Saplings - Nneka Cummins
An EP I did some recording for in summer 2023 for current nonclassical Artist in Residence Nneka Cummins has just been released.
Nneka got in touch with me a couple of years ago to say they were interested in bassoon multiphonics, and asked if I could workshop some recordings for them. I was then provided a fantastically long and detailed list of multiphonics to work through!
Following that was a really fun recording session (on a boat!) with Alex Lyon (clarinet + bass clarinet) and Catherine Underhill (oboe + cor anglais), where we played through some melodic fragments, and Nneka took some more multiphonic recordings.
I’ve been excited to hear the end result of this for a long time - and it was absolutely worth the wait! It’s so great to hear the bassoon multiphonics making up a part of the beautiful woodwind-electronic-fusion texture they created.
This is a brilliant EP, and well worth a listen.
