Feedback (2016)

for clarinet. 5 min.

Featured in the Penn State New-Music Festival and Symposium 2021

During my undergraduate degree at Rutgers, my clarinet teacher, Dr. Maureen Hurd Hause, showed me the first multiphonic I ever heard, and it sounded like feedback from an amplifier. My life was changed for the better that day. I went on to attempt to learn some clarinet music from Eric Mandat and William O. Smith, like Mandat’s Preludes Book II and Smith’s Variants. After I got more comfortable with these techniques, I began incorporating them into my improvisations, which then ended in a piece for myself that used some of the techniques I learned from those composers and my teacher.

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