Klarinet Archive - Posting 000413.txt from 2002/07

From: w8wright@-----.net (William Wright)
Subj: [kl] Jackdaw (genuine) for bass clarinet
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 23:55:26 -0400

<><> Rien=A0Stein wrote:
Recently I was with a recital by Harry Sparnaay, one of the worlds
leading bass clarinet players I think. He played a very beautiful piece,
"The Jackdaw" I think it was called (I forgot the composer's name).

The composer's name is Wayne Siegel. The method of composition may
surprise you.

There a list of Siegel's works (opera, computer music, percussion, a
fairly long list) at http://www.daimi.aau.dk/~wsiegel/works.html.

It's only coincidence that you should mention 'Jackdaw' just as I posted
about orca songs, but here's what the web page (above) has to say about
"Jackdaw":

Cheers,
Bill

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Jackdaw for bass clarinet and computer was commissioned by Harry
Sparnaay with financial support from the Danish Art Council and
premiered at the Musiana 95 festival in Denmark. A jackdaw is a small,
European crow, and the character of the piece as well as many of the
sounds are inspired by this audacious yet clever bird. Since I have a
tame, pet jackdaw, I was able to record the bird under perfect
conditions. Many of the sounds played by the computer consist of these
recordings processed by the computer, such as jackdaw cries filtered by
the formant of a bass clarinet or long bird calls stretched to 10 times
their original length using the phase vocoder. Bass clarinet sounds
sampled and processed by the computer and computer controlled live
processing that change the sound of the instrument during performance
are also used. As the composition progressed my hunch was confirmed: the
jackdaw and the bass clarinet are related!

Jackdaw has been performed widely by Harry Sparnaay in Europe and South
America. Versions for bass clarinet and tape and for baritone saxophone
and tape are also available.

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