American composer and clarinetist

John McCowen

CountryUnited States

GenderMale

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Biography

Brooklyn, NY-based John McCowen is a composer/performer originally from Southern Illinois. His work focuses on extending the possibilities of the clarinet. He embraces long-form drones, difference tones, and beating harmonics as a means to extrude the dimensions within - treating the clarinet as an acoustic synthesizer.

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Free ImprovisationExperimentalInstrumentalJazzComposer

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