Megadont

Megadont
Megadont for three baritone saxophones is a work centered on different textures of layered multiphonics, pitched slaps, and imitative glissandi figures. The pitch content arises out of a blurred unison, that, in combination with overtone-based multiphonics eventually opens to a pure fifth – the 2nd and 3rd partials of an ‘imaginary’ unplayable low fundamental. This then expands even wider to the 10th, 11th, and 12th partials in the uppermost range of the instrument. The title, a zoological term, is used to describe animals with very large teeth.