"Sugar Flow" mvt. II - Super Bass Clarinet Quintet w/2 contrabasses (composer: Cornelius Boots)

January 11, 2025 at the 2nd Low Clarinet Festival at Glendale Community College in Phoenix, Arizona
(sponsored by the International Clarinet Association)
Mother Underneath: Four movements for low clarinet quintet by Cornelius Boots
commissioned by bass clarinetists:
Alanna Benoit, Julia Lougheed & Steve White
joined by contrabass clarinetists:
Jeff Anderle & Kimberly Fullerton
watch movement four here:    • Super Bass Clarinet Quintet "Mother Undern...  

This is the newest evolution of the bass clarinet quartet: the Low Clarinet Quintet aka the Super Bass Clarinet Quintet.
This is movement 2 of a nurturing underworld saga celebrating the life and work of Dr. Suzanne Simard, forestry and ecologist extraordinaire -- MYCORRHIZAL NETWORKS. Or to quote Tom Waits: "There's a world going on underground." Tree Roots network in known and unknown ways through the soil with fungal networks, supporting other trees, trading sugars for minerals and communicating. All of it is alive, all of it intelligent.

MOTHER UNDERNEATH for low clarinet quintet
3 bass clarinets
2 contrabass clarinets [BBb]

I. Green from Below -    • "Green from Below"  Super Bass Clarinet Qu...  
II. Sugar Flow -    • "Sugar Flow" mvt. II - Super Bass Clarinet...  
III. Mineral Deal -    • Super Bass Clarinet Quintet w/ 2 Contrabas...  
IV. Mother Underneath -    • Super Bass Clarinet Quintet "Mother Undern...  
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Edmund Welles: the bass clarinet quartet
https://edmundwelles.bandcamp.com/

Sheet music:
https://corneliusboots.com/compositio...
More information about robot bass clarinet (electric bass clarinet) and Cornelius Boots:
http://corneliusboots.com/projects/ro...

Mother Underneath Low Clarinet Quintet - All Four Movements Playlist -
   • Super Bass Clarinet Quintet - MOTHER UNDER...  

the single-reed conspiracy:
From 1996-2014, EDMUND WELLES was transmuting many musical styles into bass clarinet quartet form. The single-reed conspiracy has at its disposal the following devices culled from the world of heavy metal music: a thickness of tone, a density of texture, absolute rhythmic precision, and the extreme use of dynamic contrasts. The bass clarinet: a synergy of designs from all saxophones and clarinets, themselves the culmination of hundreds of years of single-reed instrument evolution. A four-and-a-half octave voice, multiplied into four equal parts and breathing together to create a dense, pulsing sound capable of expressing and reflecting the full range of human emotions.

There was no precedent for a wind-based ensemble such as this attempting to build these massive bridges between avant jazz, new music, black metal and classic rock.

Cornelius Boots short bio:
Cornelius Boots established himself as a woodwind panstylist and hardcore creative composer-performer in the 1990’s and has performed in most types of ensembles, at international festivals and up-close for goats with big horns. He has written, recorded, and released over a dozen albums of his compositions and teaches his full-blooded, signature style to the curious and dedicated around the world. He is a three-time graduate of Jacobs School of Music (BM Classical Clarinet ’97, BS Audio Recording ’97, MM Jazz Studies ’99) and has received multiple awards, grants and commissions. Beginning with gospel arrangements in 1996, Boots initiated the bass clarinet quartet as a viable, robust chamber music modality, and has created substantial new composition catalogs for both bass clarinet and shakuhachi. He spent nine years as a progressive rock electric bass clarinetist and bandleader in Chicago and San Francisco, then began exploring primeval nature as a core influence. He started studying shakuhachi in 2001 with Michael Chikuzen Gould, from whom he earned the name Shinzen 深禅 in 2012, a Shihan in 2013 and a Dai Shihan in 2022. From 2016 onward, Boots has played only jinashi shakuhachi with an emphasis on big bamboo (Taimu) and original nature blues. He is the founder of Black Earth Shakuhachi School, and the leader/composer of the Wood Prophets, the world’s first bass shakuhachi group. He lives in Pennsylvania.
www.corneliusboots.com