For amplified reed quintet: Oboe, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Bassoon and Alto Saxophone
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It is truly no feat to blow a tube, and therefore no one would think to gather an audience for the purpose of entertaining them with tube blowing. But if he should do so, and if he should succeed in his aim, then it cannot be a matter of mere tubeblowing. Or alternatively, it is a matter of tube blowing, but as it turns out we have overlooked the art of tube blowing because we were so proficient at it that it is this new tube blower who is the first to demonstrate what it actually entails, whereby it could be even more effective if he were less expert in tube blowing than the majority of us.
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FDC
The piece explores briefly the wind instruments as objects through amplification and coloring of air sculpted by several consonants produced by the mouth. Spatialization extracts the flow of those interactions to recreate another air object around the audience. Binaural: https://soundcloud.com/omar-fraire/5_aerify
