John Fonville is a
flutist
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and
composer. Fonville specializes in
extended technique
In music, extended technique is unconventional, unorthodox, or non-traditional methods of singing or of playing musical instruments employed to obtain unusual sounds or timbres.Burtner, Matthew (2005).Making Noise: Extended Techniques after Exper ...
s on the flute, especially
microtonality
Microtonal music or microtonality is the use in music of microtones—interval (music), intervals smaller than a semitone, also called "microintervals". It may also be extended to include any music using intervals not found in the customary Wes ...
, and performs on instruments including a complete set of
quarter tone (
Kingma system) flutes.
[John Fonville]
, ''Music.UCSD.edu''. Accessed September 05, 2014. He has premiered works by composers including
Ben Johnston,
Salvatore Martirano,
Joji Yuasa
is a Japanese composer of contemporary classical music.Luciana Galliano, ''The Music of Joji Yuasa'' ed. Peter Burt. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.
Early life and education
Joji Yuasa was born in Kōriyama, Fukushima and is a self-taug ...
,
Roger Reynolds, Hiroyuki Itoh, and Paul Koonce.
He is a member of the Tone Road Ramblers, the Eolus Quintet, and the
UCSD
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Department of Music's Performance Lab.
Fonville is the author of ''Microtonal
Fingerings for Flute'' (1987), ''A Pedagogical Approach to the Flute
Etudes of
Joachim Andersen'' (1981), and "
Ben Johnston's Extended Just Intonation: A Guide for Interpreters" (1991).
Fonville is the flute player, and is listed as such, on the recording credits for
the theme song of the 1971 film ''
Shaft'', recorded by
Isaac Hayes in 1971.
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AllMusic
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s François Couture describes Fonville as, "one of the strongest contemporary flutists."
References
Further reading
*
La Berge, Anne. 2001. "Mongrel Tuning: The Temperamental Flute". In ''The Ratio Book: A Documentation of the Ratio Symposium, Royal Conservatory, The Hague, 14–16 December 1992'', edited by Clarence Barlow, 44–48. Feedback Papers 43. Cologne: Feedback Studio.
* Perlove, Nina, and Sophie Cherrier. 1998. "Transmission, Interpretation, Collaboration: A Performer's Perspective on the Language of Contemporary Music: An Interview with Sophie Cherrier". ''
Perspectives of New Music'' 36, no. 1 (Winter): 43–58.
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American flautists
American male composers
21st-century American composers
Living people
University of California, San Diego faculty
21st-century American male musicians
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century flautists