Spectral immersions
Subtitle: a comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of bass clarinet multiphonics
By: Sarah Watts
Publisher: Metropolis
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Ruisbroek-Puurs
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
Subjects: Bass clarinet; Multiphonics; Instruction and study; Bassklarinette; Klarinettenspiel; Instrumentaltechnik
Notes: "Spectral immersions is a groundbreaking, multi-component, comprehensive research into the area of bass clarinet multiphoncs. This resource addresses all of the past problems that have arisen with multiphonic usage in composition and, by means of a complete investigation and reanalysis, has take a step towards correcting these problems and thus encouraged composers to regain lost confidence in this technique. This is a project that looks at and reanalyses past charts and their probles, analyses previously uncharted fingering combinations using up-to-date technology and commissions and records new works. The intention of this project is to have a final outcome which will mean that composer can successfully explore the use of multiphoncs in a variety of different ways in their music and also that both composers and performers will have an accurate publication to refer to and use in the future."--Back cover.

Includes accompanying computer disc with fingering diagrams and MP3 files of multiphonics; also includes audio disc with performances of 8 complete works for solo bass clarient employing multiphonics, plus excerpts from 4 additional works for bass clarinet and piano.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-233).
Table of contents: title: Quarter sounds / Marc Yeats ( 8:34); title: Geometry of air / Iain Matheson (4:36); title: Airway / Gareth Churchill (4:20); title: Sybil / Antony Clare (4:55); title: Mi cantare! / Miroslav Spasov (5:26); title: Three days on the road / Sohrab Oduman (4:13); title: Multiphonics study / Victor Baez (6:05); title: Screapadal / Sarah Watts (13:00); title: Excerpts from Her sister's Notebook / Lola Perrin (7:34), Pareidolia / Patrick Nunn (2:04), Darkness visible / George Nicholson (2:52), Timeless shades of green / Stephen Davismoon (2:28).