The Bent Frequency Duo Project (Jan Berry Baker and Stuart Gerber) perform Yvonne Wu's "Inflection: Two" at the 2023 Summer Institute of Contemporary Performance Practice along with SICPP participants.
Yvonne Wu writes the following about the piece:
“Inflection: Two” is part of a loose series of pieces that utilizes semi-structured improvisation. I’m seeking to balance specific materials that articulate my musical intentions and openness that allows space and time for the performers to engage and react to each other. Intimately connected, the two performers take turns leading and following, shaping and being shaped by the other. They are often asked to imitate nuances that cannot easily be imitated-like pitch and timbral fluctuations of uneven, airy flutters or multiphonic beating. Thus, the musical material is constantly bent and morphed as it is passed between them, and the players inflect each other's sounds.