Imaginary Light: Rebecca Lawrence & Isaac Roth Blumfield

Imaginary light is a program that combines contemporary works for contrabass solo, exploring the instrument´s depths of timbre and all-encompassing sound. Through three recent pieces written by prominent composers in Germany´s contemporary music scene, the sonic compass of the double bass is stretched, exposed and expanded and reformed through the use of detuning, harmonics, and multiphonics. The distortion of fundalmentals and the shimmering, fluctuating nature of harmonic sounds evokes the interplay of light and shadows, bringing a sense of dimension and wonder to the seldom-heart instrument.