Surfing With Narcissus: Updating The Technology Used In Thea Musgrave’s Work For Solo Clarinet
summary
A web application emulates the discontinued Vesta Kozo delay box and recreates Musgrave’s Narcissus using Web Audio API, Web MIDI API and WebAssembly, with an AudioWorkletNode implementing vibrato to avoid glitches. The original clarinet is imported dry because of pandemic recording, which reveals a tempo-matching problem: automated BPM-locking produces audible pitch shifts so that approach is discarded. Playback uses an ordered preset bank controlled by a single MIDI next button, and a working demo plus source are available.
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