Klarinet Archive - Posting 000877.txt from 2001/10

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] Speculation (Bassett Soliloquies)
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 12:09:11 -0500

On Sun, 28 Oct 2001 10:25:12 GMT, I said:

> A very effective one of those multiphonics, though some people find it
> rather difficult to obtain, is the one ISTR sometimes required by
> Xenakis, involving a quite radical mouth position applied to a low A
> fingering. This solution has the advantage that you can concentrate
> a lot of the energy of the sound into the E under discussion, so it does
> sound quite like the written pitch, though the bottom A is still
> present. The effect is quite metallic and 'honky', but you can get it
> at various dynamics.

It would have been clearer if I'd said, there are a lot of multiphonics
with this fingering. Indeed, you can gliss between them to good effect.

But the one I'm talking about is the lowest one, and it has a sort of
'locked in' quality to it, and with the E quite prominent, because the
other higher frequencies seem to support it.

Tony
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