Right Now, in a Second Transient Canvas

• Barbara White:
• 1 Fool Me Once 08:07
• Jonathan Bailey Holland (b. 1974):
• 2 Rebounds 04:28
• Emily Koh (b. 1986):
• 3 \very/ specifically vague 07:11
• Clifton Ingram:
• 4 Cold Column, Calving 10:47
• Crystal Pascucci:
• 5 resonance imaging 10:44
• Stefanie Lubkowski:
• 6 Right Now, in a Second 09:44
• Keith Kirchoff:
• 7 Monochrome 07:47
• Total Runtime 58:48

Info for Right Now, in a Second

Boston based Transient Canvas (Amy Advocat, bass clarinet; Matt Sharrock, marimba) releases their newest recording documenting their extensive work commissioning new works for their instrumentation. On Right now, in a second, the duo presents premiere recordings of music by Barbara White, Jonathan Bailey Holland, Emily Koh, Clifton Ingram, Crystal Pascucci, Stefanie Lubkowski, and Keith Kirchoff.

Boston based bass clarinet and marimba duo Transient Canvas (Amy Advocat and Matt Sharrock) release their third album with New Focus, continuing to document their tireless commissioning project for their instrumentation. The music on this collection revels in contrasts — between rhythmic dynamism and free meter, bombastic extroversion and delicate inward moments, conventional and extended technique.

Opening the recording is Barbara White’s Fool Me Once, a work divided into two sections, first rhythmic and coordinated and second atmospheric and textural. A syncopated figure is heard in unison to begin the piece, before it is gradually deconstructed, fragmenting its components into both parts. After moving through a slower tempo, the texture lands in a free, vigorous climax marked by raw multiphonics and squeals in the clarinet and virtuosic scalar passages in marimba. Short outbursts of this material become more spaced out, as the work slowly turns toward music that hints at White’s interest in meditative solo Japanese bamboo flute repertoire. The piece closes with a quiet, breathy clarinet multiphonic, hearkening back to the energetic opening heard now filtered through a reflective hue.

Jonathan Bailey Holland's work Rebounds is a contemporary answer to the short character pieces popular in the romantic piano repertoire. He establishes insistent repeated notes as a key motive from the beginning, sounding them in both instruments in alternation, in deceleration, and different tempi. This idea grows into a pulsating section where marimba chords bloom, eventually supporting a lyrical clarinet melody. Bailey Holland compresses the range of material back to the repeated note motive to close the piece with a gentle hocketed figure between the two instruments. ...

Transient Canvas

Transient Canvas
Boston-based contemporary duo Transient Canvas is on a mission to revolutionize the modern concert experience. Since 2011, their innovative performances have been praised as “superb” by the Boston Globe and “disarming” by Cleveland Classical, with the San Francisco Chronicle lauding “the versatile imagination they both display and inspire in others.” Bass clarinetist Amy Advocat and marimbist Matt Sharrock relish the creative potential of working with living composers, having amassed a varied repertoire of over 80 commissioned works in addition to working with hundreds of student composers from all over the world. They maintain an active touring schedule with recent performances at the Charlotte New Music Festival, Red Note Festival, Music on the Edge, Ethos New Music Society, People Inside Electronics, Music at the Forefront, and New Music Gathering, among others. They have two albums, Sift and Wired, both released on New Focus Recordings. Transient Canvas proudly endorses Henri Selmer Paris, Conn-Selmer, and Marimba One.

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