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Author: MichaelW
Date: 2016-08-06 20:29
So luckily Martin Fröst seems to have overcome his Menière issue. In the interview multiphonic technique and circular breathing are mentioned. Here a (rather basic) example from 2010. I wonder if he has developed multiphonics further since then:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOJ-fxmVwC4
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Author: seabreeze
Date: 2016-08-06 21:38
Martin Frost is a tremedous virtuoso soloist and an adventurous musician, but the critic is wrong to say he invented the technique of playing and singing at the same time. Jazz sax/flutist Roland Kirk, among others, was already doing this--often for entire choruses--on flute and, occassionally, on clarinet in the 1960s. Kirk was supremely multiphonic; sometimes he played two instruments at once, but even with just one instrument at a time, he still sounded like he was playing two or more; of course he was not a classical player. In the classical music world, flutist Robert Dick has set the standard for playing and humming multiple lines on a single voice wind instrument. I'm not sure any clarinetist, including multitalented Frost, has caught up with him in that kind of technique.
Post Edited (2016-08-07 04:25)
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Author: MichaelW
Date: 2016-08-07 14:05
Albert Mangelsdorff did it on trombone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnLwu7D0LZg
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Author: donald
Date: 2016-08-07 15:17
I've played a couple of pieces where I had to sing and play simultaneously- most reccently a piece called "Wyrd Sisters" by NZ composer Claire Scholes (we premiered this piece at Clarinetfest 2011 in LA). My flute playing colleagues don't regard this as an unusually difficult technique, though whether they can do it as well as Robert Dick or Rashan Roland Kirk is another matter (I know I can't, but then I've also never practised it much).
dn
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Author: D Dow
Date: 2016-08-08 19:49
Tenor player Illinois Jaquet was very good at growling and playing..not sure but every so often critics always say a piece of gibberish like that which set me off!
As for the meniere's it is a chronic condition with no cure..if it is in remission it will return. As for the review of his sound I have always had problems with Martin's tone...which seems to be quite shrill in the altissimo. But thats another arguement..and don't forget throat singing which has gone on since the stone age.
David Dow
Post Edited (2016-08-08 19:52)
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