Contrabass Clarinet

Décombres(2006) for contrabass clarinet and electronic. Alain Billard, clarinet

Dark ambient approach to Sylvia Plath's Poem "Sheep in Fog." Featuring an improvisation by SnowOmen: https://soundcloud.com/snow_omen/glasswork-nr-3. Music VSS (electric guitar, percussion, effect pedals, unsynchronized loops, voice, two tube amps) & SnowOmen (4 hands, 8 glasses, water, table). Mixing and production: VSS. Image: Miniature installation (photo: VSS). 

Sylvia Plath: Sheep in Fog (1962/63)

The hills step off into whiteness.
People or stars
Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.

The train leaves a line of breath.
O slow
Horse the cololur of rust,

Hooves, dolorous bells - 
All morning the 
Morning has been blackening,

A flower left out.
My bones hold a stillness, the far
Fields melt my heart.

They threaten
To let me through to a heaven
Starless and fatherless, a dark water.

Dark Water

Entering the tunnels of Kassel Wilhelmshöhe the fog has gone.

Epilogue 24-12-08

Artist: The Bad Synth
Release Title: Correction Ep
Catalog: EXPBC029
Release: 2024-12-26

The Bad Synth - Walkthrough (Preview)

This is an attempt to make something with a Roland S-1. Usually just make stuff on my laptop.

CBD Dad

A remix of the deeply hypnotic Umoth by encym - https://soundcloud.com/encym/sets/umoth - It was a privilege to be able work with these sounds. Check out more of encym's work here: https://soundcloud.com/encym

Umoth - encym - applicant remix

Negs

Excerpts from the original creation for Körkarlen (The Phantom Carriage) Cine-concert premiere on February 9, 2025 at the Champs Libres auditorium, Rennes, as part of the Travelling Festival : https://dimanche.rennes.fr/evenement/un-dimanche-travelling-la-charrette-fantome-snowdrops-fr
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The Phantom Carriage by Victor Sjöström (1921 - 108 min) // Original music composed by Snowdrops between December 2024 and January 2025 // Christine Ott : Ondes Martenot, Piano, Harp // Mathieu Gabry : Piano, Keyboards, BAB // Co-production Clair Obscur, Musée de Bretagne, Mimiladoré. In partnership with Les Tombées de la Nuit.

Körkarlen (excerpts)

Cherry Bombs

Sasayaka

Performed by members of Ensemble Intercontemporain
Odile Auboin, viola
Emmanuelle Ophèle, bass flute
Eric-Maria Couturier, cello
Alain Billard, contrabass clarinet
Recorded live at Philharmonie Essen on October 25th, 2015


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We met as Sparks — Diverging Flints
Sent various — scattered ways —
We parted as the Central Flint
Were cloven with an Adze —
Subsisting on the Light We bore
Before We felt the Dark —
A Flint unto this Day — perhaps —
But for that single Spark.

Emily Dickinson, 958

We met as Sparks (2015) for bass flute, contrabass clarinet, viola and cello [Excerpt]

Metal contrabass clarinet : Alain Billard
Ensemble intercontemporain conducted by Susanna Mälkki
Electronic : Yann Robin / Robin Meier / IRCAM


Art of Metal III (2008, 25'), for metal contrabass clarinet, ensemble and electronic

Metal contrabass clarinet : Alain Billard
World premiere 
Espace de Projection, Ircam, Paris

Art Of Metal II (2007, 11')

Live in Freiburg 08 Septembre 2016

for Soprano and Contrabass Clarinet

Live in Freiburg

Mélodie / Marc MONNET

“Cluster” is a music series devoted to sound investigation with a particular focus on contemporary languages, new music and extended techniques. “Cluster” supports the collaborative work and aims to offer an exchange platform for musicians, composers and electronic music performers in Berlin-Treptow.

Composed by Franco Donatoni
Performed by Ingólfur Vilhjálmsson
Recorded on November 11 2018 at Labor Neunzehn in Berlin

Franco Donatoni, Ombra II (for contrabass clarinet)

YOUTUBE MUSIC VIDEO LINK:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIMLA6wzG4M

We met as Sparks (2015) for bass flute, contrabass clarinet, viola and cello [Excerpt]

Franck Bedrossian

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