Blooms and Death by Brigid Burke Excerpts of Prelude Movt1,2,3 & Interlude
Blooms Lives On A visual music journey for solo clarinet/voice/flute, electronics and visuals Brigid Burke for Bb clarinet/electronics and visuals Blooms Lives On is a continuation of my exploration into the life cycles of sound and image, distilled into a solo performance. Building on ideas developed in Blooms and Death, this iteration focuses on the intimate relationship between performer, breath, and the ephemeral nature of both sonic and visual material. The piece originated from my observation of yellow roses gradually fading into decay captured through drawing, photography, and layered digital treatments. These visuals serve not as backdrops but as equal partners in a dynamic interplay with sound. Woodwind breath, extended techniques, and subtle timbral shifts are woven with live and fixed electronic textures air, field recordings, fragments of decay creating a meditative soundscape. The visuals evolve in real-time alongside the sonic narrative, reflecting the fragility and transformation of organic matter.
Prelude for solo clarinet and visual by Brigid Burke
Prelude begins the journey of Blooms and Death, unfolding through solo clarinet and layered shadow imagery. Original rose forms dissolve into fragmented digital textures, where the vivid rose appears only fleetingly within shifting layers of shadow and light. The work inhabits a world of stillness and fragility, where sound and image move together as a meditation on beauty, distance and impermanence.
Altered Roses is an extension of Prelude and Roses Scream which begins the journey of Blooms and Death, unfolding through clarinet, piano and layered shadow imagery. Original rose forms dissolve into fragmented digital textures, where the vivid rose appears only momentarily within shifting layers of shadow and light. The work inhabits a world of stillness and fragility, where sound and image move together as a meditation on beauty, distance and impermanence. fragility and sonic colour through breath, microtonality and resonance.
Roses Will Scream
for solo clarinet
was commissioned for and first performed at the International Clarinet Festival at the University of British Columbia. Written for solo clarinet, the work explores intimacy, fragility and sonic colour through breath, microtonality and resonance.
Petals Scream
by Brigid Burke for Bb clarinet, electronics and video