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LA Composers Project 2013: Robin Cox
Next in our series of interviews with composers featured on What’s Next? Ensemble‘s fifth annual Los Angeles Composers Project is Robin Cox. Here we go:
The name of your piece being performed at LACP 2013 is:
Everywhere
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Tell us about it.
“Everywhere” juxtaposes a lilting bass clarinet solo against the rhythmic backbone of vibraphone accompaniment as processed by digital delay. I was interested in creating an impression of delay processing as simply a natural extension of the instrument. The vibraphone’s ringing ambience also provided a nice opportunity for blending such with the unique capacities a bass clarinet has for nuancing a musical phrase, or even a single long note.
Favorite X : Y?
Favorite vice : extremely dark chocolate.
Here’s the piece: