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Creating never-before heard sonic experiences, tranSpectra is a collective of innovative artists dedicated to exploring tonality and harmony beyond the traditional Western scale.
Comprised of versatile performers
on clarinets, percussion, voice, strings and dance, tranSpectra's
repertoire is based on an alternative tuning system called the Bohlen-Pierce
scale. tranSpectra is the only group of its kind in
North America, and one of only two in the world (see below).
tranSpectra's members and collaborators include:
Tilly
Kooyman, clarinet
Stephen
Fox, clarinet/instrument maker
Rick
Sacks, composer/percussion
Todd
Harrop, composer/percussion
Owen
Bloomfield, composer
Jascha
Narveson, composer
Emily
Doolittle, composer
Gayle
Young, composer/amaranth
Peter
Hannan, composer/recorder
Paul
Pulford, cello
Marion
Samuel-Stevens, soprano
Anne-Marie
Donovan, mezzo-soprano
Yvonne
Ng, dancer
For further information about the Bohlen-Pierce scale, please see the website maintained by its co-inventor Heinz Bohlen, and the article on the Bohlen-Pierce clarinet project by Stephen Fox.
Concert at Open Ears Festival, Kitchener,
ON, April 2009
(courtesy Kenneth
Doren)
Premiere concert at University of Guelph,
March 2008
Stephen Fox, Tilly Kooyman, Owen Bloomfield,
Todd Harrop
(courtesy
Julian
Katz)
Composition and performance of Bohlen-Pierce music is also taking place in Germany, centred at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg and led by Dr. Georg Hajdu. Details of the inaugural concert by this group, including audio files, are available here.