This compendium of experimental playing techniques for brass instruments has been written for composers as well as for interpreters. Exploring new areas of technique always means crossing boundaries, since conventional solutions and recipes of standard instrumental methods are seldom satisfactory and can even be counterproductive. The usual judgement of ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ ways to produce a tone interferes with the productivity and creativity necessary to go off the beaten path to make new music...

• Basic principles and structural considerations
• Basic physical and physiological principles
• Conventional tone production
• Alternative sound production
• Colouration during sound production
• Sound modulation after the sound production
• Additional activities
• Changes in instrument construction
• Combinations and outlook