Composer Erin Gee’s Mouthpiece 37 on BBC 3 New Music Show | Collective LoveMusic

available until Jan 1, 2023

New Music Show | BBC 3 :

Tom Service reports from last month's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, talking to featured composers and introducing concert highlights including Una Monaghan playing solo harp in her piece Notwithstanding with Red Note Ensemble; Collective Lovemusic playing Mouthpiece 37 by Erin Gee and Lisa Streich's Sternenstill played by Quatuor Diotima. Also in the program, music from Australia by Cat Hope and Lionel Marchetti and a new commision from Heloise Tunstall-Behrens. Robert Worby talks to Lisa Streich about her work and Tom meets up with Claudia Molitor on the site of her new installation "Listen To My World".

Adam Starkie from Collective LoveMusic on Mouthpiece 37:

“Erin Gee is a singer and a composer and she started a series of pieces called Mouthpieces. Mouthpiece I was actually a solo piece written for herself. [The series] is about using vocal sounds that aren’t attached to language in any way, and what’s interesting is, according to the language that you might happen to speak, sometimes you think you hear words you don’t hear. In the piece that we’ve commissioned, Mouthpiece 37, Erin gives vocal sounds and utterances to all the musicians in the ensemble. When we worked with her, she said that the goal of this septet is basically [to form] one big mouth—so the seven musicians form one mouth and all of these crazy sounds are coming out of it.”