DESCRIPTION:
For ten bass clarinets. First live performance (in advance of forthcoming studio recording 2016)
Performed by Sarah Watts
With Jason Alder, Tommy Andrews, Mick Forster
Sarah Homer, Gennie Joy, Ian Mitchell, Julia Munn
Dai Pritchard & Dean Wood
Conductor: Terry Davies

Lola collaborated with bass clarinettist Sarah Watts, expert in the art of performing several notes concurrently (multiphonics) to establish how Sarah’s multiphonics could form the basis of a new composition. The resulting work, ‘Her Sisters’ Notebook’ for bass clarinet choir, features interplay between multiphonics and a harmonic language they gave rise to. The mysterious sound of Sarah’s multiphonics led Lola to other mysteries: the sense of a forgotten music lost through time and in particular the 800AD Byzantine Abbess composer Kassia who appears as fragments in the work and whose music reaches us through the centuries under an endlessly turning eclipse as portrayed in David Oates’ painting ‘Kiss 19’ – which Lola followed during the composition process to establish the work’s structure.