ‘highlights’ in a playlist below. These are archive recordings of varying quality from past research, but If you are curious, give it a listen, put it on shuffle, let yourself be surprised, maybe you might find a sound you like!
Bassoonists: if you want to try make similar sounds but don’t know where to start, drop me a message too!
Dyads: high partials from strange fingerings!
‘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!
If you have any questions about notation/pitch content, just write me!