Six months after 20 musicians/composers/sound artists met in Nida, Lithuania for the New Music Incubator, we reconvened in Oslo for the Ultima Contemporary Music Festival, which was also hosting the Nordic Music Days.
The International Clarinet Association’s annual ClarinetFest was held in Baton Rouge, Louisiana this year, and I was invited to perform Stockhausen’s “Solo für melodieinstrument und Rückkopplung”. The piece was written in 1966 for any melody instrument and delayed feedback. To perform it then required the assistance of at least four people to operate the different elements of the delay system, which include the recording, the playback, and the speakers. Using the software Max/MSP with my laptop, I’ve developed a patch so it can now be performed with a computer doing all these tasks. Harry Sparnaay, the pioneer of the modern bass clarinet, has even mentioned my performance in his book.