schemes that offer us a sense of futurity (2021) - for amplified soprano voice, flute, clarinet, violin, and electronics

TAK Ensemble: Charlotte Mundy, voice; Laura Cocks, flutes; Madison Greenstone, clarinets; Marina Kifferstein, violin
Recorded at Baryshnikov Arts Center, NYC, April 25, 2021
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photo credit Emiliano Zúñiga

schemes that offer us a sense of futurity

Environment, piece for symphonic orchestra with ensemble

Premiered at the Ostrava Days Festival 2021 by Ostrava New Orchestra (ONO)

Conductors: Jiří Rožeň, Ondřej Vrabec

Ensemble: Lucie Vítková - accordion, harmonica, voice and feedback, Jiří Havrlant - harpsichord, Daniel Skála - cimbalom, Daan Vandewalle, Alexandr Starý - piano, Kristýna Švihálková, Jan Nepodal - percussion

2. Lucie Vítková_Environment

https://www.nts.live/shows/the-nts-guide-to/episodes/cosmic-music-from-the-silk-road---folk-music-of-central-asia-11th-november-2021

Cosmic Music Of The Silk Road - Folk Music From Central Asia - 111121

The music of Mauritania comes predominantly from the country’s largest ethnic group: the Moors. The music is produced using traditional instruments which include an hourglass-shaped four-stringed lute called the tidinit and the ardin, a harp which is exclusively played by women. 

The music conforms to 3 different ways; Al-bayda (The White Way), Al-kahla (The Black Way)  and L’-gnaydiya (The Spotted Way). There are then 5 different modes; Karr (Youth), Fagu (beginning of the age of virility), Le-Khal (Maturity), Le-Byadh (Maturity) & Le-Btayt (Old Age). They also convey a series of feelings ranging from joy to sadness. 

Elements which are purely musical differentiate these modes, such as an accent or a series of different harmonies. Male players must respect th... 
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solo Bb clarinet, live
from FOUR CHAIRS IN THREE DIMENSIONS
new solo tape out soon on Astral Spirits

FOUR CHAIRS IN THREE DIMENSIONS

white trash

18.09.06 | Gaudeamus Muziekweek | Utrecht, Netherlands
Quatuor Bozzini, Dudok Kwartet, and Quatuor Alcea

The Innocence of Trees

Madison Greenstone: contrabass clarinet and electronics
Live @ ISSUE Project Room, opening for Mary-Margaret O'Hara and her band.
December 1st, 2018

On the materialization of perception- 
The electronics consist of a 1-minute loop of a contrabass clarinet multiphonic, which over the course of 24 minutes continuously (linearly) decelerates to ¼ of the original speed (or, the fundamental sinks 1 semitone every minute). As this deceleration occurs, the listener starts to hear lower frequencies pass out of audio range (below 20 Hz), and higher noisy beating in the spectrum turn into slowly pulsating clusters of frequencies as different regions of the spectra warp at different rates in relation to each other. Over the last 2 minutes, the loop slows to 1/32 of the original speed. Effectively every audible aspect of the original multiphonic sinks below the threshold of human hearing, passing through the region where frequencies are felt somatically and spatially rather than heard. The live contrabass clarinet intercepts the long descent at regular intervals, playing multiphonics whose spectra activate, and are activated by, the sinking carrier signal. Certain partials are amplified, create beating, and are masked depending on the contingencies of each signal’s spectral profile. Each physical position of the listener in the space registers a phenomenally different sonic experience- the propagation of the sounds’ waves in the room, the listener’s own subjective position, and the audiences own material capacity for absorbing and reflecting sound are all revealed as material inevitabilities.

Live at ISSUE Project Room – December 1st, 2018 – contrabass clarinet and electronics

for Anqi

metrostorm (2020)

Pauline Oliveros: "Music for Expo 70"

Two Butterflies Fly, The Cowbell is Ringing

2 Butterflies... Fly, The Cowbell Is Ringing

clarinets 


Madison is a member of TAK Ensemble, the [Switch~ Ensemble], and plays regularly in experimental music contexts. Solo practice mainly focused on wild, unruly, ecstatic, & polyphonic resonances of the acoustic clarinets, engaging in models of haptic and sensorial feedback paradigms. 

Upcoming releases:
Relative Pitch Records (spring 2023)

Live at ISSUE Project Room – December 1st, 2018 – contrabass clarinet and electronics

Madison Greenstone

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