Mandible Vestige

Mandible Vestige is a piece for solo Bassoon and Electronics that explores themes found in post-mortem forensic dentistry, the identification of whole or fragmented bodies through the examination of dental artifacts.

Sonic artifacts are unearthed and examined as the piece unfolds with each bassoonist's unique interpretation, breath control, instrumental resonance, and embouchure evoking the decay, cavities, enamel, excisions, fractures, grafts and residue that further define dental formations used in identifications.

Plasma Veil

Program Notes:

Plasma Veil is an open form microtonal work for Double Bass with Low C Extension. The piece is written in the Extended Helmholtz-Ellis Extended JI Pitch Notation and incorporates an 11 limit just intoned scordatura of the instrument.

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To disguise a form

To camouflage an embodiment

To enclose a forgery 

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Please see the youtube caption for the full program notes.