It has been an absolute delight working with Thomas Knollys, a fantastic musician and a good friend, on a new piece for solo bass clarinet. Viscous Impulse is concerned with densities of movement: melodic lines are pushed and pulled this way and that way, gaining momentum, entering and exiting various different orbits. The music works its way through different speeds, rates, viscosities; contracting and dilating, solidifying and liquefying, condensing and evaporating.

Thomas premiered the piece at the Royal Northern College of Music at the end of May, where it was hailed by one enthusiastic audience member as ‘a welcome addition to the Bass Clarinet repertoire’. You can listen to the piece here.