INSIDE OUT (clarinet trio)

Composed at the Banff Centre for the Arts, this work is inspired by the “chamber music theatre” of French composer Georges Aphergis. The clarinetists who attempt this piece should know their instruments “inside-out.” They are required to alter the pitch with the embouchure, play alternate fingerings, multiphonics, sing while playing, and stamp their feet (in frustration perhaps)! This piece explores resonance and melodic concepts that appear in many of my works of this period. The structural alternation of textural and “avant-garde” techniques with more plaintive material is treated somewhat freely in this work.