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Saturations (Music for 19 Clarinets)

by Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard

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Music for 19 Clarinets 15:47
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Music for 19 Bass Clarinets 15:50
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Saturations is music for an ensemble consisting of 19 clarinet players.

Boomkat Product Review:

"Psychedelic sonic alchemy from Danish multidisciplinary artist Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard featuring a choir of 19 clarinets. Absolutely singular stuff that's honestly quite unlike anything we've heard before: sometimes terrifying psychoacoustic drone that's both futuristic and strangely historical.

'Saturations' is a composition that's intended to investigate sound's potential for transformation. Løkkegaard cites the phenomena of being in a noisy, crowded room and listening to a conversation up close, before stepping away and hearing the roomful of talking melt into a single throbbing drone bereft of words and language. He recreates this by multiplying sound, here using 19 clarinets playing the same note, allowing the phasing of that note to create sonic variations and subtle tonal shifts.

This is heady stuff that fits neatly alongside Important releases from artists like Pauline Oliveros, ELEH and Harry Bertoia. Løkkegaard uses natural resonance to force a level of deep listening that makes these long pieces effortlessly engrossing. The first side hones in on the clarinet's almost choral upper register and the flip on the bass clarinet's monastic hum. Both compositions utilise similar techniques, but reflect the differences in texture and vibration when the register is shifted. Really next level stuff."

About:
Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard (b. 1979) considers his work to be a basic research in realities working within the domains of imaginary & physical sound as well as other non-sonic media. Since 2012 Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard has experimented with creating music that lets the instruments transcend their inherent sonic (Westernized) norms and reappear in another form by way of multiplication of sound.

His work with multiplication of sound has led to numerous compositions in which one instrument is multiplied a number of times. His work includes a composition for 9 pianos, another for 10 hi-hats and yet another for countless triangles and so on....

The multiplication brings out bodily timbral phenomena, interference of sound waves and vibrations, evoking what Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard calls the sound’s "potential of transformation." He describes this as the quality in a musical piece when you no longer hear recognizable instruments and the individual sound, as well as the individual musician, is dissolved into the whole.

A sonic as well as human synthesis.

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released July 14, 2021

Clarinet choir:

Albert Raft
Jesper Løvdal
Franscesco Bigoni
Pernille Bévort
Kasper Wagner
Anders Havshøj
Bo Skjold Christensen
Kristoffer Nybye
Vincent Pongracz
Morten Lohmann Sønderskov Jensen
Birgit Bøgh Sønderriis
Jeppe Højgaard
Tine Vitkov
Jeppe Skjold
Torben Snekkestad
Magnus Thuelund
Jeppe Zacho
Karen Duelund Guastavino
Anders Banke

Recorded on November 8th 2016 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Composed and conducted by Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard
Cover: Nullary Sum (2019) by Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard
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Originally released by Important Records

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