{"id":8409,"date":"2020-05-22T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/blog\/lockdown-tape-11\/"},"modified":"2022-03-27T12:39:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-27T10:39:24","slug":"lockdown-tape-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/blog\/lockdown-tape-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockdown Tape #11"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Evan Johnson<\/strong> – Ground<\/em> (2010) for contrabass clarinet<\/p>\n

Carl Rosman, contrabass clarinet<\/p>\n

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“My work with Evan Johnson has been one of my most important collaborations for over a decade now \u2013 he didn\u2019t write\u00a0Ground<\/em>\u00a0for me, though, and it would have been a completely different piece if he had.<\/p>\n

Evan composed\u00a0Ground<\/em>\u00a0for Gareth Davis, as part of Davis\u2019 \u2018Standards Project\u2019, a series of solo works responding to jazz standards.\u00a0Ground<\/em>\u00a0features, as Evan points out in his programme note, \u2018virtually no audible snippets of the melody in question\u2019. The \u2018virtually\u2019 is important, though, as two climactic moments from the song are cited almost verbatim and the sinuous chromaticism of the original is present throughout \u2013 and, most importantly, the structure of\u00a0Stormy Weather\u00a0<\/em>is, as Evan puts it, \u2018faithfully retrace[d]\u2019.<\/p>\n

The title, though, refers not so much to jazz as to the Renaissance\/Baroque technique involving melodic variations over a repeating bass line \u2013 a technique sharing certain preoccupations with jazz, many of whose most famous examples (Purcell, Monteverdi\u2026) are, like\u00a0Stormy Weather<\/em>, laments for female voice. The Baroque references go further: on pitch structures abstracted from the song, Evan superimposes layers of ornamentation, both characteristically Baroque (trills, turns, mordents) and rather less so (bursts of flutter-tongue, breath sound, vocalisations, brief squeaks caused by placing the teeth directly on the reed). Sometimes the \u2018ornamental\u2019 layer appears without any pitch material, posing a deliberately ambiguous interpretative challenge to the performer \u2013 thanks to Janet\u2019s camera, the viewer has a rather better chance than in a recording or even a concert to appreciate that in these moments there is indeed still something happening!<\/p>\n

\u2018Ground<\/em>\u00a0operates in indirect homage to what is most interesting to me about the song: its pressure on the breath and on the lowest register, its repetitions, its aimless chromatic wanderings followed by plunging descents.\u2019<\/p>\n

It might be interesting to hear Evan\u2019s main reference recording for\u00a0Stormy Weather<\/em>, the\u00a0performance by Lena Horne<\/a>\u00a0from the film of the same name; another essential reference is the\u00a0recording by Ethel Waters<\/a>, for whom Arlen and Koehler first wrote it.”<\/p>\n

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