Wind Quintet No. 2, "Birds of Guandu"

Composer: 
Robert Carl
Instrumentation freestyle: 
Flute (dbl pcc), oboe, clarinet in Bb, French Horn in F, Bassoon
Year Authored: 
2011
Movements-Titles: 
1. Chorale: Sunrise Invocation
Movements-Titles: 
2. Aviary
Movements-Titles: 
3. Sunset Blessing
First Performance: 
May 5, 2012, Hartford New Music Festival
Publisher: 
ACA
Publisher URL: 
American Composers Alliance

Ensemble Type

Instruments

Comments: 

Each player has a MaxMSP patch which can be run from a laptop in Runtime; this is used in the second movement, providing recordings of birdsong that each player mimic, as heard through headphones (not heard by audience). There is also a brief fixed media soundfile of birdshong that plays at the end of the third movement.