EDITION WANDELWEISER RECORDS > CD catalogue _____________________________________________________________________                                                                                                     <<   >> christine tavolacci & katie porter malosma   order reference:    medium:              composer:           performer: EWR 2507 CD  christine tavolacci & katie porter christine tavolacci (bass flute), katie porter (bass clarinet)   christine tavolacci & katie porter malosma   01           malosma                                   53’00”           christine tavolacci (bass flute), katie porter (bass clarinet) audio excerpt: ►   beginning (10:00) ►   end (10:00)   malosma laurina, laurel sumac (lentisco), native to southern california, is one of the first plants to regrow after wildfires. malosma is a collaborative work for bass flute & bass clarinet by christine tavolacci & katie porter. this work was created slowly in 2020, between our two lives, between los angeles and utah, over the internet, in friendship, and deep in the global pandemic. we were inspired by new normals, liminality, extreme weather events, floods, fires, cities filled with smoke, and sounds that both sit on the edge of perception and fill the entire room. it was a beautiful discovery when we first played this piece together in the same space, a few years later, and we found that it sounded just as magical as we had imagined it. photo of the eaton saddle trail in the angeles national forest, taken by christine tavolacci.