Heather Roche

Album reviews: modernism, minimalism and melancholy — Five Lines Reviews of three recent releases from New Zealand artists featuring composers Annea Lockwood and Anthony Ritchie and classical guitarist Matthew Marshall.

Another generous review of my Annea Lockwood album - this one from Five Lines in New Zealand by Elizabeth Kerr. I look forward to presenting Annea’s work at @counterflows.bsky.social and @musicintheround.bsky.social this spring! www.fivelines.nz/articles/ul6...

All the features of www.multiphonics.app - if there's anything you think is missing I'd love to hear about it!

New feature! Multiphonic of the day 😍
www.multiphonics.app

Clarinet Multiphonics Database A comprehensive database of clarinet multiphonics by Heather Roche. Search fingerings, hear audio examples, and build practice lists.

Also can you just take a moment to imagine with what glee I bought the domain www.multiphonics.app

SO MUCH GLEE

Ok the app is live. Have at it, clarinet multiphonic lovers. I'm dying to know what you think and how you'll use it!

www.multiphonics.app

A screenshot from the multiphonics app with a list of recent updates to the app

Soft launch has gone so well. Just over 50 users now! Such a thrill. And yesterday someone posted a bit of feedback in the forum which was genuinely so helpful so I implemented everything this morning. I really want to go proper live now.

Ok, I think the app is done. I think I might hit go on the soft launch tomorrow. Might spend today adding some more contrabass multiphonics...

my violin chord composer's helper tool is more or less done if anyone else wants to try it out

One week left to apply to this PhD studentship! Fully funded, covers fees and stipend; UK home student applicants only (due to funder rules).

Realised I hadn't added an option to cancel your account in what I thought yesterday might be a Finished App. Oops. Obviously had that realisation at 5am.

The 2025 RPS Composers gather at the end of programme networking event. From left: Arthur Keegan, Emily Hazrati, Lisa Robertson, Derri Joseph Lewis, Amble Skuse, Sasha Scott, Zygmund de Somogyi, Cameron Biles-Liddell.

We're welcoming applications for the 2027 RPS Composers programme, for UK-based composers establishing a career. Write for a noted ensemble, venue or festival, with professional development workshops and mentoring. Find out more and apply by 1 April: royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/composers/rp...

I am a debugging fiend!

Yes exactly...

I put a tool in my admin panel to check for duplicated fingerings and I found about 30 (oops - but there were 614 fingerings total so human error is likely), and it was SO satisfying to start tidying them all up. Urgent to do it too since my clarinetist beta tester has started work today 🥰

Yes!! Yay! Good luck with your crop

Wouldn't it be cool if suddenly there was just this huge proliferation of multiphonic-heavy clarinet music because the app just makes it so easy to be creative with them all?

Oh man I could die happy to think I helped bring that kind of joy into the world 🤣

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Terrifying and relatable

Composers! I've made a clarinet multiphonic app with a ton of features I know you'll love. Been dreaming of doing this myself for 12 years and now it's real. I'm just in the testing phase now if you want early and discounted access sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#MusicIcon Michel Arrignon, co-founder of the Ensemble Intercontemporain and cherished clarinettist, has passed away at 76. A pioneer of modernism, he brought 20th-century masterpieces to life and was deeply inspired by his work with Pierre Boulez. #ClassicalMusic #Legacy

Thank you!

Thank you, dear Anita!

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Since it was my birthday last week, I bought myself a present: a new contrabass clarinet mouthpiece from JD Woodwinds. 3D printed, and 1/3 of the price of other models. Arrived from the US in less than a week. And it plays like a dream. Agility + dynamic control are up 10x.

In color: Dimitri and Irina Shostakovich playing with a little cat.

ZRD Composer’s Lab: Applications Open! The Zöllner-Roche Duo are pleased to announce their 2025 Composer’s Lab. A jury consisting of Eva Zöllner & Heather Roche 
and composer Elnaz Seyedi will select 3 composers 
who will writ…

Three days until the deadline for our Composer's Lab, get your applications in! heatherroche.net/2025/02/25/z...

Ha! The clarinet! The clarinet!

Spent all day recording Meredith Monk on my glorious contrabass clarinet and I love playing it so much and please can more people book me to do so? Please? I really don’t get to take her out often enough. She’s low and a bit farty and really just delightful.

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