like a broken record (2022) - ca. 7’30”

“like a broken record” for solo bass clarinet is a piece that combines one of the hobbies I am most passionate about, collecting vinyl records, and the bass clarinet, an instrument who has been a part of my musical identity since the seventh grade. This piece is inspired by various quality control issues with vinyl records (pops, surface noise, skips, scratches) and utilizes contemporary techniques to represent these defects in the form of slap tongue, air sounds, quarter tones, and spectral multiphonics/glissandi