MADISON GREENSTONE

Madison Greenstone is a clarinetist, writer, and composer based in Brooklyn. Their solo practice exstatic resonances explores "shatteringly intense" (Nowhere Street) instrumental expressivities that give rise to a "thrilling rawness" (The Wire) when the clarinet is treated as a site of generative instability. Exstatic resonances draw on ongoing studies in phenomenology, self-generative music, and acoustics. Their approach embraces and instigates chaotic timbral actions, difficult-to-reign sonorities, and harmonically rich and noisy resonances that have a vivid inner life and movement... Madison plays on Schwenk & Seggelke (Bamberg) Bb and A clarinets made from mopane wood, a vintage Selmer bass clarinet that was played by Dave Breeden before his passing, and a Leblanc paperclip contrabass clarinet.