Electroclarinet 1 - Live in Shanghai
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I recorded my own performance of Electroclarinet 1 in Shanghai. This is the direct sound from the clarinet (do you see the wireless microphone on the picture?) and the live electronics.
![Jean-Francois Charles Electroclarinet 1 Clarinet Live Electronics](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixZ-grYxbL02UfSddaYVuh6Hk3CKx17LDAZwaDcsRXPDLRkjr9aX1aqcRrtR7TYFmLsgVQlL4Kmvuic53wyVxcRNg8tYnRzNsbN3kiwvUQD-FUKKpG1cjay_v0laHsNlIYIKZn3P835XOI/s400/jfc-electroclarinet1.jpg)
Shanghai, October 20th, 2009. Hope you like the white clarinet bell!
Picture by a member of the festival's organization.
Check the program notes on this announcement.
Frozen sounds in Electroclarinet 1
It's winter, and although it's not too cold in Cambridge today, it's a good time to talk about audio freeze (the equivalent of frozen frames in video). We can hear two different versions of frozen sounds in this composition:
- from 2:50 to 3:50, several tremolos (sometimes arpeggios) are immediately frozen, and followed most of the time by a melodic phrase.
- from 4:48, a high pitch (concert A) is frozen. Later, notes are added to this sound, building into a chord. The first note is added at 5:00, then 5:03, etc. The ice is melting at 5:26, when the frozen chord undergoes a long descending glissando.
I wish you a great - & warm - new year!
hahah happy new year
ReplyDeleteonly audio no video???not enough!
this picture increase my interest of shanghai ...send chen's email 2 me thanks!
uh...you control it all by foot??
ReplyDeletei want to try it in max.
Yes, the only controllers I used in this piece are a pedal ("expression pedal") and a double foot switch. One of the switches was used to trigger the next patch/preset/effect, as you want to call it. There was no other controller, indeed.
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