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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.