Bass-Ics for Double Bass, solo double bass

Inspired by Leonard Bernstein’s discussion of phonology and the beginnings of language in his The Unanswered Question: Six Harvard Lectures. Extended string technique

Instrumentation
Double Bass

Composer
Deon Nielsen Price

Time
6′

Composition Year
1988

Publication Year
2006

Recording Information
8/19/08 Tom Peters, double bass, Orpharion Recordings, not for commercial release; link to audio listening library:

Performance Information
5/1/1988 Jeffrey Weisner, double bass, Sempre Recitals, Culver City, California; 10/8/06 and 8/19/08 Tom Peters, double bass, National Association of Composers-Los Angeles Chapter, Martin Luther King Jr. Auditorium, Santa Monica, California; Fiuggi, Italy, 2 performance in 1997 at the Interantional Fesitval Donne in Musica organized by Patricia Chiti, played by visiting Bassist artist from Russia who refused to speak or sing while performing Bass-Ics. He was joined by soprano Deborah Kavasch who improvised a vocal line.