Michael Lytle

Michael Lytle is a clarinetist and improviser working in experimental ensemble music, bringing the clarinet's pitch, articulation and extended sound possibilities into open musical forms.

Creative Sources documents his clarinet playing on Itinerant (CS472), an improvising trio with pianist Denman Maroney and percussionist Stephen Flinn. The recording, also available through Flinn's discography, captures the interaction of clarinet with Maroney's distinctive hyperpiano techniques and Flinn's broad percussive vocabulary. The ensemble format allows each player to contribute independently to the construction of form, rhythm and changing sound textures.