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Bright Shiny Things, 2019
Tuple Bassoon Duo (Lynn Hileman and Rachael Elliott) takes listeners on a journey traversing three decades of modern repertoire for two bassoons. Their debut album Darker Things presents five foundational works for two bassoons heard together for the first time, drawing from the richness of Russian modernism, Dutch absurdism and American post-minimalism.
Darker Things features works by Louis Andriessen, Michael Daugherty, Sofia Gubaidulina, Chiel Meijering, and Marc Mellits.
Cantaloupe Records, 2014
Composed for seven bassoons, Rushes takes its place alongside Michael Gordon’s Timber for expanding the boundaries of a single instrument’s repertoire into unknown (and at times, otherworldly) spaces. Like Timber, which maps new percussive territory for the simantra—a simple two-by-four slab of wood, amplified and played in a group of six to yield trance-like sonic textures—Rushes brings out tonal and timbral aspects of the bassoon that are meant to induce a quasi-meditative, almost ecstatic state, in the listener as well as the performer.