The Intramic is similar to pickup-style mics which are fitted onto the barrel or neck of a clarinet or saxophone. The key features of these types of mics are:
*Don’t produce feedback
*Isolated from other instruments on stage
*Even coverage of the entire range of the instrument.
However the Intramic DOESN’T REQUIRE DRILLING INTO THE INSTRUMENT!!
The first Istanbul Woodwind Festival was held this year 2016 from 29 June – 3 July, and Shadanga Duo had the pleasure of performing.
I’ve recently joined the Behn Mouthpieces Artists team. I first became acquainted with Brad Behn’s mouthpieces at the 2013 ClarinetFest in Assisi. I had tried some of his pieces for clarinet, and found one that I really liked in his Signature Collection. It was quite open (something like 1.56 tip opening… typical “classical” mouthpieces are between 1.0-1.10 or so), which I like for klezmer, jazz, and a lot of contemporary music. It blew quite freely, and I had a lot of flexibility for bending notes, multiphonics, and slap tongues. It’s also loud as hell! But what especially caught my attention was how clean and centered the tone still was.
In 2012, flutist Katalin Szanyi and I were brought together to perform the duo Oshun Olodí by Louis Aguirre, a Cuban composer living in Denmark.
In the beginning of the summer I recorded for the soundtrack of a short animation, “Beren op de Weg”, the graduation project of Nadia Meezen from the Willem de Kooning Academie in Delft. The music is by Bas Bouma, one of the organizers of the Pale Blue Dot project I worked on in 2014 and have since done other work with. The music features the clarinet quite prominently as the solo melody instrument.
Micing a clarinet, and especially a bass clarinet, is difficult. I had a list of several requirements of a microphone…
