Turbulence - Fluid Friction by PEK (CEO of Evil Clown)

Evil Clown 9293
LIVESTREAMED to YouTube from
Evil Clown Headquarters, Waltham MA
8 December 2021
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Fluid Friction – 1:10:44
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- PEK - Clarinet, contralto & contrabass clarinets, soprano, alto, tenor & bass saxophones, bass flute,
5 hole wooden flute, alto & bass ocarinas, piccolo oboe, goat horn, bass tromboon, melodica, [d]ronin,
electric chimes, chime rod boxes, spring boxes, gongs, crotales, glockenspiel, Tibetan bowls, castanets,
seed pod rattle
- Melanie Howell-Brooks - alto sax, bass clarinet, wooden irish flute, flute head joint, bowed crotales,
glockenspiel, Temple & Tibetan bells, almglocken, cow bells, log drums, seed pod rattle, table, concertina,
chime rod boxes, spring boxes, 17-string bass
- Jared Holiday - tenor sax, bass clarinet, flute, beer bottle, 17-string bass, Englephone, wood blocks,
log drums, brontasaurus bell
- David Welans - flute, piccolo, flute head joint, head joint-dizi conversion, gong, glockenspiel, log drums,
wood & temple blocks, balafon, bowed percussion
- Dennis Livingston - flute, sopranino, soprano and alto recorders, ocarinas, assorted bottles
- Vance Provey - trumpet, balafon, concertina, Tibetan bowls, chime rod boxes, spring boxes, gong
- Ellwood Epps - trumpet, Tibetan bowl
- Bob Moores - trumpet with various mutes, flugelhorn, small wooden whistles, slide whistle, mini cowbell,
gong, plate gong, brontosaurus & tank bells, almglocken, crotales, glockenspiel, balafon,log drums,
wood blocks, temple blocks, seed pod rattle, castanets, [d]ronin, electric chimes, chime rod boxes,
spring boxes, gongs, crank siren
- Duane Reed - baritone horn, bass trombone, trombone mute, slide whistle, balafon, glockenspiel,
crotales, glockenspiel, gongs, bell tree, almglocken, Tibetan bowl, voice

----Liner Notes by PEK

This set, Fluid Friction, is the largest Turbulence ensemble since we resumed this year, at 9 horn players doubling percussion. The set features a couple of relative Evil Clown newbies: Ellwood Epps (tp) makes his third appearance after playing on a recent Leap of Faith session (Meaning Arising) and a pre-virus Turbulence festival performance (Upheaval); Vance Provey (tp) makes his third appearance after playing on a recent Leap of Faith session (Revealing the Essence) and the last Turbulence session (Roughness of Surfaces), and David Welans (flutes) makes his third appearance after playing on the recent Expanse Meets the JDME Quartet session (Scope) and the last Turbulence session (Roughness of Surfaces). We also have two performers on their very first Evil Clown performance: Jared Holiday (woodwinds) and Dennis Livingston (flutes). The balance of the ensemble is made up from Evil Clown regulars…
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I’m super happy with this session. The regulars and the newer arrivals really played extremely well together, listening intently and exercising admirable restraint. 9 players is a very large band for pure improvisation. Generally speaking, as ensemble size increases, so increases the difficulty of making music which is well-formed and tight. I’m very interested in the aesthetic problems of larger group pure improvisations. My Broad Palate concept is a solution to this problem which works by introducing many different possible sonorities. Over the duration of the work, the combination of instruments undergoes tremendous variation, leading to a sequence of very different movements. Most of the players on Fluid Friction play several horns, and also auxiliary percussion and the other instruments which are strewn all throughout the studio.
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Anyway, I like this set and I bet you will too…
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PEK – 12/9/2021