Premiere Clarinet Without Organs II - Pulpesque

Elena Perales Andreu
25.04.2026
Only Connect Festival, Oslo, Norway

(Only Connect Festival review)
by Robert Barry, in Seismograf,
03.05.2026

[...] a thread of unorthodox instrumental preparations ran through the festival line-up, from Snæbjörnsdóttir’s activated tam-tams to an ingenious work for a disembodied wind instrument, performed by the duo Araia on Saturday night. Jorge Gómez Elizondo’s Clarinet without Organs II – Pulpesque (2026) was played by Elena Perales Andreu using just the mouthpiece of the instrument appended to a system of bright orange and green plastic tubes suspended over the stage like an octopus mid-autopsy. Her breath was channeled from one tube to the other, not with keys but a series of valves and taps, making the performance look more like plumbing than music, but the sound – cascades of great deep, breathy whooshes and tender whistles – was mesmerising.