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Meat Speak (feat. DePaul University Ensemble 20+ & Zach Good)

by Owen Davis

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Premiered on March 6th, 2015
Ensemble 20+ with Zachary Good, solo bass clarinet
DePaul School of Music, Chicago, IL

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In 1967, the American Beat poet Michael McClure wrote the “Ghost Tantras”, a collection of 99 poems that often abandon language and syntax all together and replace it with strung together onomatopoeic words that provoke a certain physical or psychological response when read and, more importantly, when listened to.This collection of poems exemplifies his investigation into, and creation of, a ‘beast language’ – an attempt to transcend the human language that, to McClure, is insufficient at communicating anything powerful and worthwhile. Music i.e organized sound, being innately detached from any practical communicative ability of human language – has similar goals. Focusing much more on what the sound itself, its essence, communicates directly to a listener, more than any narrative abstraction, is at the center of how this work how it is constructed.

The title, MEAT SPEAK, alludes to this beast language that McClure was creating. MEAT; raw, powerful, blood-filled, animalistic, visceral, SPEAK; scream, project, communicate, disseminate.

I chose the bass clarinet, an instrument that seemed to exemplify these qualities and has the ability to emit sounds that have the power to communicate them to be the central figure in the ensemble. In this work the multiphonics of the instrument serve both as motivation for material in terms of pitch, quality (timbre), and proportions (structure) and as a metaphor — a multiplicity moving towards and away from a singular impulse.It is through this process of extrapolating material from a complex causality that I attempt to unify the ensemble into one expressive organism and bring focus to the sound itself by amplifying, projecting, and synthesizing its inherent elements throughout the work

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released December 16, 2018

Composed by Owen Davis Performed by the DePaul University Ensemble 20+, a new music ensemble under the direction of Micheal Lewanski. Bass Clarinet soloist is Chicago based clarinetist and improvisor, Zach Good Recorded by David Zuchowski

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Owen Davis Flagstaff, Arizona

Owen Davis is a composer, percussionist, improvisor, noise artist, and co-curator of the Interference Series based in Flagstaff, AZ, USA. His work centers around noise - searching out ways to find and make it in composition, improvisation, and other performance situations. ... more

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