with numerous musicians and musical styles over animate and inanimate energies. Behind the or to record the paint peeling off the old Fender based in Dublin, Ireland. Her compositional output soundart. In 2003 co-founder of the record label walking with others, listening to environmental the years. His debut album ‘Exiles’ was released melody, close to the sound differences dissolve; Stratocaster?. Whatever when the sound engineer mainly consists of fixed media pieces, which fragmentrecordings with following cd releases. sound, and my own improvised singing. I am to broad critical acclaim in 2005. A new album inaudible made audible, wave and grain of heard Otomo’s music he decided this wasn’t music have been broadcast and performed at a number Since 2005 more and more sound installations, very grateful to Derek for sharing his special walk ‘Acrobat’, produced by Gerry Diver, is scheduled nature. and cut out the low end, he cut out the high end of festivals, installations and concert events sometimes in cooperation with sculptors and visual with me. for release in July 2011. www.j-eoin.com Raw material: field recordings (using mic, and what was left was not Otomo’s music at all. I worldwide including New Music Festival Cal State artists. Since 2008 live-performance of improvised Viv Corringham is a British sound artist, vocalist hydrophone, contact mic) from one quiet saved the bits he cut out and re-recorded the paint Fullerton, Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music electronic music based on his field recordings. and composer, currently based in Minneapolis, /Gary Mentanko afternoon in small Austrian village and glade high peeling off the old Fender Strat and put them all Festival, Liverpool Biennial, Quebec Biennial and Member of Cooperativa Neue Musik, DEGEM, Trio USA. Recent work appeared in New York, Toronto, TATUNTAT, Trio Beuter, Höger, Schwieger also as Portugal, San Francisco, and Istanbul. Depatterning-Smudged above in mountains; bells, stream, voices, birds, back “Together Again”. Futuresonic UK. With funding from the Arts Council 35 interior of teeming wood ants nest... DANNY McCARTHY is one of Ireland’s pioneers of Ireland she studied at the CCMIX (Centre de the Ensemble Theatrum Somnium Medusae. Works Her work usually involves walking, as a method of Cartography, 2 channels, 3.53, 2011 Alexander Baker lives in South West UK. He has of performance art and sound art and he création musicale Iannis Xenakis), Paris in 2005 and with filmmakers and directors. investigating people’s relationship with place and “Smudged Cartography” is part of a larger been variously, simultaneously and sequentially continues to be a leading exponent exhibiting and completed the Mamori Sound Project in Brazil with how that links to an interior landscape of memory audio series called The Unofficial Countryside. a free jazz and improv percussionist, freelance performing both in Ireland and abroad. In 2006, Francisco Lopez in 2008. /Tony Doyle and association. The experiences and materials Named after the book by Richard Mabey, these scriptwriter for radio, tv and theatre, teacher he founded the Quiet Club with Mick O’Shea, a [email protected] Universal Theme, 6.32, 2011 gathered on these walks find their way into recordings examine how urban areas and natural specialising in art, drama and music. His sound floating membership sound (art and electronics) 52 installations, recordings and concert pieces. spaces have become layered on top of one work has been heard on air, in galleries and at performance group. He is a founding director of /Karel Von Kleist The conceptual process was based on developing She has had many awards, including a McKnight an abstract soundscape around film music. Composer Fellowship for 2006 through the another like transparencies. Through oscillations, festivals/events in Europe, Canada, the USA and Triskel Arts Centre and the National Sculpture Harbourscape, 7.06 outdoor recordings, and shifting audio filters, South America. He has a netlabel release due out Factory. A book + CD on his work entitled “LISTEN 48 Proceeding with a concept that would in some American Composers Forum. I’m attempting to convey the indistinct nature late summer on Impulsive Habitat. Hear” was published by Farpoint Recordings, “Harbourscape” is an outtake of a work-in-progress way be referential to film music and yet would www.vivcorringham.org of places due to the tenacious reclamation by www.solublefisherman.wordpress.com and his work has appeared on numerous CDs, “Resonance”, which will be about 60 minutes exploit an electronic sound palette derived from an wildlife in towns and cities. The recording was most recently “Soundcast 4x4(+1)” on Farpoint long. It is purely composed of sounds that have orchestral recording. The resulting work is derived /Pamela Myers made on the open source software Supercollider /Andrew Mc Govern Recordings. He has been involved in several been captured by Von Kleist’s microphones and from the 30 second fanfare from Universal motion high-quality field recorder. (He has an archive picture studios and developed into a 6’30’’ piece. Easy, 2.15 and controlled with the m-Log, an interactive Whale Song, 5.43 curatorial projects including INTERMEDIA Festival 57 electronic device housed in a cross-sectioned log 40 1990-2002, “For Those Who Have Ears” book+CD containing around 1,000 hours of recordings). Tony Doyle is a composer/producer/performer. He Easy is an atmospheric sound piece achieved by of a yew tree. This composition tries to create a sound (with Julie Forrester). “Sound Out” (co curated The focus is on the overtones of the metals, their has performed both in Ireland and abroad. Doyle mixing field recordings obtained using a variety of Gary Mentanko is a Dublin, Ireland based landscape. I got the idea for this composition with David Toop),”Bend It Like Beckett” CD Project, microtonal character, dynamics, and interaction. No is currently working on a collaborative project with microphones. Recordings of the mechanics of audio sound artist working in hacked and handmade after talking to one of my friends who was “Rediscovering Locality (A Sonology Of Cork Sound synthesizers were used in this instance. Some of the the artist Linda O’Keeffe (Irl) and the composer equipment, record and cassette players, are layered electronics. Born in the late 70’s in rural traveling in New Zealand. He told me, he had Art)” CD project Art Trail. “Just Listen” Seminar sounds have been recorded in an actual harbour (= Guillermo Gregorio (USA). He will also be taking over recordings of the electrical magnetic fields Saskatchewan, Canada, his project Depatterning paid a lot of money to go whale watching. After +Installations (co curated with Sean Taylor) for the aural setting of his youth). Others were drawn part in this year’s Irish Composition Summer School that these devices create. Mechanical sounds are attempts to recall the haze of early memories spending hours on a boat they finally got to see National Sculpture Factory. from several extraordinary sheet metal plates, then with Clarence Barlow. naturally ignored when we listen to music, however through electronic interludes, rhythmic decay and a whale surface. My friend was unmoved by the mixed, positioned, and ‘treated’ in Nuendo. the sounds of the electro-magnetic fields that these the sound of farm equipment. Through exhaustive experience, as it only surfaced very briefly. This /David Lloyd-Howells Karel von Kleist is an interdisciplinary artist, /Mark Hall-Patch devices create around us are mostly inaudible. Easy got me thinking. What would it be like to see a originally from Amsterdam, Holland. He practised creates a rhythmic soundscape juxtaposing sounds sound collecting and audio manipulation his goal Chromosomes, 7.02 Nightfallllll, 2:46, 2011 is to catalogue a “culture of lost Canada” and whale underwater and to be able to hear its song. 44 as a visual artist and played with sound from an 53 from older equipment with the computers and present it in ways almost remembered. In 2009, Andrew Mc Govern is a composer based in Life and death – summation and difference – cycles early age, alternating Art College with (technical) Nightfallllll is a one track from a series of sonic smartphones that are used to listen to music. Each he started the handmade, EP only label, Wist Rec Dublin, Ireland. His compositions consist of for a crown of time. in-house training at the Netherlands Opera. He studies and experiments investigating phonetic contribute uniquely to the experience of listening to with Liechtenstein artist Manfred Naescher. electroacoustic pieces. He is currently working on David Lloyd-Howells acousmatic oeuvre makes co-founded multimedia theatre group Pasta B reversal in music. Nightfallllll is an appropriation recorded music. www.depatterning.com his Masters at Dundalk Institute of Technology, certain demands of listeners’ imagination. With where he worked as a technical/artistic director. In of an existing track by The Incredible String Band Pamela Myers is a multi disciplinary artist. She Ireland where he is specializing in interactive exotic titles, ie Fractosonic Graffiti, Insects’ a freelance capacity he created and/or produced called Nightfall. I have been interested in the is from Athlone and studied at Moate Business audio visual installations. Convention, etc he eclipses the ubiquitous music, soundscapes and sound effects/design for relation between popular music and deliberate College before continuing her studies Limerick /Lucia Chung programme note, allowing the music composed, numerous (often award-winning) film, television, hidden messages and decided to probe some bands School of Art and Design. In 2008, she was selected R, stereo, 4.38, 2011 36 /Angela Antle performed and produced by this international radio, ballet, and theatre productions. In 1997 that have yet to be discovered using this process as critics choice for review in CIRCA magazine. In but who have similar esoteric belief backgrounds. 2009, she was selected for one of the Westmeath R is a track from the forthcoming split release on Fogo Island composer, poet and sound artist, to speak for itself. he moved to Ireland, attracted by the stunning murmur records in Japan, Colour of Quantum, 41 Chromosomes, 1993 is no exception, obviously a landscapes and by the fact that here, “you are close Through a freeware software program I record the Emerging Artist Awards. She is now based between between artists Lucia H Chung (Taiwan) and Yuki This soundscape was recorded over two days on popular opus ‘striking a chord’ with listeners on to the real sound – and real silence”. track in real time playing the song from the end Cork and Athlone. She primarily works as a visual Aida (Japan). Inspired by the concept of quantum, Fogo Island in June 2011. Identified as one of varied venues, which began as the soundtrack for Karel von Kleist, Hayes Cross, Clonlea, Clonakilty, to the beginning using my mouse arrow cursor to artist but recently has developed her practice to Lucia H Chung uses different types of noise, the four corners of the earth by the Flat Earth Manhattan Cable TV, New York, June 1994 and as Co Cork search through the track at an extremely slow pace. include experimental sound installations. notably white noise, as her raw material. Through Society, Fogo Island is a mysterious place. In the sound dimension of a film Geiger Counter, at Published by Blue Crow Publishing, 085 1336101. I use the arrow cursor as an exploration tool to www.pamelamyers.info laborious process of filtering and processing, the soundscape you will hear storyteller Benson the Brighton [UK] Fringe Film Festival, March 1998. [email protected] draw overtop of the track sometimes running the Lucia utilises white noise that is generated from Hewitt telling ghost stories in the Deep Bay Perhaps also edifying awareness of the profound cursor forwards and backwards in an attempt to /Simon Atkinson different methods and uncovers different musical Anglican Church. Myself, Writer Lisa Moore, relationship between music and time – ie, eighteen /Linda O’Keeffe reveal other hidden elements that may exist within Filmmaker Mary Lewis and artist Nicola Hawkins the track. After the track is completed it usually interiorities iii, 9:57, 2008 patterns inherent within the spectrum of the years is but a step, when the music still speaks Trains, 10.00, 2010 58 medium. discover something of rare beauty and mystery as music, retaining its timeless quality. So this 49 runs three to four times the original running time. I The interiorities cycle began with an extended Lucia H Chung was born in Taiwan. Currently in the landwash just off Joe Batt’s Arm harbour. opportunity to hear Chromosomes in the context This work is part of a collaborative project in then switch the tempo to recreate a close match to composition for feedback instrument with various conducting her practice-led research Sound There are also summer ‘mummers’ and music of cultural exchange between Celtic cousins is process with the artist Slavek kwi. This particular the original track’s running time which then creates eccentric ‘found object’ controllers (candle flames in the Air: Specific Medium without Specific recorded at ‘a time’ in the St. Pat’s Church Hall something of a record and a special delight. Thank work is based on a live 30sec recording of trains a new shade of the original. My intent is to recreate and resistors, pewter Victorian teapots etc.) and Form in the Music Department at Goldsmiths, in Tilting. As well as voices and sounds from you all. David Lloyd-Howells, Cardiff 1942 - recorded by Slavek which he gave to me, I then one full album with this process. 8-channel electroacoustic sound, which was University of London. She has an M.A. in the ‘boil-up’ to launch the Fogo Island Arts www.david-lloyd-howells.org.uk had to use only this sample to create a 10minute Mark Hall-Patch is a Canadian born artist living in premiered at a concert at Fylkingen, Stockholm Sculpture (Distinction), Winchester School of Art, Corporation’s newest studio in Shoal Bay. Rainbows in the Weave 17’ 04”, is available from work. This work then became about the process of Cork, Ireland. His studies include illustration, design in 2007 with John Richards. (The music was University of Southampton, and a B.F.A. in Fine Angela Antle is a visual and sound artist and cdbaby.com [ USA ] on compact disc and download. movement, repetition and danger. and more recently video & sound media. commissioned by the Society for Electroacoustic Art (First Class Hons), Changhua University of broadcaster who is resident in St. John’s, NL. Antle O Keeffe has exhibited in China the USA, Canada Music in Sweden.) I have produced a subsequent Education, Taiwan Lucia also performs as half of creates works that speak about current socio- /Florian Hartlieb and Europe. Her work is predominantly sound /Massimo Daví series of pieces that explore various types of economic issues. She has studied fine art at The based with a focus on installation, performance feedback material in different ways, and investigate a collaborative project, mimosa|moize, with her Out Of The Fridge Treblinka, 5.00, 2009 partner Martin J. Thompson. They have performed Ontario College of Art and Design. In 1 997, she 45 and radio. She is currently pursuing a PhD at N.U.I. 54 the seemingly unlikely meeting points and concept-led minimal electronic music around the participated in the Ontario College of Art Design’s fixed Media – stereo, 4.22, 2011 Maynooth exploring the ‘Socially Constructed Behind The Melody contradictions of acousmatic and post-punk ‘dirty U.K., and have released their work with murmur prestigious Florence Program, winning the Heinz Out of the Fridge originally was composed in Soundscape’. She released an album with “Treblinka” is Sound-Based Music where electronics’ aesthetic traditions. This third piece in records (Japan), Dragon’s Eye Recordings (U.S.A) Jordan Memorial Prize for the work she produced 2010 as a ballet-insertion for a new staging of Farpointrecordings, Metamorphosis and Praxis “concrete” audio sources are manipulated to the cycle is a simple, meditative ‘deep listening’ and Duckbay Records (U.S.A.) there. Antle was the inaugural Lynn Donoghue Christoph-Willibald Gluck’s opera „Il Parnaso in 2010. She is a member of the Deeplistening obtain the core of the piece. It is a work that piece in which I attempt to strike a balance Memorial Artist in Residence at Spadina Museum Confuso“. Alienated sounds from a refridgerator, Ensemble,http://deeplisteningensemble. condemns the horrors of the Holocaust and will be between sculptural intervention and allowing /Alan Gleeson in Toronto. Antle also hosted and co-produced like the fridgebuzzing, shaking ice cubes or the wordpress.com/participants/, editor of the journal part of an installation project to be realized in Italy electronic circuits freedom to ‘sing’ in their own “Socket” CBC Radio’s first national program on clicking noise inside the freezer, shall produce a interferencejournal.com and curator and chair of idiosyncratic ways. The music is concerned with Close to the sound - Quaking Aspen, 6.59, 2011 for the Holocaust Memorial Day 2012. Pre-recorded 37 visual arts. She is currently the host and producer high tension and create an „icy“ atmosphere. The sound art for ISSTA, the Irish Sound, Science and audio material ranges from survivors interviews to highly delayed gestures, the psychological musical This work, as all my works of the past year is an of WAM, a cultural magazine show on CBC Radio first part of the work is about constructing and Technological association.www.lindaokeeffe.com wartime radio broadcasts, including Himmler, Hitler spaces of such sound can be used to create, and a improvisation. Using software I have developed that examines our “Galoot of a Culture.” Her deconstructing, with a lot of rhythmic elements, but and Mussolini speeches and a Poetry by Italian concern with the transcendental. It is intended as a a “composed instrument” that allows me to work has been collected by the Government of no straight beat. The second part has less confusion /Luca Nasciuti writer Monica Miuccio. The piece concludes its track for an eventual CD outcome of the project. Behind the melody Simon Atkinson has worked as musician and express and perform my aesthetic style. Sonically Newfoundland and Labrador as well as the City and there is more collocation of the material. Hopscotch III, 5.1 surround journey with a prayer. Digital Grand-Piano Chords the work reflects the contrasting soundscapes of St. John’s. Angela Antle is represented by The Florian Hartlieb (*1982/Unna) is a german 50 educator in a diverse range of contexts, and electroacoustic composition, 4.21, 2011 and Sequences are based based on intervals of found in nature and the din of city life. It Christina Parker Gallery in Newfoundland and the composer and multimedia artist, based in Vienna/ sixth of a tone. I got a full mark Diploma of Piano is particularly committed to the composition, encourages a method sometimes referred to as Sandra Goldie Gallery in Montreal. Austria. He studied composition with Thomas Hopscotch III is part of a triptych of compositions at the Conservatory “L.Campiani” of Mantova performance, and study of electroacoustic music. – Near the inaudible reduced listening or deep listening and therefore Neuhaus at the ICEM of the Folkwang University under the same theme: the childrenís game (Italy) in 1986. Between 1984 and1988 I won His recent creative work has included acousmatic is designed to be experienced at a low volume. /Bojan Gagic of the Arts in Essen, Germany and Karlheinz Essl hopscotch. The sound source used for this work national and international piano competitions then music, interdisciplinary projects, collaborative and community arts projects. He sees as critical The source material all derived from cityscapes INTERIEUR, 2011, 6.06 at the University of Music and Performing Arts was recorded at the Royal College of Music in I started Composition studies.My Music experience and forests’, subverting their associations is 42 Vienna. Hartlieb is holding a diploma in electronic London where students practicing their own ranges from Classical to Rock/Pop to Contemporary the scholarly understanding as well as public This work was developed as relation of lots of intentional, which encourages a reappraisal of the composition from the Folkwang University. In instruments (mainly violin and piano) in their and Experimentalism. In 1997 “Ottima Musica appreciation of this music, to which end he co- personal facts from history of my family. My sonic world we are creating. 2009 he was awarded with the first prize at the rooms have been captured while walking along Edizioni” (Italy) published my Electroacoustic work directs the Electroacoustic Resource Site project grandfather, Petar Gagic, was the commander http://soundcloud.com/alangleeson international composition competition Jeu de the corridors. The composition offers an approach “Lame Lucenti… Tacerai Per Sempre...” in its first (EARS). Simon has lived in Leicester for the last ten of marginal borderland of Yugoslavia and Italy Selection of works from the http://gleesonalan.wordpress.com Temps/Times Play (JTTP). His works has been played to sonic experience that merges abstract and version.Music activity stopped in 2000. I resumed years, where he is Principal Lecturer and Subject during the beginning of World War Two. After in renowned festivals such as ICMC (Huddersfield), anecdotal discourses, where relations to the composing in 2009 when Concorde Ensemble Leader for Music, Technology and Innovation at De the capitulation of Yugoslavia he was kept Sounding Out 5 (Bournemouth), Next Generation sound source and its manipulated outcome are premiered Fluidi for flute solo at Hugh Lane Gallery Montfort University. /Paulo Chagas imprisoned for three years, until 1944, when Almost Silence, 6.58 4.0 (ZKM Karlsruhe) Tsonami (Buenos Aires), intertwined and inextricable, yet malleable, allowing in Dublin. I am a member of ICC. Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre: Hilltown New Music Festival 38 Italy capitulated too. Afterwards he immigrated Musicacoustica Beijing (Beijing), etc. sonic images to be identified and narratives to be http://www.mti.dmu.ac.uk to Australia where he managed to get a job in a This composition was created and recorded unfolded. Electroacoustic Resource Site (EARS) project: http:// toy factory. My grandmother, Milica Gagic, spent /Matthew Whiteside especially for Hilltown New Music Festival 2011. /Harry Moore Luca Nasciuti is a composer trained in www.ears.dmu.ac.uk 2011 Call for Works that time working as a primary school teacher Organic Construct, 8.59 The purpose is mainly to build a creative-listening electroacoustic composition, classical music, 55 on Yugoslavian islands, raising their two children Water “0 – 9”, 75 sec (repeated process for all those who can hear it, compelling 46 visual and performing arts. His work spans Organic Construct evokes the aural illusion of /Cormac Crawley all by herself. This period of my grandparents life three times) the listener to a position of greater concentration from installation, to video and performance art, a metallic environment inhabited by chittering, Passage of the Masses, 14.50, 2011 that they spend separated had a great impact Water is comprised of field recordings made focusing on the relation between acoustic and 59 and attention to details of everyday life, giving glistening creatures. The original source material on their communication in that matter that they Upon a journey to an unknown location, we often value to the silence and discovering his inner in France in 2009, mixed in 2011. The various electroacoustic sound, and the interplay of sonic comprised of a hip flask and rain recorded in didn’t communicate at all for at least fifty years. find ourselves wandering, oblivious to purpose melodies. Here are combined, in a proportion environments shape the sound of running water. and visual stimuli within site-specific contexts. His the summer of 2010 in Italy. Organic Construct They were completely unaware of each others or routine, content to take in new surroundings. not necessarily balanced, a sultry bass-clarinet, It is a brief wander through an environment of practice is based on the collection and processing download link: https://files.me.com/mwhiteside/ whereabouts all until 2001. My grandfather finally This piece bridges the wandering, dreamlike state some electronic effects, whispering flutes, birds rhythms and textures. of sonic environments with social and historical 1uvz9f.wav managed to contact my grandmother with help of the experience to the “reawakening” point of singing, sounds of water, a craft harp and some Harry Moore: connotations, and it links and blurs the boundaries Matthew Whiteside, originally from Northern of Red Cross organization in year 2001, but she the journey when we must leave this new location street sounds. I studied sculpture, investigating all material and between reality and imagination. Ireland, is currently studying Masters in The Herds Lounge refused any further communication. They both behind and return home once again to face reality. Credits: João Pedro Viegas: Bass-clarinet, Paulo media. Currently I work predominately in sound www.lucanasciuti.com [email protected] Composition with Dr. Gareth Williams at The died within few months period in year 2002. The piece addresses public transportation systems Chagas: Flute, Craft Harp, Electronics and Field and photographic mediums, and am located in Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. In Town Zadar, at the Adriatic see shore, was the and how the community is compelled to interact recordings Cork city. [email protected] 2010 he was awarded a Bachelor of Music with town where the Italian prison has been situated, /Marcus Beuter through the use of such systems. It considers the LISTENING ROOM Paulo Chagas is a composer, music teacher www.harrymoore.net honours from Queen’s University Belfast where he and after the War Zadar was appertained to Faszination Maschine – der mensch many experiences within such channels of transport and multi-instrumentist. He has dedicated his 51 studied composition under Prof. Piers Hellawell. He Yugoslavia. Zadar was the town where my in der reflektion, 6:55, 44.100 hz, 16 bit, both from the perspective of the traveller, and intervention to several strands of contemporary is also a founding member of Edit-Point and Said grandmother lived until she died; she lived in it /Hilary Mullaney of the passer-by, and how various channels of music, electro-acoustic, ambiental, free stereo, 2011 Ensemble, both based in Glasgow. He has received and with all the changes that happened in Zadar Green Gates, 4.32, 2009 transport are woven into society. improvisation, jazz and chamber music. He 47 Faszination maschine is an sound installation with grants from the Bliss/PRSF Composer Bursary Fund between 1941 and 2002: socialism, mass tourism, This fixed media composition is part of a collection Cormac is a postgraduate student of Queen’s still works on music production, promotion of an original duration of 80 minutes. It has been and the Sir Hamilton Harty Scholarship in order Croatian War of Independence, uncontrolled of works exploring the use of site specific field University, Belfast. Having completed his MA in concerts and created in 2009. The duration of this excerpt is to attend soundSCAPE and is also in receipt of postwar capitalism. All those structures, ways recordings and the influence this landscape has Music Technology he enrolled in the Sonic Arts festivals of improvised music and also writing 6:55 minutes. The sounds used are processed the RSAMD Scholarship (2010-2012) and May of lives and relations from the period before the on the compositional process. This work uses Research Centre of Queen’s to further explore the about music in magazines and blogs. field recordings. The only processing used to every Turtle Scholarship to further his studies. For more World War Two are museum materials. research interests he realised during his Masters. His recordings of the sound produced when wind sound is to slow them down and bring them into a information on Matthew, his music and current Bojan Gagic, multimedia artist, born 1969, based PhD is based on interactive composition in relation blows through the gates of my home in Dublin. composition. The sounds that have been used: bus, projects please follow the link below. www. farpoint recordings /Alexander Baker in Zagreb. www.bojangagic.com to the natural audible environment. He develops On first hearing, it was a mystery as to how or train, telephone,washing machine, gambling den, matthewwhiteside.co.uk [email protected] interactive scenarios that harness the relationship 39‘almost somewhere...almost where it was produced until I followed it to its roller coaster, bank statement printer, wrecking ball between environment and the audio produced in anywhere’ source. The varying sound which is produced travels and of a belfry. around the building providing a beautiful contrast /Viv Corringham that environment. This often involves the use of Processed field recordings Stereo 48kHz/24bit /Danny McCarthy Marcus Beuter was born in 1968 in Wuppertal, Hilltown New Music Festival is funded by the Arts Council and Westmeath County Council. to the unsettling sounds of a storm. This piece is DISEGNO sensory technology interacting with various aspects .wav, 6:42, 2011 Hilltown Blues (for Otomo) Germany. Journeys through Europe, Iran, Pakistan, 56 43 an attempt to capture my relationship with this of the climatic environment which will ultimately A few hours compressed into a few minutes. Laos, Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Gambia, Senegal, A walk with Derek Shiel, 3.36, 2011 When Otomo came to Ireland he came to visit the soundmark which to me is both comforting and assist the compositional output. Call for works co-ordinated by Anthony Kelly & David Stalling What was close made far, what was far brought USA. Working hereby on an own archive of field DISEGNO is part of my ongoing Shadow-walks hometown of Irelands greatest bluesman. To pay familiar. [email protected] close; interior harmonics, exterior melodies; recordings.Since 2001 intensified interest in project, which involves three main elements: Booklet design by Doreen Kennedy homage at the shrine? To dance on his grave? Hilary Mullaney (b. 1979, Mayo) is a composer The Herds Lounge Survival & Equinox amongst others. David has also Blip song attempts to reinterpretate the classical, This is a short extract from one of our live government’s “Axis of Evil” propaganda) and College, he worked in New York City as a /Jonathan Nangle /Stuart Russell released a number of recordings with Krautrock well known sound of violin. One simple tone improvisation sessions. London based musicians, Illuminated (setting texts about sex and sexuality composer and sound designer for television, Coastal Field Recordings, 7.24 Radar Point, Stereo, 88.2 KHz , 24 LISTENING ROOM legend Roedelius, member of influential ‘70’s and a lot of whish and swish made by oscilators/ Kacper Zieminian, Peter Smith and James Stephen by writers from a wide range of world cultures). radio, and film. Andrew recently completed an 26 30 group Cluster. This relationship grew out of their modulators/granular synthesis ensamble create Finn, each coming from different backgrounds, Trained at Eastman School of Music and Bard MA in composition at the University at Buffalo, I’ve become increasingly interested in making bit, 7.00, 2011 Close to the sound - Behind the mutual work on Jameos Del Agua, an ambient an equivocal atmosphere. Balance between the met in 2007 at Middlesex University where making College at Simon’s Rock, she has had performances where he studied with Cort Lippe and Jeffrey field recordings of late, focusing in on my Radar Point is a descriptive piece based on a melody – Near the inaudible concert film made for Brian Eno’s Opal company, energy of sound and appeasement it’s a main noise together was a natural consequence. The and installations in more than 15 countries. More Stadelman. Andrew is currently working towards surroundings,both the immediately audible world location on the Thames Estuary, close to where Selection of works from the Hilltown New Music which David directed and edited. Recent music topic of this track. Fischerle is the solo project of three form an improvisational musical act where at unfurl.org. his PhD in composition at the University of Florida and the hidden audio world. All of the recordings I live. I responded to the call with my experience Festival 2011 Call for Works. This was an open releases include Erebus & Terror, a very dark and Mateusz Wysocki, focusing on the soft edges of there is no focus on musical melody, but rather on in Gainesville. in this composition were recorded in and around of very subtle sounds that can be heard in that call for artists, composers and musicians to send very ambient album with Orb collaborator Tom the genre known as dub-techno. Starting from texture and constantly changing the Dun Laoghaire to Killiney coastal region area with a compositional desire to make quiet a short audio work that responds in some way /Rob Peterson Green released on UK label HS and Still Rivers at fairly literal interpretation of dub, the project dynamics.They combine a variety of instruments and are presented unprocessed save for some sounds very loud and vice versa. There is also both to the above title. The pieces could be a sound Roof Cave In, We All Cave In, 5.00 /Dan Tramte Night, an ambient/dance electro release on Dublin developed in a direction which is to absorb all and sound-sources such as electronic toys, circuit 17 corrective editing and the composed presentation. implications of a melody and a resulting variation work, a music composition, a field recording or an Eight Gluons, 7.00, Fixed label “Psychonavigation intriguing sounds. Fischerle avoids characteristic for bending, mixers, turntables, bass guitar, found This is a series of layered field recordings of the 22 Jonathan Nangle is a composer whose work heard in the last section. The original theme is excerpt from a larger work. dub-techno metaphysical pathos and descriptive objects, self-built instruments, guitar, laptop, repairing of a roof on a building that is nearly 100 electroacoustics, 2009 explores many diverse fields ranging from notated not revealed. This work is a combination of field terminology. Fischerle’s achievements are seven feedback, and a whole array of effects units to years old. The building houses Elsewhere Living Eight Gluons is a synthesis of eight short electronic acoustic and electro-acoustic compositions, recordings, studio and synthesized sounds. Featuring works by: /Diana Rotaru distinct EP’s, each of which is a flirt with various create interesting and dynamic improvisations. Museum in Greensboro, NC. The recordings are works called Gluons. These so-called Gluons were through live and spatially distributed electronics, to Stuart Russell is a uk-based composer who Jed Speare, Daniel Mayer, David Bickley, Diana enter no silence, 11.06, 2011, for 4 genres of music like deep-house, minimal, ambient This focus on improvisation allows for a creation unaffected, not stretched or compressed, yet they commissioned by percussionist Olman Piedra to be video, interactive sound installation and electronic works with both electronic and conventional Rotaru, Donal MacErlaine, Donal Scullion, Mateusz ensemble or lounge. Fischerle published in netlabel Qunabu of sounds through a process of reaction and are cut and pasted and collaged layer upon layer to played in between pieces to avoid the awkward improvisation. His work has been commissioned instrumentation, often combining the two Wysocki, Francesc Llompart, Gintas Kraptavicius, This short work’s starting point was a poem by (PL) and foreign labels such as Instabil (DE), Entropy attention to changing mood, producing sounds give the sense of time compression as it relates to silence during percussion setups. They function and performed internationally by the RTÉ National approaches of live electronics and acousmatic Graeme Tuslow, Jon Aveyard, Kacper Ziemianin, E.E. Cummings, from which I have taken some Records (FR) and Vague Terrain (CA). In addition ranging from ambient to noise. Every performance the rate of entropic movement by the building and as miniature soundscapes that can be rearranged Symphony Orchestra, Crash Ensemble, Ensemble soundscapes. Stuart Russell often performs live Peter Smith and James Stephen Finn, La Cosa fragments. I have had a special interest lately for to solo work Mateusz Wysocki is a member of is different and unpredictable. its environment. and ‘glued’ together. Each corresponds to an Scratch the Surface, The Dublin Guitar Quartet, with laptop and devices. He curates electronic/new Preziosa, Rudolf Terland, Mariona Sagarra, Kala possibilities of creating trance in new music, for collectiv Poszmeg, Porcje Rosołowe, Jeremy Spill Robert Peterson is a sound artist originally from elementary particle. The Gluons chosen in Eight Ergodos Orchestra, Roberto Oliveira, Darragh music events at slackspace, Colchester. Projects Pierson, Rob Peterson, Ben McHugh, L. Scott Price, an aesthaetic of slowness, of distorted dream-like and The Wig Orchestra. He also runs the label Louisiana. He uses sound and installation to explore Gluons are Photon, Boson, Top, Lepton, Fermion, Morgan, Thérèse Fahy and David Bremner, have included writing/ producing soundscapes for Alex Dowling, Andrew Babcock, Dan Tramte, Daria /La Cosa Preziosa music space, and this work follows some of these Pawlacz Perski Tapes, which promotes independent sound as medicine, teaching as performance and Electron, Quark, and Strange. Several of these amongst others. In addition, his work has featured immersive installations, short films, happenings, Baiocchi, Hans Tammen, Bennie Reilly, Jonathan The unexpected in field recording ideas. enter no silence is dedicated to Ensemble music from Torun and the surrounding area. 13 the political choreographies of everyday life. Gluons can be heard on the CDCM label, Vol. 38. at a number of festivals, has been choreographed as well as writing scores for Gemini, Scaw, Sarah Nangle, Luigi Scotti & Teresa Águas, Alan Courtis, TaG and Irina Ungureanu. Romanian composer I (drama) [email protected] Dan Tramte is currently working towards his PhD for film and stage and has been broadcast Watts and Heather Roche (bass clarinet duo), New Guillaume Côté, Stuart Russell, Ignacio Baca- Diana Rotaru studied at the National University in music composition with a specialization in internationally both on radio and television. Noise and recently completed a joint commission Lobera, Gerard Gormely, Daniel Blinkhorn, J. Eoin, /Francesc Llompart Pons (2011 Field recording, 1.0, stereo, AIFF) of Music in Bucharest with tefan Niculescu and computer music media at the University of North for both Making Music and The National Trust at Gary Mentanko, Lucia Chung, Alan Gleeson, Paulo Ş Unearthed Utterance, 3:31 When out field recording, nature always manages /Ben McHugh Dan Dediu. Then, for a year, at the Conservatoire 8 Texas where he also serves as a GA for the Center /Luigi Scotti & Teresa Águas Anglesey Abbey, Cambs. Chagas, Alexander Baker, Andrew McGovern, to throw in an element of unexpectedness and Then and Now, 10.27, 2011 National Superieur de Musique et de Danse de Infinite paths travel across spectral space, drawing 18 for Experimental Music and Intermedia (CEMI). www.stuart-russell.co.ukhttp Angela Antle, Bojan Gagic, Danny McCarthy, surprise. This piece invites the listener to engage idrioema – spuria, 5.59, 2010 Paris with, among others, Frédéric Durieux. Rotaru labyrinths behind every sound, but we can’t hear A scratched CD, an old CD player, it’s funny what He he holds degrees in percussion performance 27 David Lloyd-Howells, Florian Hartlieb, Harry Moore, with what lies beyond the melody. The original s p u r i a is an attempt to demonstrate that reality has participated in different summer composition these paths and the infinite melodies they hide: catches your attention sometimes. This piece is (BM) and Composition (MM) from Bowling Green Hilary Mullaney, Karel Von Kleist, Linda O’Keeffe, aim was to record layers of crickets’ stridulation is always shaped by individual perceptions. How /Ignacio Baca-Lobera courses such as Acanthes (Metz, 2008), Voix they are just the strings that hold the sound based on the recording I took of my kitchen CD State University. Most of his works are inspired by Luca Nasciuti, Marcus Beuter, Tony Doyle, Mark with one leading in the foreground. Monitoring much the imagination distances us from reality? Azar y Raza, 4.00, 24 bits, stereo, Nouvelles-Royaumont (2002 and 2006) or the together. By removing all but a few partials of the player playing through a track of a solo violin CD, I the sciences and have been described as intensely 31 Hall Patch, Massimo Daví, Matthew Whiteside, I spotted a red-tailed Hawk on a tree nearby, How much it contributes to the perception of International Bartok Seminary (Szombathely, recorded sound of a choir, some of these paths found the resulting performance so interesting that rhythmic. 2011 Viv Corringham, Pamela Myers, Simon Atkinson, squeaking loudly (0:39’’). The little cricket didn’t reality? How much the observation influences the 2003) - thus interracting with composers such were sculpted in this piece forming a streaming I recorded it and edited the result. The title refers Like all my recent music, “Azar y Raza” is Cormac Crawley. expect that: not unlike a human, you can hear imagination? How much the imagination alters as Sciarrino, Harvey, Ferneyhough, Loevendie chant, distilled and different from the previous to the separation between the original material constructed around a human voice. Boundaries her pausing to assess the level of danger, before /Daria Baiocchi the observation? it has been implemented in 3 or Jarell. She has won numerous prizes, among sound. The articulation of the evaporated voice being located in the past (in this case Bach’s Violin between noise and vocal sounds, voice Works are presented continuously throughout the reprising her song (0:49”). This miniature drama Raga, 6.04 phases : -1 to record with contact microphones, which the Romanian Academy’s George Enescu remains fossilized in this uncovered utterance of Partita Prelude in Cmajor) and the manipulated 23 expressiveness and meaning are what I am most duration of the festival. holds in itself an insight into the universal fears the activity score of a computer. 2- to record the Award (2010), the ISCM-IAMIC Young Composer pure tones. This track was created using the SPEAR result being the present. Raga is an electronic music composition. All the interested in. There are moments when the human that we all share as natural creatures. activity of the computer while playing the first Award (World Music Days, Vilnius, 2008), the software during the year 2010. Francesc Llompart Ben has recently completed a BMus International electronic sounds come by the sitar sounds of Logic voice becomes something completely alien and La Cosa Preziosa (Susanna Caprara) is an award- recording. 3- to process the sounds produced /Jed Speare Irino Prize (Japan, 2004) or the George Enescu Pons was born in Maó (Menorca) in 1987. He in Composition and Musicology at NUI Maynooth Pro elaborated with Adobe Audition. The poetic of disturbing. winning emerging sound artist from the south and then to create a composition dictated by the excerpt from Prana, 2.46, 2011 Prize ex-aequo (Romania, 2003 and 2005). Her has studied at ESMuC, in Barcelona, finishing his with Jesse Ronneau and Martin O’ Leary. He has this piece is about man stresses that come from a Ignacio Baca-Lobera was born in Mexico City in 1 of Italy, specialising in acoustic ecology and Intellectual and Emotional Interpretation . reality as studies in composition this year with a dissertation studied with and received master-classes from: bad way to comunicate. The psychological attacks June 28,1957. He started his musical interests This excerpt is from a recording I made next to works are performed in Europe, Japan and U.S.A. on different approaches of space in composition. committed to producing original work (aural Vít Zouhar, Gordon Delap, John McLachlan, Kevin that we suffer everyday by other persons, media, an open and mutable interval of the infinite. as a self-taught musician. Later, he studied a medical hospital on an avenue traversed each Diana Rotaru is also a member of the experimental He has studied with catalan composer Bernat dreamscapes, soundscapes and experimental Volans and Laurent Pottier. He is the current wars, distruction of nature, are they rights? Do the Original sound composition lenght: 49:39 min. (3 composition with Julio Estrada in Mexico, and night walking home. Noticing it and bringing it syncretic group SeduCânt. Vivancos and with Lasse Thoresen and Georg organic tracks) by exploring the intersection President of the NUIM Composers’ Society, man’s neurosis come from that? The first longest tracks). Extract lenght presented to the Hilltown recently with Joji Yuasa, Jean-Charles François fully into cognizance, it is a very benign sound Friedrich Haas from which he has learned a way between the realism of field recording and the Secretary of The Quangle Contemporary Music wave sound in it is the man soul that is deep, alive Festival: 5.59 min. Medium: stereo wav file 24 and Brian Ferneyhough in the United States. He to me, these ringing tones of quiet, consonant /Donal MacErlaine of understanding the sound. His music has been possibilities of dramatic staging. A recipient of the Ensemble, and a member of the Irish Composers and need love and kindness. Is possible to divide it bit / 48.000 Hz. Original sound composition holds Ph. D. and Master degrees in composition clusters, that seemed to come out of nowhere; a Three Kelvin, 6.00, 2011 played in Spain, France and Switzerland with ‘Europe: A Sound Panorama’ prize for soundscape Collective and the Headspace Youth Arts Collective in three different part that respect the indian Raga lenght: 49:39 min. (3 tracks). Extract lenght from the University of California at San Diego. He ventilation system that I never quite determined or 5 Live recording of chamber ensemble (flute/piccolo, enthusiastic response. art, La CosaPreziosa performs regularly in both based in Lucan, Dublin. composition: the first part is slow and meditative, presented to the Hilltown Festival: 5.59 min. also has taken summer courses at IRCAM (1992) located. It is convolved with another sound, that clarinet/bass clarinet, tenor trombone, violin, Europe and America. In addition to hersoundwork, For more information on Ben and his work please the second one is fluently and the third part is an Medium: stereo wav file 24 bit / 48.000 Hz. Sound and Darmstadt (1990 and 1992). His chamber of a large passenger elevator, that contributes the cello, vibraphone/percussion Three degrees above Susanna is the founder of the first Artists’ visit: explosion of man soul. process: recording through contact microphones, and orchestral music explore techniques such as emergent, low and high sustained tones. /Gintas Kraptavicius absolute zero is the temperature of the universe. Residency to open in her native Basilicata, Palazzo http://benmchugh.wordpress.com/ Daria Baiocchi studied piano, classical composition elaboration utilizing customized softwares, random processes, microtonalism, Network Theory Jed Speare is a crossover artist who has been Blind man tale#3, 9.37, 2010 But in among the lifeless body of the universe, 9 Rinaldi. http://twitter.com/bmchmusi and electronic music. Her composition had been mastering with surround spatializators. Produced and graphic approaches to composition. His music working with sound and in the sound environment there yet exists spots of activity: radiation which Going through blind man tales. Granules, small www.lacosapreziosa.com played in theatres and concert halls. She has a by: idrioema idrioema a multimedia project by has received several awards: honorable mentions for over thirty years. He is the creator of Cable Car we hear as sound; sound which we conceive melodies, noises, memories... brillant career as pianist with concerts in Berlin, Luigi Scotti & Teresa Águas based in Portugal. It at Jose Pablo Moncayo contest for orchestra Soundscapes on Smithsonian Folkways Records /L. Scott Price of as music; and expression which we cannot Technique, software: Bidule software program + /Rudolf Terland Miami, Milan, Rome, Rotterdam, Bologna. has the objective to explore the sound giving to (1982) and Lan Adomian contest for chamber (1982) and Sound Works 1982-1987, on the Thrymmatízo, 10.05 survive without. This piece lacks one of the most midi keyboard + midi controller buttons signed 19 the sensorial organs not only a passive absorption music (1980), both in Mexico; finalist at New Family Vineyard label, as well as projects such Untitled, 08.52, Live-performance fundamental rudiments of all human-made sound: to vst plugins. Sonar software program used as 14 Thrymmatízo explores the relationship between but a true organic conscience of what the sound Music Today (1988) in Japan; and Kranichsteiner as A Quiet Zone I and II, Peaceful: An Ping, and - Acoustic Guitar, Trombone and Double /Hans Tammen repetition. It is this feature which I have used in an sequencer. timbral and temporal realms. Throughout provokes interacting with themselves. It is the Musikpreis at Darmstadt, Germany in 1992 for Audiograms. Over the years he has been active Bass, 2011 Choking Disklavier #9, 2.36, 2006 attempt to convey a sense of no turning back, of Gintas K (Kraptavicius) is a sound artist born in the work, the brief sounds of glass smashing 24 augmentation of all our senses don’ t perceive; to Trios (y dobles). internationally in sound, video and performance alienation, of pointlessness in attempts to grapple Lithuania. Exploring experimental digital music In the piece we dive into timbral microcosms, and (thrymmatízo translates from Greek as “shatter”) The “Choking Disklavier” is an exploration of create a physical experience of the intellect... work and has performed extensively. He is based with something and invent meaning, of lostness in aesthetics: from overloaded massive structures, explore both our own instruments possibilities coalesce into sustained textures while the the sonic capabilities of the machine itself. The in Boston, Massachusetts (USA) and is the Director /Gerard Gormely a philosophical system whose message is without grained textures to melodic ambiences and field of sound-productions, as well as the timbral elongated sounds of bowed glass fragment into MIDI brain is overloaded with data, but with the /Alan Courtis of Mobius, an artist-run center for experimental Testure, 6.26, Stereo Tape piece, content, meaning or fate. recordings. He has released several albums, possibilities in the combination between them. We brief moments. These timbral differences form lowest possible velocity. In fact, the hammers will 32 work in all media. Amnesia Flood, 6.11 Donal Mac Erlaine is a Dublin based classical contributed to online releases and projects and try to let the sounds that are part of the acoustic a dialogue that creates the work’s main interest seldom strike the strings, and various microphones 28 2011 and conflict. Amnesia Flood is a sound-art piece composed guitarist and composer. He obtained a distinction participated in various international festivals of space we play in take part in our music, and positioned at the keys & mechanics bring out all This piece is built up from sampled recordings L. Scott Price’s work reflects an overall interest in Buenos Aires, Argentina by Alan Courtis, /Daniel Mayer in his master’s degree in UCD, where his studies new media and sound art. Releases on Cronica, maintain an active and accepting relation to them. that low rumble & other noises, that you wouldn’t of violin, soprano sax, snare drum, cymbal, and in the expressive potential of sound, focusing employing analog and digital recordings and crushed letters 1/4 also included composition and piano performance. Zeromoon, Con-v, m/OAR and others record labels. The trio is made up by Inga Margrete Aas on hear otherwise. Once in a while the Disklavier stops kalimba; with the intention of exploring the 2 especially in the areas of acousmatic/fixed media diverse sound processing techniques. The He holds a classical guitar diploma from the Collaborations with @c, Paulo Raposo, Kouhei double bass, Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø on playing, because the MIDI brain has to reorganize micro detail contained within the timbre of each for tape, 1.52, 2011 composition, synthesis, sound processing, main concept behind the composition was to RIAM and is also a published writer on music. Matsunaga, The Beautiful Schizophonic, Richard trombone and Rudolf TerlandBjørnerem on the data brain, and it always stops by hitting some instrument. Using micro and macro content, the In the sequence Lokale Orbits for acoustic spectral composition, just intonation, algorithmic explore (and expand) the sonic possibilities of Recent performances include the premieres of Crow. Artist in residency at festival RadiaLx 2010. acoustic guitar. We met as participants on the random chord, ringing for about 10 seconds (that’s creation of dense textural sections serve to expand instruments and electronics I started from composition, and both human and computer analogue sounds. Through different sound ‘Performance’ for Two Players, and Music for Since 2011 member of Lithuanian Composers ÖNCZekvist project the summer 2010, and since the “choking” part). and contort the source recordings. This piece is an recordings of instrumental sounds and improvisation. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at textures, the composition explores a wide range Quintet by Concorde, both at Dublin’s National Union. then have played together in short, intensive http://tammen.org/the-choking-disklavier/ excerpt of a twenty-minute composition. experiments with granular synthesis. Many of the University of North Texas where he studies with Frequency Topologies creating its own Sound Concert Hall. Donal was awarded Honourable Web: http://gintask.dar.lt periods whenever we’ve had the opportunity. Hans Tammen creates sounds that have been Gerard Gormley is an Electroacoustic Composer the textures generated thereby didn‘t fit in the David Bithell, Joseph Klein, and Jon Christopher Psychogeography. The piece remains unreleased. mention at the International Competition for Email: [email protected] Normally we’re spread out in three different cities, described as an alien world of bizarre textures from Co. Tyrone, N. Ireland. Gerard studied compositions well, but I didn‘t want to throw Nelson. He holds degrees from Bowling Green Alan Courtis was born in 1972 in Argentina. He Excellence in Composition, Thessaloniki, Greece Inga in Oslo, Henrik in Gothenburg and Rudolf and a journey through the land of unending sonic recording/production techniques, composition, away interesting sounds, so I started to collect State University and Illinois Wesleyan University. has more than 200 solo releases and collaborations for his solo cello piece, The Spaces Between in /Graeme Tuslow in Berlin. operations. He produces rapid-fire juxtapositions and sound design for his BSc and MA at Sonic and arrange brief expositions of material as pieces leescottprice.com on worldwide labels, and has toured extensively in 2010. His recently recorded classical guitar album, of radically contrastive and fascinating noises, with Arts Research Centre and is currently studying for tape only. During the cooperation with singer Portals, 7.00, 2006, Stereo (Fixed Japan, Europe, USA, Australia, NZ & Latin America. El Sur is available for free download at 10 micropolyphonic timbres and textures, aggressive for a PhD in Electroacoustic Composition in the and voice artist Claudia Cervenca for Lokale Medium) – 24Bit/ 44.1kHz/ .wav /Mariona Sagarra He has collaborated with musicians like: Pauline www.donalmac.com. /Alex Dowling sonic eruptions, but also quiet pulses and barely same department at Queens University, Belfast. Orbits / Solo 8 we recorded many percussive and Amants (English Translation: Oliveros, Eddie Prevost, Lee Ranaldo, Jim O’Rourke, The material used for creating Portals consisted of 15 audible sounds – through interactive software His research interests are based primarily around rapidly transforming sounds. Granular synthesis Affinity), 3.02, Two voices and effects, 20Fireworks in the hands of little furry Otomo Yoshihide, Mats Gustafsson, Yoshimi, Rick a large collection of sampled impulses, collected programming, by working with the room itself, acousmatic andinstrumental composition and, in emphasized these characteristics and lead to /Donal Scullion creatures, 6.38 Bishop, Toshimaru Nakamura, L.A.F.M.S., Tetuzi from a wide range of sound files. Some of these 2010. and, as a critic observed, with his “…fingers stuck particular, how the exploration of timescale affects textures, rugged and rich in contrast. Gamelan Phase, 2.36, 2011 This is from a field recording that I took at the Akiyama, Rapoon, Uton, C.Spencer Yeh, Okyung 6 impulses were real-world sources – complete Music and voices: Mariona Sagarra in a high voltage outlet”. Signal To Noise called his compositional approach. Daniel Mayer (*1967) studied pure mathematics end of last year. I went out to the woods, set up Lee & Kemialliset Ystavat. His music always has Gamelan Phase was inspired by taking part in a recorded collisions such as strings being struck and Many things are contained in this song: works “…a killer tour de force of post-everything and philosophy at the University of Graz (MSc, the mics, hit record and left it running for the strong experimental sense and usually based Balinese Gamelan ensemble. Ombak is a feature paper being crumpled, whereas other impulses communication, humor, understanding, freedom, guitar damage”, All Music Guide recommended MPhil) and music composition (MA) with rest of the day. It appears a load of small furry on high-skilled techniques of prepared sound, /Daniel Blinkhorn of Gamelan music where paired instruments are were constructed from fragments of longer tenderness, confidence, affinity. Loving for him: “…clearly one of the best experimental Prof. Gerd Kühr at the University of Music creatures were around the same area and they tape manipulations, field recordings, electronics, hermetica terra subfonica, 3.36 tuned slightly “off” with one another so that samples, which were cut and spliced to form pleasure, not out of need. The voice, the piano guitarists to come forward during the 1990s.” 33 and Performing Arts Graz, Austria. 2001 / had somehow found a box of fireworks and objects, computer tools, playing traditional and when the same note is played simultaneously synthetic ‘impossible’ impacts. Portals is structured and the poetry are the base of her work. Her solid http://tammen.org/ Hermetica attempts to capture the sonic vitality 02 postgradual study at the electronic studio presumably a pack of matches. Everything you unusual instruments (eg. unstringed guitar). on both instruments it creates an “acoustical as a series of short, sharply-defined movements. musical career has allowed her the investigation of accompanying the life of a colony of hermit crabs. of the Music Academy of Basel, Switzerland, hear comes from what those little mad animals beating”1 ( a shimmering effect or a natural Each of these was created from its own unique expressive new opportunities of the voice whether /Bennie Reilly After encountering a surreptitious colony of hermit with Hanspeter Kyburz. Guest composer at got up to. I make music for real and imaginary frequency phase). When translated literally it subset of the ‘global’ collection of impulses, which it is with electroacoustic elements, multieffects or /Guillaume Côté crabs on an island off the coast of Venezuela, I the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (2003 instruments. I’ve had music performed at various All we hear is more than words, means “waves”2 and it is this characteristic which functioned as a kind of sonic ‘DNA’, forming a simply polyphonies vowels. Starting from its singer 25 Broken Instruments, 4.36 was astounded to discover the wonderful world / 04) and at IEM Graz (2005). Working with gives the Gamelan it’s distinctive sound. I found distinct musical identity. Certain impulses were places around Ireland including the National 6.00, 2011 29 function, is related with other artistic experiences Étude pour instruments brisés et objets of sound contained within. As I stood and looked generative computer algorithms in electronic and this a very interesting characteristic as it challenges shared across several subsets, integrating them Concert Hall, Beckett Theatre, and the Project Arts Bennie Reilly’s audio pieces reconstruct elements that take her to act as performer. stochastiques / 4:35 / 2009 at the colony, I wondered what the small crabs instrumental music. the Western perception of being “in tune.” Using within the fabrics of numerous movements, acting Centre (Sensorium festival). At the start of 2011 of pop music lying dormant in her, and quite As singer soloist, has published three records: Frec This piece adopts a post-Cagean aesthetic that sounded like. I was barely 5 feet away, yet could www.daniel-mayer.at the instruments from the Balinese Gamelan I as a means of creating coherence across the work I co-founded the ‘Dublin Laptop Orchestra’ with possibly, our memory. In All we hear is more than a frec (2000), of Catalan contemporary musical suggest an emancipation of noises as they are. hear nothing of the activity within the colony. recorded a lot of these sounds and using software as a whole. Dan Trueman thanks to funding from the Arts words, she culls individual lines from a myriad poetry in kay of jazz and Mediterranean music, Study for broken instruments and stochastic Fascinated by the idea of the arcane and hermetic like Csound and Spear I have tried to highlight Graeme Truslove (PhD) is a composer and Council and Trinity Provost’s Fund. I also co-created of tantalisingly familiar 80s & 90s pop hits. /David Bickley Dies diferents (2003), a musical route of places objects is an homage to imperfections, a textures they might create as they jostled and this effect. This piece is a combination or the performer based in Glasgow, Scotland. His the audio-visual installation ‘Bodysnatcher’ for the Singing these in sequence and retaining their 3Rust, 7.00, 2009 and people, popular and topics songs vowels, doppelgänger of the search for the purity or wrestled over one another in a somewhat confined raw, natural sounds of the Gamelan and their output includes: electroacoustic and instrumental Biorhythm exhibition at the Science Gallery, Dublin original melody, she constructs new narratives space, I lowered a microphone into the colony in The track, Rust, is an audio description of the own improvisation and compositions, poetry and perfection in music: the unwanted materials finally electronically manipulated counterparts. compositions, film and theatre sound design, that subsequently featured at Oxegen and Electric into a frankenstein-like song. In this piece, Reilly an attempt to eavesdrop, hoping to capture some colours that can sometimes appear in clouds songs of other places and countries, and Lent, define the form of music. - Ils ne veulent pas voir Donal Scullion, a recent graduate from Queen’s audiovisual art installations and improvisation Picnic music festivals. This installation was exhibited addresses modern cultural memory, which forms a semblance of their activities. around the moon on stormy nights. It was lent... Corrent!... Els temperaments de la veu que l’univers n’est rien d’autre qu’un chaos auquel University Belfast with a degree mainly focussed (performing on guitar and/or laptop). His work at the Eyebeam Gallery in New York during the rapport with (as well as an affinity in) its audience Daniel is an Australian composer and digital media constructed using an Cornish Analogue Systems (2010), in which the voice is at the service of some les Hommes opposent du verbe et des formes. Ils on composition, both contemporary and is largely concerned with conflicts between World Science Festival 2011. by mediating through shared reminiscences. All we artist currently residing in Sydney. His music and hand built modular synthesiser. The textures have temperaments and vital situations. voudraient du sens tout fait, une origine qui se electroacoustic. Currently working on a large intuitive performance and the fixed-medium, hear is more than words is sung by the artist and audiovisual works have been performed and cited also been heavily processed using various digital email: [email protected] porterait garante de ce sens et des règles codifiées. scale work for 12-piece ensemble, 12-piece choir often exploring how fixed-medium expressive was recorded in one take. at numerous international festivals, events and loci. and analogue effects pedals and ancient ring www.marionasagarra.com /Andrew Babcock Nicolas Bourriaud – Esthétique relationnelle and 12-piece percussion group to accompany and structural possibilities can be integrated into Bennie Reilly’s practise includes painting, drawing For more information please visit his website at: modulators before being transferred to a 24 track www.myspace.com/marionasagarra Imbroglio, stereo electroacoustic Guillaume Côté is a young sound artist with a a theatrical aerial performance to take place in improvised performance and vice versa. Truslove’s 21 and music. Born in Dublin 1982 Reilly graduated www.bookofsand.com.au hard disk machine for mixing and mastering. David marked preference for a musical discourse based Belfast’s Botanic Gardens in July. Donal also works work is regularly performed at international centres music, 24bit/44.1kHz, 7.00, 2010 from Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art & Design in Bickley has been experimenting with music and on contrasts, leaving full liberty to noisy sounds as a performer and arranger in more popular and festivals for contemporary music, and has /Kala Pierson Imbroglio, from the Italian imbrogliare, meaning 2004 and received an MA in illustration from film since the age of 14. At 16 he directed a short and acoustic instruments. His artistic process /J. Eoin idioms working with diverse acts- from hip-hop to attracted various awards, most recently 1st prize Radiation Layers, 3.00 ‘a confused mass’ or ‘a misunderstanding of a Kingston University London in 2008. Reilly has film for the BBC and a few years later his Degree 16 essentially rests in the search for beauty in things’ Animation for One Guitar, 5.30 folk to soul to rock and roll. Donal is also a highly in Métamorphoses 2010 composition competition, Radiation Layers is 3 minutes of audio made from complicated or bitter nature’, was created using exhibited widely, including group exhibitions in 34 film, The Rite of Rain, for which he also scored imperfections. He is presently a student of regarded songwriter on the Belfast scene. Belgium. a few sounds sampled from a pocket AM radio. Mother’s Tank Station, Kevin Kavanagh, Temple Bar This piece of music is titled ‘Animation for One the soundtrack, won 1st prize at the Sony Video one 3-second sample of a voice saying “Shh.” electroacoustic composition and teacher assistant www.graemetruslove.org.uk The sounds were transformed using a variety of Gallery and the Royal Hibernian Academy. Recent Guitar’. It is a solo composition for steel strung Festival at the National Film Theatre in London. His The layers weave among one another, constantly at Université de Montréal. His works have been signal processing techniques, such as waveshaping, solo shows include Forest Bathing, Roscommon acoustic guitar in Dm and uses an alternative work has always embodied powerful atmospherics /Mateusz Wysocki changing, in a rich song. In an abstract sense, played around the world, including Musiva Viva pitchshifting, delay, filtering, and reverberation, Arts Centre, 2011 and Paradasaeidae, Monster tuning with capo. Written in January 2009 while and these were put to fine use when he co- on a flying carpet (blip song), 6.51, /Jon Aveyard these layers can be heard as representing the Festival (Portugal, 2010), Electronic Music Midwest 7 and combined so that the stereo field exhibits an Truck, Dublin, 2009. Reilly is the lead singer, recovering from an operation on my vocal cords, it ran Synchroma, a soundtrack company based CD Escapee, 4.02 complex, ever-shifting layers of radiation present in Festival (USA, 2010), Longueur d’ondes (France, February 2010 11 obscurity between foreground and background songwriter and guitarist with band little xs for eyes was originally titled ‘Lament for a Lost Voice’. in London and producing scores for the series every environment on earth. 2010), NoiseFloor Festival (UK, 2011) and SEAMUS information at various times throughout the piece. who are currently recording their first album for J. Eoin is a singer/guitarist and contemporary Kala Pierson is a U.S.-born, primarily New York- national conference (USA, 2011). /Kacper Ziemianin, Peter based composer. Her long-term projects include Born in Buffalo, NY, Andrew Babcock has been release later this year. benniereilly.com songwriter living in London. Originally from Please note that we have endeavoured to be as accurate as possible with regard to track and Axis of Beauty (setting texts by living Middle working in a variety of contexts with music and Limerick City, he moved to London in the mid 12Smith and James Stephen Finn multimedia for over 10 years. After studying 1980’s to pursue a career as a traditional Irish biographical information. However, in some situations we did not have all the information to hand at Tiger Walking Downhill, 4.48, 2011 Eastern writers, in an ongoing answer to her the time of going to print and we apologise for any omissions. composition with Samuel Pellman at Hamilton Folk singer. He has toured extensively and worked