Spotlight On Glenn Dickson & Bob Familiar: The Clarinet in the Machine
Today, the Spotlight shines On clarinetist Glenn Dickson and electronic musician Bob Familiar.
When a cutting-edge klezmer artist meets a former rock synthesist, you might expect creative tension. Instead, Glenn and Bob found something else entirely—a shared language that turns clarinet and electronics into the most unlikely yet inspired pairings.
Their new album All the Light of Our Sphere layers acoustic clarinet with synthesizers and loop devices to create what they describe as orchestral ambient music. The tracks were recorded live with no overdubs, no click tracks, just two musicians finding their way through inspired improvisations.
Glenn brings decades of experience from klezmer to microtonal jazz, while Bob's electronic landscapes draw from science fiction and years in Boston's rock scene. Together, they're creating something that sits between Brian Eno and Eastern European folk traditions.
(The musical excerpts heard in the interview are from Dickson and Familiar’s album All the Light of Our Sphere)
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