Austrian clarinet duo Petra Stump and you can Heinz-Peter Linshalm are one such high light. Watching the job of your Libra Outfit when you look at the Melbourne quickly afterwards, I was struck because of the similar stylistic positioning of teams for the repertoire and you will method, each other emphasising the thing i telephone call ‘restriction modernism’ inside their official rigour, atonalism and getting rejected regarding American minimalism. Commonly you’re leftover with some fragmented, spiky body gestures, and additionally smaller, timbrel themes, squeals and you may short, isolated groups, one to show the very best of both the traditional use of instruments and startling longer approach. Much time areas of loud rounded breathing punctuated Stump-Linshalm’s to experience, while you are a specific happiness try composer Vinko Globokar’s solo getting trout clarinet in place of mouthpiece-a sparkling selection of clatters, growls, tubular gasping tunes and tongued stutters, generated increasingly outrageous because of the computer handling and you will reverb; almost a beneficial clarinet types of Kurt Schwitters’ well-known tangible poetry work, The latest Ur-Sonata.
