Label: Sub Rosa

アルヴィン・ルシエのオマージュ!! コンテンポラリー作品演奏を専門とするクラリネット奏者の1st LP!!様々なアンサンブルで演奏活動を行い、とあるコレクティブでは芸術監督なども勤めているクラリネット・プレイヤーDries Tack。重鎮アルヴィン・ルシエが示した「聴くこと自体が芸術であるということ」を改めて認識させてくれる、名作[In Memoriam John Higgins]と[In Memoriam Stuart Marshall]、2編の演奏を収録した激ハードコアなLP音源を発表。一定の音色を保つクラリネットに合わせ、ゆっくりとした正弦波のグリッサンドが滑らかに流れる、脈動するパターン&リズムの超名演。





This album is not just a homage — it’s a gentle act of remembrance. A way of tuning in to what Lucier showed us: that listening is an art in itself. A meditation on resonance, memory, and the quiet power of pure sound.
Or to quote Alvin Lucier himself: “I guess I’m trying to help
people hold shells up to their ears, and listen to the ocean again.”

The influence of Alvin Lucier’s work on acoustic phenomena and the interplay between sound and space is difficult to overstate. His legacy continues to echo through the work of countless composers and sound artists today. Lucier’s music is marked by a sense of childlike wonder and sonic simplicity - shifting our perception from what we hear to how we listen. At the heart of his compositions lies the sine wave: the purest, most elemental form of sound. Clarinetist Dries Tack pays tribute to this master of minimalism with an album centered around two works Lucier composed as intimate ‘In Memoriams’ for friends. Both pieces explore a single, elegant idea: the interaction between an instrumental tone and a sine wave.

DRIES TACK
Dries Tack is a clarinetist specializing in contemporary performance practices. He performs with ensembles such as Nadar Ensemble, Curious Chamber Players, and Ensemble Fractales. As co-artistic director of the GLoW Collective, he explores collaborative practices across artistic disciplines in the broadest sense.
In addition to his ensemble work, Dries curates solo projects that offer fresh perspectives on existing repertoire or give rise to entirely new works at the intersection of composition and improvisation. Out of that interaction, ‘beatings’ emerge — a pulsating rhythm that accelerates or decelerates as the waves draw nearer or drift apart. Though built on the same concept, the two works are like mirrored reflections of one another: In Memoriam Jon Higgins, the sine wave glides in a slow glissando while the clarinet holds steady tones. In Memoriam Stuart Marshall, it’s the clarinet that dances around a fixed sine wave