Clarinetist Madison Greenstone on Smart Rider Principles, November 12th

Thursday, November 12th 4-6pm ET on Smart Rider Principles: Madison Greenstone is a clarinetist, improviser, and member of TAK Ensemble. Their solo practice explores material and spatial expressivities of sustained sound through richly noisy timbral actions. Recently their work explores dreamlike acoustic mirages, spatial interferences of difference tones and beating, and draws inspiration from fiction writer Yoko Tawada’s proposition that there is no such thing as a room with a fixed size. Madison’s work has been presented by Blank Forms, Lampo, ISSUE Project Room, Cafe Oto, KM28, and Morphine Raum, Oscillation Festival (BE), elementi (IT), and Rhizome DC. Madison’s writings on experimental music have been published through Museum of Art and History Neuchâtel, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb / k-verlag, Contemporary Music Review, and Blank Forms.

exstatic resonances are wild acoustic phenomena created by indeterminacies within the clarinet’s timbre. Madison’s practice draws on a deep study of the polyphonic qualities of the clarinet, a traditionally monophonic instrument, and explores sonorities that sound outside of themselves, with highly spatial, sculptural, and disorienting qualities. They embrace difference tones, psychoacoustic phenomena, and all the unruly irreducibilities within the clarinet to create an acoustic identity that fractures its own singularity. With sustained circular breathing, they link a mysticism of repetition with the inherent variance latent therein