Eva-Maria Houben, Rebecca Lane, Samuel Dunscombe - Observing Objects (2017)

‘Observing Objects’ is a quietly beautiful, improvised exercise in familiarisation between Eva Maria Houben, Rebecca Lane, and Sam Dunscombe, who had never previously played together prior to this recording

Based around simple, lingering gestures, in turn each player contributes single sounds which they observe and reflect upon before contributing their own, and so-on, with each consecutive part revealing more of the performer’s characteristics to the other.

Samuel Ekkehardt Dunscombe’s bass clarinet and Rebecca Lane’s bass flute occupy the lower registers and Eva-Maria’s organ and piano tend to the higher tones, each tentatively holding their bandwidth which only gradually overlap as the performers gain familiarity thru their practice, in turn generating more curious, querying and melting combinations as they work each other out.