Welcome:

At the beginning of this new millennium, musicians are faced with new challenges. The legacy of postmodernism and technology, confront the creative musician with endless possibilities and outcomes. This site documents the music, improvisation, sound-exploration, instrument-building, composition and studio-recording of the Bent Leather Band. Live performance is at the heart of our work and we also play spectacular and unusual leather instruments. These instruments including the LightHarp and serpentine bassoon were built in collaboration with world renown leather artist Garry Greenwood. Some of Garry's unique instrument work can be viewed throught the leather link.

Points of focus for our duo include: live performance of electro-acoustic music, design and construction of new experimental musical instruments, gestural control of sound and music, composition and extended techniques for bassoon, interactive and algorithmic composition, and improvisation, creative music making and very bent sounding music.

This site functions as a point of contact for the duo and as a resource for composers, musicians, artists and anyone interested in our work. The bassoon multiphonics project is a comprehensive resource guide to the playing and use of multi-phonics for the bassoon.

Other links workshops. If you are interested to know more about our workshop series please follow the link below. If you are interested in our music projects there is a page detailing pieces, concert programs and current projects.

If you would like to obtain scores, CDs and web-published papers of our research, you will find that information in our publications section. General information on our instruments, our bios and on our sponsors can be found throughout the rest of the site. Other information relating to concert or research subscription, sponsorship and donations towards our research, can be found on the sponsorship page.

[Photograph by Ross Bird]

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