Chapters
Vibration of the reed: very wide shade spectrum
Example with the basset horn - 0:00:41 - 0:01:09
Example with the contrabass clarinet - 0:01:09 - 0:01:50
Anecdote about feeling vibrations : Le Balcon, Peter Eötvös - 0:01:50 - 0:02:27
Example with a higher note with the bass clarinet - 0:02:27 - 0:02:53
Same example the with B-flat clarinet - 0:02:53 - 0:03:15
Advice : make maximum use of dynamics
Different variations of sound
To vibrate slowly : for a sorrowful melody - 0:03:52 - 0:04:29
Much faster vibration - 0:04:29 - 0:04:50
Slower and wider oscillation : with lower lip and jaw open - 0:04:50 - 0:05:30
To notate these subtleties like Grisey
Example forte and piano
Indications by Franck Bedrossian
We met as Sparks, Franck Bedrossian (Bar 43)
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Franck BEDROSSIAN, We met as Sparks, Verlan Neue Musik, Berlin, 2015. 
Gérard GRISEY, Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil, Ed. Ricordi, Milan, 1998.