Date: Sunday, October 30, 2022

Time: 7pm

Artist(s): John McCowen

Location:  Hangar Arts Co

John McCowen will perform solo works for contrabass clarinet. These works showcase the contrabass clarinet as a polyphonic instrument. By finessing the instrument’s sonic spectrum, a language based in the natural harmonics of a cylinder is developed. Put simply, the music features multiple, independent moving lines from one acoustic sound source. With specific microphone placement, the listener is brought inside the instrument. There are no electronically generated sounds. This is acoustic music.

Short Bio:  John McCowen is a composer/clarinetist focused on extending the possibilities of the contrabass clarinet and other instruments. John’s multiphonic approach embraces drones, difference tones, and beating harmonics as a means to extrude the compositional potential within a single, acoustic sound source. He currently resides in Reykjavik, Iceland where he teaches improvisation at the Iceland University of the Arts.