Paris based composer and clarinettist Carol Robinson describes her works as “hybrid sound worlds” – referencing her practice of combining the acoustic and electronic, but also acknowledging a long-running commitment to engaging collaboration, which perpetually brings in fresh influences.

In an interview with Louise Gray in The Wire 477, Robinson asserts that “after all these years of playing with this person and that person and this music and that, that is where the essential lies.”

Here the musician shares excerpts from a composition that she began working on during lockdown in Springtime entitled GEORG. “I’d been playing some Georg Phillipp Telemann while pondering what I wanted to do for a carte blanche at the Musique Action Festival in Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy,” she writes over email. “Combining Serge Teyssot-Gay’s great guitar playing with my bass clarinet in its hybrid live electronic state, seemed the perfect mix for maximum expression.”

Read Louise Gray's interview with Carol Robinson in full in The Wire 477. Wire subscribers can also read the article via the online magazine library.