A double bass and a bass clarinet
trace the meeting points between gesture, sound, and presence. The works involved explore the relationship between improvisation and notation. The composer’s body. The improviser’s body. How instrumentalists connect to each other and how they connect to the composer at a given moment of performance. In works by Angharad Davies, Jürg Frey, and Scott McLaughlin, as well as an improvisation, sound emerges not only from the instruments, but also from the spaces between the performers.
