About the Music

Goose Waddle! for bass clarinet choir (7 parts) is a fast-paced and rhythmically driven piece inspired by quirky videos of geese dressed in children’s clothing, often seen on social media. The piece is also available in a version for bass clarinet quartet.

The work reflects the fragmented and fast-moving nature of contemporary media, where short and often surreal clips appear in rapid succession in our feeds. Drawing on this, the music shifts quickly between rhythmic ideas, creating a sense of constant motion that echoes the experience of scrolling through social media.

At the same time, the piece embraces a playful and humorous character, drawing on the cute and quirky nature of pets seen on social media, keeping the listener engaged throughout. In this way, Goose Waddle! captures both the quirkiness of the digital world and the way it shapes our attention spans.

Score: 16 pages. Parts: 4 pages each. Extended-range instruments NOT required.

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About the Composer

Basha Öberg is a Swedish-Russian composer and interdisciplinary artist whose work reimagines what sheet music can be. Moving beyond ink on paper, she creates performative scores, including works in the form of board games and 3D puzzles. Her practice is rooted in a craft-based approach, combining disciplines such as graphic design and 3D modeling to shape musical experiences. Through this, she brings together theatrical elements and combinatorial approaches to her work.

Raised in a musical and artistic environment, Öberg was early exposed to the world of performance through her mother, an opera singer. She began piano lessons at the age of five, and by the age of ten she was already performing for audiences. At the same time, she showed a strong aptitude for drawing and was encouraged to develop her visual artistic skills alongside music. Through her experience at the piano, she developed an early interest in composition through improvisation. As a child, before learning traditional notation, she created her own visual representations of the keyboard on paper, adding illustrative instructions to guide how the music was played.

During high school, she studied percussion and performed in a drum corps ensemble, an experience that shaped the playful and rhythmically driven character of her music. Later, during her composition studies at Luleå University of Technology, she became engaged with the contemporary music scene and began developing the fusion between graphic design and composition that now defines her artistic practice.

Alongside her compositional work, she develops pedagogical materials that make music more accessible to beginners, using visual and playful methods to introduce the fundamentals of basic music theory in intuitive and engaging ways. She also collaborates with other musicians as a visual designer, creating graphic material and visual identities that support and extend their work.

Through her practice, Öberg continues to explore how music can be experienced not only as sound, but as interaction, art, and play.