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ReFLEctrion/reFREction/difFRAction [2016/Rev.2019]
for Clarinet (Trombone) with Live Electronics
Supported by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Elektroakustische Musik
Instrumentations: Bass Clarinet OR Trombone
World Premiere: September 2019 || Kontakte’19, Berlin, Germany
Dries Tack
Duration: 14 minutes
Concerts history
Samuel Dunscombe, May, 2016 in San Diego, USA
Samuel Dunscombe, June, 2016 in San Diego, USA
Szilard Benes from Schallfeld for aNother Festival, May, 2019, Vienna, Austria
Samuel Dunscombe for ZKM Next generation 0.8, June, 2019, Karlsruhe, Germany
Rocio Bolanos from Distractfold for Kontake’19, September, 2019, Berlin, Germany
Dries Tack from Curious Chamber Players, November, 2019, Ghent, Belgium
Szilard Benes from Schallfeld for Sound of Stockholm, November, 2019, Stockholm, Sweden
Szilard Benes from Schallfeld, November, 2019, Vienna, Austria
KNM Berlin for KNM Contemporaries 20, December, 2020, Berlin, Germany
Dries Tack from Curious Chamber Players, March, 2021, Brussel, Belgium
Kevin Toksöz Fairbairn, October 2021, Hannover, Germany
This piece is an explorative world of extended techniques that deconstruct the bass clarinet and its methodological musical practice, and amplify the role of the performer’s body and traditional musical meaning. Its unique sound world is dramatically refracted and reimagined through the live electronics, run by the composer. This piece is a “comprovisational” piece for Bass Clarinet with Live Electronics. The piece is composed to resist the linguistic way of conventional structure and frame in order to represent a stream of consciousness/unconsciousness/preconsciousness. It opens a psychological dialogue that invites the listener into a liminal space, between the worlds of inner and outer action, inward emotion and outward engagement, and what is personal and social. I believe that this process of psychological interaction will allow for a musical realization of images of mental state, with their inherent emotional conflict and ambivalence. In terms of sounding layers, the vocalization and the bass clarinet with live processing and computer generating sound represent the psyche’s parts of the conscious, preconscious and unconscious. Conceptually, there will be substantial contrast between each psyche’s parts of the concepts, which are intertwined, competing, and overlapping, in order to create a state of confusion that represents the conflicting aspects of the mindset.
Hunjoo Jung 