Listen to a fragment of “[sic] sauce” (2009)
The sketch is from her piece “aroundof” (1997)
Link to Anne LaBerge’s website:
aroundof (1997) for oboe and recorded/processed oboes (13″)**
Written for Cathy Millikin
Uit: Interview with Bob Gilmore, Amsterdam, Summer 2005:
I want to ask about some pieces on your list of works that I don’t know anything about, like these improvisation pieces for example, souped, sondsuite, bandbound and againstance.
I did those here in 1995 – I was asked to do a workshop for an improvisation group in Rotterdam that gets together and rehearses improvisations, and they would bring in guests and pay them to do a project. And I went in and I told them how I improvise. And they looked at me. And I went home to David and I said: I think they want me to tell them what to do. And David said: People are like that, Anne. And so then I made pieces for them that I’ve used in all kinds of settings, and they’re notated in the sense that they all have scores, and sets of instructions, and I’ve been able to use them in festivals where I go and work with people in the festival to play these pieces.
But aroundof for oboe and pre-recorded oboes was written for somebody else, I presume.
Yes, for Cathy Milliken from Ensemble Modern. She has this technique where she can play an open reed and the oboe at the same time and do this great pitch phasing. It starts out with a very long section with recorded oboes, that mass of sound kind of thing. Then there’s mus, pak, dus, for the duo I have with [bass clarinettist] Henk Bakker. We improvised, and each played solo pieces, and played this. That worked out well. That was one of the first where I also had text, which came in the middle. We improvised a section with certain requirements, then I turned on a CD with this text that we played under, then we had another section of improv.