CHRISTOPHER CLARINO performs KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN'S INORI
GREGORY OAKES premieres new works for quarter tone-extended clarinet by composers from UC Berkeley
San Diego-based ASL-signing percussionist, CHRISTOPHER CLARINO perform's Karlheinz Stockhausen's classic work INORI (1973-74) for soloist and audio playback. Dr. Clarino's work strives to build bridges between the hearing and Deaf communities, addressing themes of accessibility, corporeality, iconicity, translation, abstraction, and cultural ownership. He has spent the past three years learning INORI, traveling to Germany in 2022 to study at the Stockhausen Courses with Alain Louafi and Kathinka Pasveer - early performers and pioneers of the work. Clarino has given the US and Brazilian premieres of INORI this season and will present the Mexican premiere in 2024.
The Japanese word inori means prayer, invocation, adoration. The work can be performed with orchestra or audio playback, and one (or two, or three simultaneous) dancer-mime(s) performing prayer gestures alongside the music. For example, a gesture with hands folded near the heart, just in front of the chest, corresponds to the middle pitch G (above middle C), the dynamic level pianissimo and the longest duration. When this gesture moves to the front away from the body, this corresponds to a crescendo from pianissimo to forte-fortissimo, which is divided into 60 degrees.
Clarinetist GREGORY OAKES premieres pieces for quarter tone-extended clarinet by the Students in the Studio of Ken Ueno at UC Berkeley. The Quarter Tone-Extended Clarinet is a standard Bb clarinet with extra keys added to allow it to play quarter tones throughout its entire range. In the instrument’s three years of existence, over 20 works have already been written for it with more pieces continually adding to its repertoire. Composers featured in this concert include TIANYU ZOU, TOM PAN, DION NATARAJA, MAT MUNTZ, WAI HIN KO, and JOSIAH ADRINEDA.