VIDEO
speaking about creating "Empathy Spaces" & the "why" of her innovative performance practices
Clarinetist Laura Carmichael's personal opening remarks on her "why" of performing contemporary music that incorporates text and speaking with instrumental performance. From a concert on 26 April 2017 at Hertz Hall, University of California, Berkeley.
trailer Diving Into the Wreck
"a flood, a shipwreck, a myth inverted" DIVING INTO THE WRECK is clarinettist Laura Carmichael's evening-length solo show responding to #MeToo. In it she explores the wreckage and treasures of Western patriarchy, through storytelling and music.
CINDY Cox's The Shape of the shell
music composition: Cindy Cox (http://cacox.com) text: John Campion for improvising solo bass clarinetist and tape: written for and performed by Laura Carmichael (http://www.lauracarmichael.com) 27 May 2017 Hertz Hall, University of California, Berkeley composed 2010 notes from the performer (2017): "Cindy Cox's piece 'The Shape of the Shell' was made in the anechoic chamber in the basement of Morrison hall at UC Berkeley, with assistance from CNMAT.
Ken Ueno's stars Like Sibilants
Duo X presents a film version of Ken Ueno's staged composition for clarinet and sho. A Ritual - A Performance - A Film Directed by Sjaron Minialo Performed by Laura Carmichael and Naomi Sato Filmed in Muziekhuis Utrecht with support from Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst (AFK) for more information, booking of screenings: lauracarmichael.com
Tobias Klein's Rant
"Rant" Tobias Klein 2016 Basklarinetfestijn 2016 Bimhuis, Amsterdam Oğuz Büyükberber, Michael Riessler: Bass Clarinet Soloists Fie Schouten, Petra Stump: Basset Horns Laura Carmichael, Marij van Gorkom, Heinz-Peter Linshalm, Stephan Vermeersch: Bass Clarinets Armand Angster, Tobias Klein: Contrabass Clarinets
Theo Loevendi's Claro
26 july 2015 International Clarinet Fest Madrid Laura Carmichael - clarinet Fie Schouten - bass clarinet Claro (2015, dedicated to Fie Schouten) - Theo Loevendie publisher Peer music classical www.peermusic-classical.de/werk_detail/werk/4459_claro www.bassclarinet.nl
structured improvisation 360 Degrees
Structured improvisation Laura Carmichael and Oğuz Büyükberber, Bass Clarinets European Clarinet Festival Kortrijk Belgium 2010
Oguz Buyubkerber's Don't Faint
Don't Faint! For Four Players And Video Oğuz Büyükberber 2014 Laura Carmichael, Fie Schouten - Clarinet Oğuz Büyükberber - Bass Clarinet Tobias Klein Contrabass - Clarinet International Clarinet Festival 2015 Madrid
Anne LaBerge Urban Doldrums with set by Elsa van der Akker
Naomi Sato (sho), Laura Carmichael (bas clarinet) en Elze van den Akker (objecten) tijdens het concert Synesthesia in Radio Kootwijk op 26 januari 2010. Radio Kootwijk Live - musici op zoek naar nieuwe concert vormen en contact met hun publiek. In korte laboratorium sessies werken zij samen met kunstenaars uit andere disciplines.
This is a 10 minute edit of the theatrically staged concert "URBAN DOLDRUMS"
by Amsterdam based Duo X--
Laura Carmichael (clarinets) and Naomi Sato (saxophones and sho).
For more information please contact: http://duox.info@gmail.com
myspace.com/duox
Recorded during a live performance at Theater Kikker, Utrecht, in February 2010. The full concert is 60 minutes.
"URBAN DOLDRUMS" features six musical compositions written for Duo X with electronics and video, some of which incorporate improvisation and text.
All the technology is controlled wirelessly in MAX/msp by TouchOSC remote on the iPhone.
collaborators and composers include:
Ken Ueno
Tomohisa Hashimoto
Morris Rosenzweig
Anne LaBerge
Marcel Wierckx
Adam and Mark Melvin
Luc van Weelden, MAX programmer
Laura Carmichael's SOS Vivaldi
Laura Carmichael, composition and performance SOS Vivaldi incorporates Adriene Rich's poem "Diving into the Wreck" from 1973, Antonio Vivaldi "Nisi Dominus" psalm 126 performed by Ensemble Matheus, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, conductor, Philip Jarusky, soloist, and a Syrian folksong, sung by an anonymous girl, documented by Ben Falk and John McCarthy for Mare Nostrum SOS VIVALDI (2016) www.lauracarmichael.com
IG Henneman The Motion Caused
Performed 26 April 2017 Hertz Hall, University of California, Berkeley "The Motion Caused" is based on the poem "Garden" by Anneke Brassinga (translated from Dutch by John Irons), and is part of a series of solo works Ig Henneman has composed, each of which is inspired by a poem.
Hannah Lash California Orange
26 May 2017 Hertz Hall, University California, Berkeley Hannah Lash "California Orange" for solo clarinet written for and performed by Laura Carmichael "California Orange" was written for Laura Carmichael in 2014, and is the result of a playful social media interaction.
Duo X Urban Doldrums trailer
DuoX (Laura Carmichael and Naomi Sato) played in Rebodying Festival in Istanbul 2010.
Matthew Burtner'S Sxueak
DuoX (Laura Carmichael & Naomi Sato) Played in Tokyo Wonde Site
Oguz Buyubkerber's XY
XY by Oğuz Büyükberber For Clarinet, Alto Saxophone, Live Electronics and Video Performed by Duo X Laura Carmichael: Clarinet, Naomi Sato: Alto Saxophone BYU April 2013 - Note: This is an excerpt of the 13 minute piece.
Oguz Buyubkerber's 3d in the dark
3D IN THE DARK oğuz büyükberber oğuz büyükberber clarinet naomi sato soprano saxophone tobias klein alto saxophone sophie hassfurther tenor saxophone laura carmichael bass clarinet and voice wolter wierbos trombone simon nabatov piano demirhan baylan electric bass gerry hemingway drums cem aksel dums 'CARTE BLANCHE OĞUZ BÜYÜKBERBER' BIMHUIS Amsterdam 21 September 20212
Basklarinet Festijn compilation
BASKLARINET FESTIJN 6-13 april 2014 Harry Sparnaay 70! AMSTERDAM - Bimhuis, muzyQ GRONINGEN - Grand Theatre, Prins Claus Conservatorium DEN BOSCH - De Toonzaal, Noordbrabants Museum Bass clarinetists: Harry Sparnaay Ernesto Molinari Claudio Puntin Steffen Schorn Fie Schouten Tobias Klein Jelte Althuis Laura Carmichael Ainhoa Miranda Oguz Büyükberber music: Lyell Cresswell - Sucre du Printemps Ladder of Escape - Michael Smetanin Too dark to read, Tung-sten - Tobias Klein Basset - Guus Janssen Watching Ali!
Ken Ueno's Two Believers on opposite sides...
Laura Carmichael, clarinet and Naomi Sato, sho (DUO X) perform Ken Ueno's "Two believers on opposite sides of the same ocean, transcribing the same sky, at the same time, one at sunset, the other at sunrise" 2003 video by Marcel Wierckx 2009 recorded at STEIM in Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2010 performance video footage by Takako Oishi http://www.lauracarmichael.com/DUOX/Site/home.html
Melvin Brothers (UK): Adam Melvin, composition and electronics and Mark Melvin, video
Duo X (The Netherlands): Naomi Sato, saxophone and Laura Carmichael, bass clarinet
This piece was made collaboratively by four artists, who met in 2007 in the Czech Republic at the Cesta "Waste Festival" which put together artists from different countries who did not already know each other. This video version of the piece compresses images and material into a flat surface, a different version of the material specifically for internet.
In part, the piece uses raw material that is often thrown out, or avoided, like environmental background noises, breath and key noise in recordings. Footage of piles of rubble found around the building are used to make abstract landscapes on the floor when performed in the original 3D installation setting. Improvisation also plays a role in the piece; each player maps a code onto the micro movements of their faces, filmed while telling a story in their native language (starts around 3:30).
Takako Oishi, live performance video footage
PHOTOS
PRESS
“In Tamar Diesendruck’s ‘Tell’ sonorities are shed by wearing away a thousand year old musical hill, as it were. It sounded partly like a self-declared rap with sprechstimme and tambourine rhythms, then suddenly like a mature film music folksong.
Laura Carmichael in the lead role as speaking player dug brilliantly through the layers of sound.”
“... Carmichael and Kishi played “Charisma.” Exploiting the extreme ranges of both instruments and extremes in dynamics, Xenakis’ piece is charged with unbridled power and kinetic force, and the two instrumentalists captured that easily, giving a stunning and hypnotic performance.”
“Carmichael and Blackmore gave a compelling reading of the work that captured the intensity of expressions and the unfolding drama between the two instrumentalists. (Lee Hyla’s ‘We Speak Etruscan’)”