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  • Registered Users Posts: 47 choral


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    Some of the most striking voices in today’s classical composition are not coming out of the West but from far-flung outposts on the other side of the world. Such a voice is that of Dmitri Yanov Yanovsky. Chicago Tribune 2010

    A new series of contemporary music and arts events, ‘Sounds of the Silk Road organised by the Louth Contemporary Music Society (LCMS), will be launched this April as part of the Drogheda Arts Festival.

    The first performance of the series will feature work specially commissioned by the LCMS by Dmitri Yanov Yanovsky a composer from Uzbekistan a country at the cross-roads of the rich oriental and Islamic traditions of Central Asia. The work has been has written for world renowned Hilliard ensemble, Ivan Monighetti one of the world’s most accomplished cellists who stunned audiences with his performance at the Drogheda Arts Festival 2010 and of the foremost Irish musicians in the newly formed EQ Ensemble which includes Cliona Doris,harp, Malachy Robinson,bass, Elizabeth Cooney,violin, Cian O'Duill,viola, Maria McGarry,piano, Deirdre O'Leary, clarinet, Susan Doyle, flute, Chris Stynes and Maeve O'Hara, percussion.

    The concert will take place in St Peter’s Church of Ireland Drogheda on the 29 April 2011 at 8pm.

    This is the first time the Hilliard ensemble, have been involved with an Irish based commission and it is also Dmitri's first Irish commission. Dimitri Yanov-Yanovsky was born in 1963 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. As the musicologist Gerard McBurney says “His remarkable surroundings are vividly reflected in his music. What is most impressive is the skill with which he weaves the colourful threads of contradictory influences into a musical fabric always refined, beautifully patterned and absolutely personal”

    The piece ‘Morning’ based on text from Robert Lax's poem ‘Morning’, from his book called Circus of the Sun described by the New York Times as one of the masterpieces of the 20th century. Lax was also a friend of the writer, monk and mystic Thomas Merton.
    The performance will also include another of Dmitri's works called Nightmusic - Voices in the Leaves which was written for Yo Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble.

    World renowned Lydia Kavina will open the concert with a contemporary piece called Kitezh 19. Lydia plays music on a theremin, an electronic instrument which makes music without touching. Lydia has become an icon for performances with the Theramin and will be giving a workshop on the instrument for both beginners and advanced players whilst she is in Ireland.

    The concert and events are the latest of several high profile art music events organised by the Louth Contemporary Music Society which have brought world renowned composers to Ireland, previously having successfully featured, Arvo Pärt, Philip Glass, Terry Riley, Valentyn Silvestov and to the 2010 Drogheda Arts Festival, the Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina.

    Sounds of the Silk Road is presented by Louth Contemporary Music Society (LCMS) in association with Create Louth. The event is funded by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and financially supported by Create Louth.

    Tickets for the performance priced €15 are available from www.centralticketbureau.com and Droichead Online Booking Service http://www.droicheadartscentre.com/booking.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16 ddmurph


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    Daniel A.I.U Higgs, Interdimensional Song-Seamstress and Corpse-Dancer of the Mystic Crags was born in the Harbor City of Baltimore, USA in the early-mid sixties of the previous millenium. Having begun singing 25 years ago, he is perhaps best known as the singer and lyricist of the band Lungfish, which is now, as it often has been, quasi if not entirely defunct. Presently, the music Daniel manifests proceeds without the blessing/curse and help/hinderance of collaborative influence.

    http://www.higgsgallery.com/Higgs_Gallery/portal.html


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amyz8rjLSg8
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ScXpDq6V8U
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixvygh0BCOg

    Facebook event page


    + More acts, plus venue, to be announced in next few days +



    ... thread over in gigs forum here


    + Film programme curated by Maximilian Le Cain:

    This April’s Black Sun film screening is devoted to two hypnotic films by American artist Peter Rose. Active in film, video, installation and performance since 1968, Rose’s work interrogates the nature of time, space, light and perception, often drawing influence from his background in mathematics. Although subsequently known for his work involving language used as written text on screen, the two early works in this programme are both strikingly hallucinatory explorations of space.



    Analogies: studies in the movement of time (14 mins, 1977) has been described by Rose as ‘an intriguing series of visual riddles’. Simple camera movements taking place around a plain, institutional looking building are rearranged as multiple screens according to structuralist principles, allowing several perspectives on the same action, often with slight time delays between them. This opens space, movement and gesture to dizzying new permutations. For example, in the words of Noel Carroll, "when Rose fills the screen with twenty-five images, the experience is akin to music. An image ripples across the screen as a theme echoes across the instruments of an orchestra, giving way to complicated designs, each image an arabesque in a Persian rug."



    Incantation (13 mins, 1970) is an ecstatic montage of images of nature- trees, plants, the sun, the moon, water- rapidly layered and intercut in a way that suggests a powerful dynamic force behind natural rhythms. Its irresistible energy is enhanced by the use of a compelling, breath-based Islamic chant on the soundtrack, which brings a prayer-like energy to the film. Astoundingly, this exceptionally visually dense, yet precise, work was created entirely in camera on Super-8 film, with no post-production work performed on the image at all. In our day of instantly accessible digital manipulation, such a technical feat appears all the more marvelous- and its results all the more gorgeous.



    Special thanks to Pip Chodorov, without whose help this screening would not be possible.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 193 ✭✭rahmalec


    Cork New Music Ensemble

    Saturday, 21st of May
    8:00 p.m.
    Curtis Auditoriom
    Cork School of Music.

    Admissiom: 5 euro

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    The Cork New Music Ensemble is a recently formed group dedicated to performing newly composed works and other contemporary music.

    For its debut performance the ensemble will perform nine new works by Irish composers.


    Pieces to be performed (not necessarily in order of performance)

    Sam Barker - Two Sonnets for Violin, Vibraphone and Double Bass
    Sam Perkin - Prelude and Fugue For Marimba and Violin
    Brendan O'Connor - Droplets on Staves for Chamber Ensemble
    Siona Mahon - As the Leaf Withers for Chamber Ensemble
    Patrick O'Connor - Evocation and King's Seranade for Soprano and Ensemble
    Stephen Lane - Making Time for Piano and Vibraphone
    Stephen Parker - Lullabies for an Estuary of Sculptures: Phillip Jackson, for Soprano and Ensemble
    Pierre O'Reilly - Yello for two Pianos
    David O'Regan - Sleepwalk for Flute and Vibraphone


    The list of performers includes Aoife O'Donnovan (flute), Eoin Ducrot (violin), Alex Petcu (percussion), Shane Ladden (piano), Aoife Sadlier (cello), Kelley Lonergan (soprano), Conor Palliser (conducting some pieces) and many more.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,572 ✭✭✭DominoDub


    https://www.nch.ie/online/default.asp?doWork::WScontent::loadArticle=Load&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::article_id=9C60D620-4CFC-444A-A379-247217A10F79
    Sunday 5th June 2011 7pm

    Prices: €25, €20

    (Friends and Groups €18)



    Room: Main Auditorium

    The National Concert Hall and Improvised Music Company brings the world’s finest jazz and world music performers to The Main Auditorium throughout 2011.

    7pm: Trygve Seim’s The Source- Trygve Seim, sax; Øyvind Brække, trombone; Mats Eilertsen, doublebass; Per Oddvar Johansen, drums

    8.15pm: Stefano Bollani solo piano

    9.30pm: Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin-Nik Bärtsch, piano, fender rhodes; Kaspar Rast, drums; Björn meyer, Bass; Andi Pupato, percussion; Sha, contrabass clarinet


    A banquet to appreciate at your leisure for the bank holiday as we celebrate the renowned ECM label, a watchword in excellence in jazz and contemporary music. Three perspectives on today’s generation of ECM artists are offered here, all different yet each in their way imbued with the characteristic lyricism that defines ECM. Tenor saxophonist Trygve Seim soars as naturally as Garbarek, and is heard here in similarly uninhibited Norwegian company with The Source. The freewheeling Stefano Bollani follows, a witty and exuberant pianist blessed with amazing rhythmic resources. To close, the zen- like funk of Switzerland’s Nik Bartsch as he takes us through the gears with Ronin, a brilliantly hypnotic band that builds from the scantest motifs and tautest dynamics to unveil gorgeous rhythmic facades.

    Pre-Concert Talk: 6pm


  • Registered Users Posts: 47 choral


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    The 8 Cellos of Celli Monighetti with special guest Franghiz Ali Zadeh.

    The second concert in Louth Contemporary Music Society’s ‘Sounds of the Silk Road” series will take place on 22 October 2011 in St.Peter’s Church of Ireland Drogheda. The concert entitled Metamorphoses features the amazing Russian cellist Ivan Monighetti’s 8 cello ensemble Celli Monighetti with special guest Azerbaijani composer and pianist Franghiz Ali-Zadeh.

    Metamorphoses also features the first poster design by Reza Abedini, a world renowned Iranian designer and a professor of graphic design and visual culture at Tehran University. www.rezaabedini.com

    Metamorphoses is presented by Louth Contemporary Music Society (LCMS). Metamorphoses is funded by a private Swiss foundation, and financially supported by the Arts Council and Create Louth. The concert is dedicated to Sofia Gubaidulina who celebrates her 80th birthday on 24 October 2011.

    Tickets for the performance priced €15 are available from www.centralticketbureau.com (0818 205 205 ) or at the door.

    Youtube Videos
    Kian Soltani performing Franghiz Ali-Zade’s Habil sajaji ( Habil Style)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPJO6ce7o4I&feature=related

    The Music of Dmitri Yanov Yanovsky
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgmBzxDT4GU&feature=related

    Ivan Monighetti performing Sofia Gubaidulina’s Canticle of the Sun
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1ut6OyRWq4


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16 ddmurph


    Black Sun presents: Crank Sturgeon + ID M Theft Able

    Sunday November 20th

    Venue: Plugd Records, Cork

    Suggested donation: €7

    ... Full line-up to follow ...


    Crank Sturgeon:

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    Ordained minister and usurper of plateau monoculture, Sturgeon has been active in the wandering peripheries of noise and performance art since 1992. Combining the foundations set forth by the Dadaists, Joseph Beuys, and Allan Kaprow, Crank’s simultaneously caustic and celebratory performances trample the lines of quasi-art presentation - whether with just solo voice and spontaneous poetry or armed with an array of busted guitars, contact microphones and the essential scrappy costume in tow.

    http://www.cranksturgeon.com/




    ID M Theft Able:

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    The current alias of Skot Spear, id m theft able, is an improvising sound artist from Portland, Maine, who primarily uses vocals combined with sounds culled from amplified/unamplified found objects, circuit bent instruments, homebuilt keyboards and modified tape machines. Theftable has an available-ist approach to audio and its creation – making intuitive use of all sound thefts - from media reappropriation, to the rhythms of passing cars, water, or 2009's obsessive reworking of Theatre Organ tracks. Theftable has been mooted as the "Best noise (??) comedy act ever!" -- Guy Montag

    http://www.kraag.org/id/

    http://vimeo.com/17004465



    Thread over in gigs forum here

    There's also a Dublin show in the Joinery on Saturday November 19th. 8pm, €8 admission. Gen 26 + David Lacey & Paul Vogel are also playing the Dublin show


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16 ddmurph


    couldn't edit previous post so here's the poster with full details ...

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    tomorrow night, 8pm, plugd records. suggested donation €7

    full line-up:

    crank sturgeon
    i'd m theftable
    wölflinge & first blood part II


    dublin show is tonight in the joinery


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1 johncage


    John Cage Year Lublin 2012

    Lublin, Poland

    01.01.2012 - 31.12.2012



    John Cage Year Lublin 2012

    !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


  • Registered Users Posts: 269 ✭✭whelanslive


    Whelanslive.com present the live Irish debut of the enigmatic & completely wonderful

    Natural Snow Buildings (France)
    with support from
    Be Honest (Ian Maleney – Ginola/Quarter Inch Collective)
    Sunday 11th March
    Upstairs At Whelan’s
    Tickets €12

    Live appearances by Natural Snow Buildings are an even more rare jewel than their records, which seem to briefly appear in limited numbers and instantly be devoured. The Vitré-based duo of Mehdi Ameziane and Solange Gularte began creating music together after meeting at university in the late 90s, armed with little more than cello, guitar and voice. They began issuing tapes and CDRs in miniscule quantities, word slowly spreading through the exclamations of such devoted advocates as Digitalis and Time Lag.

    Despite their minimal means, Natural Snow Buildings music is never less than all-consuming, be it in their ethereal and windswept epics or their moments of close-mic'd vocal-and-guitar tenderness. Their releases always materialize on a grand scale, usually of two discs or more, always adorned by Mehdi and Solange's quasi-mystical artwork – like the tracks inside, each one seems like a fully realized dream.

    2006's The Dance Of The Moon And The Sun was perhaps a watershed, the duo finding their work hyperbolised online as a "monumental masterpiece", "the history of all things" and "perfection defined". Popol Vuh, Flying Saucer Attack, Vashti Bunyan – comparisons abound and uniformly fail to do them justice. Soon began their relationship with Sheffield's Blackest Rainbow label and a series of releases that continue to sell out almost before the label takes delivery.

    This is the first proper tour by Natural Snow Buildings and this truly is not to be missed.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUm3LpLAMiY

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELILsuB4LvU

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faEsz0XLMbQ

    Support on the night comes from Be Honest, the new experimental guitar project from Quarter Inch Collective’s Ian Maleney. You can check out a live set from Be Honest here -- http://soundcloud.com/behonest/be-ho...-joinery-25-11


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14 RELLIK NISSASSA


    2nd annual "EXPERIMENTAL" This years' showcase titled, "ABSTRACT COMMUNICATIONS"
    Saturday May 5th
    7pm-11pm
    Frostburg Palace Theater in Frostburg, MD (US)
    FREE to the public!
    Check out footage from last year's RNL performance :)

    RELLIK NISSASSA Vs. Lampeo at: Experimental-Understanding Synthetic Sound (RNL) - YouTube

    Behind the scenes project HERE!
    EXPERIMENTAL: Growing Electronic ... by RELLIK NISSASSA — Kickstarter


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  • Registered Users Posts: 269 ✭✭whelanslive


    Whelanslive.com presents

    Talibam! & Sam Kulik
    (US)
    + No Spill Blood (Irl) (members of Adebisi Shank/Elk/Magic Pockets/Hands Up Who Wants To Die)
    Upstairs At Whelan’s
    Friday 23rd March

    Doors 8pm
    Tickets €11 including booking fee available to buy online now from WAV Tickets or call the Box Office [1890 200 078]

    TALIBAM! and SAM KULIK DISCOVER ATLANTIS
    Talibam! Goes To Bed with Sam Kulik and Discovers Atlantis is a hyper-reflective and humorous take on current events, ecological disaster, pubescent sexual experience, and corporate/political domination. It’s an avant-garde buddy movie for the ears: a 21st Century Weimar cabaret of reggae/disco/freejazz/avant-rock/poetry with impassioned soliloquies often transforming into deadpan self-reflective humor.
    A 13 year old boy named Franklin is brought to the bottom of the ocean to ‘Atlantis’ by a bohemian ‘jazz fish’ named Stinge. Atlantis is flooded with a toxic oil spill that is leaking beyond control, killing all of the free minded fish of Atlantis. Meanwhile, the politicians of Atlantis use the oil for their own sexual self gratification and show little concern that Atlantis is turning into an ecological disaster of epic proportion. Stinge brings Franklin to Atlantis because Franklin has in his possession a ‘magic pillow’, built by his father and Stinge hopes that Franklin can ‘stuff the hole’ with his pillow and save Atlantis for good. In order for Franklin to comprehend this scenario, Stinge leads Franklin on a tour of Atlantis cultural hotspots; jazz spots, poetry slams and art centers in order for him to see the scope of devastation that the oil leak is causing Atlantis. Franklin feels compelled to help Stinge and the bohemain fish of Atlantis, and with some other key characters they meet along the way, make a valiant attempt to save Atlantis for good!

    TALIBAM! ENTERTAINS
    Hailing from New York, Talibam! Is one of the most potent and fascinating bands in contemporary music. With 17 European tours since ’06, and 20 album releases since ’05, the eight + years of interplay between Matt Mottel and Kevin Shea has created one of the most unique and exciting live shows and some of the most powerfully recorded documents of any era.


    Talibam! founded in 2003 by Kevin Shea and Matt Mottel have been consistently lauded for their creative output in features from Vice Magazine, The Wire, Pitchfork, The Village Voice, Blow Up, Drowned in Sound,Tinymixtapes and many more.
    They have twenty records on a variety of internationally respected vanguard labels; ESP DISK, Bo Weavil, Azul Discografica, Blackest Rainbow, Pendu, Gaffer, Holidays, Wallace and more.
    Since 2006, Talibam! have been one of the most active underground American bands on the European scene, completing 17 tours since 2006, playing at the Wire Festival (2007) Dot to Dot (2007),Kraak Festival (2008),ZXZW (2008), Night of the Unexpected (2009), Ultra Hang (2010), Dis-Patch (2010).
    They have collaborated across genre, and medium performing for artist Peter Coffin, at Deitch Projects in 2008, and in 2009 started an ongoing collaboration with acclaimed choreographer Karole Armitage, performing with her at the Kitchen in 2009, Torino Italy, 2009, and Abrons Arts Center in 2010 and at Milano Dance Festival in Milan and at Dance Umbrella Festival at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London in 2011.
    In 2011, they spent the greater half of the year in residency at LMCC Swing Space, where they have developed many projects for presentation, including this one.


    Sam Kulik
    Sam Kulik (b. 1982) grew up in Massachusetts and moved to New York in 2004 after studying trombone with Robin Eubanks at the Oberlin Conservatory. He is known as much in the world of improvised music as he is in the world of indie rock and he has worked extensively with dance and theater companies that lie somewhere in between. He has toured to over a dozen countries with Nervous Cabaret, Talibam!, Starring, Skeletons, Amanda Palmer, Gloria Deluxe, Capillary Action, and the Mettawee River Theater Company, and has performed locally with Buckwheat Zydeco, John Zorn, Peter Evans, Walter Thompson, Ibrahim Maalouf, and a crazy old guy he met in Hoboken once. In the past year he has performed at Roulette, The Music Hall of Williamsburg, The Stone, The Kitchen, The Whitney Museum, Death By Audio, and Issue Project Room in New York City.

    No Spill Blood are a fun new musical combination featuring members of Adebisi Shank, Elk & Magic Pockets. Expect a super entertainment music wish-party via the medium of raging vocals, scorching synths and pulverizing kraut rhythms from one of the most brilliantly exciting new bands in Dublin.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14 RELLIK NISSASSA


    The All Good Music Festival is coming up this summer! My absolute favorite show to go to here in the states.
    http://www.allgoodfestival.com/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 237 ✭✭Buddhapadge


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    KENNETH DAHL KNUDSEN
    SHANE LATIMER
    DENNIS CASSIDY
    PATRICK KIERNAN
    SHANE HOLLY


    Block T 1-6 Haymarket, Smithfield Sq., Dublin 7
    THU 15 MAR 8:00pm €5/7 BYOB

    Knudsen/Latimer Quartet
    Kenneth Dahl Knudsen
    is double bass player based in Aalborg, Denmark. He performs with his own international band ‘Kenneth Dahl Knudsen Group feat. Gilad Hekselman’ and the Aalborg based group ‘Crash ‘n’ Burn’. Shane Latimer is a guitarist based in Dublin. He performs with funk scientists ‘OKO’ and co-curates the annual Bottlenote festival, an annual festival of improvised music in Dublin, Ireland. The pair met when performing at Den Blaa Festival 2011. After performing an off-the-cuff concert at the festival they organised a tour of Ireland and Denmark for March 2012. For this collaboration they will be joined by Galway-based Matthew Berrill on sax and Oslo-based Kristian Thor Helboe on drums. This tour was made possible with the generous support of Culture Ireland and Improvised Music Company.

    http://kennethdahlknudsen.com/
    http://soundcloud.com/shanelatimer

    Dennis Cassidy is a graduate of the Newpark Music Center in Dublin, where he studied jazz performance under Conor Guilfoyle. He is a much sought after performer both live and in studio and has played extensively throughout Ireland, Europe and the US. He is also a highly regarded educator and composer, and has written for both ensemble and film. Current projects include Mixtapes From The Underground, Tryst, The Holy Roman Army and solo pieces for turntables, cassette tape and electronics.

    http://soundcloud.com/dencassidy

    Patrick Kiernan is a musician and composer from Dublin. For the past year, he has been experimenting with solo electric bass performance, using electronics and preparations to create improvised spontaneous compositions.

    http://soundcloud.com/patrickkiernan

    Shane Holly is a guitarist/drummer/composer residing in Dublin City. For the past number of years he has been exploring large-scale composition more akin to abstract song. The music draws influence from a variety of genres to create rhythmically and harmonically dense, but accessible soundscapes laden with hooks and shifts in meter and dynamics. The music is instrumental in approach featuring densely layered solo guitar by Shane accompanied by the sympathetic drumming of Brian Walsh.

    http://soundcloud.com/shaneholly


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14 RELLIK NISSASSA




  • Registered Users Posts: 269 ✭✭whelanslive


    Tomorrow night! It's gonna be epic
    Whelanslive.com presents

    Talibam! & Sam Kulik
    (US)
    + No Spill Blood (Irl) (members of Adebisi Shank/Elk/Magic Pockets/Hands Up Who Wants To Die)
    Upstairs At Whelan’s
    Friday 23rd March

    Doors 8pm
    Tickets €11 including booking fee available to buy online now from WAV Tickets or call the Box Office [1890 200 078]

    TALIBAM! and SAM KULIK DISCOVER ATLANTIS
    Talibam! Goes To Bed with Sam Kulik and Discovers Atlantis is a hyper-reflective and humorous take on current events, ecological disaster, pubescent sexual experience, and corporate/political domination. It’s an avant-garde buddy movie for the ears: a 21st Century Weimar cabaret of reggae/disco/freejazz/avant-rock/poetry with impassioned soliloquies often transforming into deadpan self-reflective humor.
    A 13 year old boy named Franklin is brought to the bottom of the ocean to ‘Atlantis’ by a bohemian ‘jazz fish’ named Stinge. Atlantis is flooded with a toxic oil spill that is leaking beyond control, killing all of the free minded fish of Atlantis. Meanwhile, the politicians of Atlantis use the oil for their own sexual self gratification and show little concern that Atlantis is turning into an ecological disaster of epic proportion. Stinge brings Franklin to Atlantis because Franklin has in his possession a ‘magic pillow’, built by his father and Stinge hopes that Franklin can ‘stuff the hole’ with his pillow and save Atlantis for good. In order for Franklin to comprehend this scenario, Stinge leads Franklin on a tour of Atlantis cultural hotspots; jazz spots, poetry slams and art centers in order for him to see the scope of devastation that the oil leak is causing Atlantis. Franklin feels compelled to help Stinge and the bohemain fish of Atlantis, and with some other key characters they meet along the way, make a valiant attempt to save Atlantis for good!

    TALIBAM! ENTERTAINS
    Hailing from New York, Talibam! Is one of the most potent and fascinating bands in contemporary music. With 17 European tours since ’06, and 20 album releases since ’05, the eight + years of interplay between Matt Mottel and Kevin Shea has created one of the most unique and exciting live shows and some of the most powerfully recorded documents of any era.


    Talibam! founded in 2003 by Kevin Shea and Matt Mottel have been consistently lauded for their creative output in features from Vice Magazine, The Wire, Pitchfork, The Village Voice, Blow Up, Drowned in Sound,Tinymixtapes and many more.
    They have twenty records on a variety of internationally respected vanguard labels; ESP DISK, Bo Weavil, Azul Discografica, Blackest Rainbow, Pendu, Gaffer, Holidays, Wallace and more.
    Since 2006, Talibam! have been one of the most active underground American bands on the European scene, completing 17 tours since 2006, playing at the Wire Festival (2007) Dot to Dot (2007),Kraak Festival (2008),ZXZW (2008), Night of the Unexpected (2009), Ultra Hang (2010), Dis-Patch (2010).
    They have collaborated across genre, and medium performing for artist Peter Coffin, at Deitch Projects in 2008, and in 2009 started an ongoing collaboration with acclaimed choreographer Karole Armitage, performing with her at the Kitchen in 2009, Torino Italy, 2009, and Abrons Arts Center in 2010 and at Milano Dance Festival in Milan and at Dance Umbrella Festival at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London in 2011.
    In 2011, they spent the greater half of the year in residency at LMCC Swing Space, where they have developed many projects for presentation, including this one.


    Sam Kulik
    Sam Kulik (b. 1982) grew up in Massachusetts and moved to New York in 2004 after studying trombone with Robin Eubanks at the Oberlin Conservatory. He is known as much in the world of improvised music as he is in the world of indie rock and he has worked extensively with dance and theater companies that lie somewhere in between. He has toured to over a dozen countries with Nervous Cabaret, Talibam!, Starring, Skeletons, Amanda Palmer, Gloria Deluxe, Capillary Action, and the Mettawee River Theater Company, and has performed locally with Buckwheat Zydeco, John Zorn, Peter Evans, Walter Thompson, Ibrahim Maalouf, and a crazy old guy he met in Hoboken once. In the past year he has performed at Roulette, The Music Hall of Williamsburg, The Stone, The Kitchen, The Whitney Museum, Death By Audio, and Issue Project Room in New York City.

    No Spill Blood are a fun new musical combination featuring members of Adebisi Shank, Elk & Magic Pockets. Expect a super entertainment music wish-party via the medium of raging vocals, scorching synths and pulverizing kraut rhythms from one of the most brilliantly exciting new bands in Dublin.


  • Registered Users Posts: 76 ✭✭Wolflinge


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    For more info, see http://blacksuncork.tumblr.com


  • Registered Users Posts: 269 ✭✭whelanslive


    Whelanslive & Quarter Inch Collective present

    TIM HECKER
    +Guests
    The Unitarian Church, Stephen’s Green
    Friday 18th May
    Tickets €16.50 (including booking fee) available to buy online from www.wavtickets.ie or call the WAV Box Office [Lo-call 1890 200 078]. Tickets also available from www.tickets.ie

    For fans of Fennesz, Ben Frost, Stars Of The Lid, My Bloody Valentine, Henryk Górecki, Phillip Glass




    "So whatever grand plan Hecker may or may not have had in mind here, letʼs just say that much of Ravedeath, 1972 will put you in the position of a slack-jawed medieval peasant, floored by hearing the power and beauty of that organ for the first time.” - Drowned in Sound

    "We can't think of another producer in the field who's had such an unstoppable winning streak over the past ten years." - Altered Zones

    "As the world spirals into hell these are the lullabies to dull the pain." - Fact Magazine

    Sometimes a show comes along that you already know will quickly fall into the realm of legendary status in the Dublin cultural canon and the extraordinary Tim Hecker playing the Unitarian Church is one such show. Hecker is a Canadian-based and ultra-prolific producer & composer who has been pushing the margins of electro-acoustic composition since 2001 on legendary labels such as Kranky, Fat Cat, Alien8 & Mille Plateaux. His work has variously described as "structured ambient", "tectonic color plates" and "cathedral electronic music" but what we can confidently assert is that they are some of the most powerful recordings of the 21st century, equal parts beautiful and terrifying and there could be no more appropriate a setting in Dublin to witness Hecker’s reverberant masterpieces than the Unitarian Church on Stephen’s Green.

    Ravedeath 1972, Hecker’s 2011 opus which was engineered by Ben Frost featured at the business end of many 2011 end-of-year polls and won the the Polaris Prize for best Canadian electronic album.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,858 ✭✭✭Undergod


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    Presenting Kirkos, Dublin’s newest contemporary-music ensemble:

    Kirkos Ensemble is a dynamic new contemporary-music ensemble founded by students of the Royal Irish Academy of Music. Kirkos is generously supported by the RIAM, but is run entirely (both artistically and administratively) by students, making it the RIAM’s only student-run ensemble.

    Dublin is lucky enough to possess a new-music scene which punches well above its weight internationally, but what is missing here is the opportunity for young people to be involved in the music of today. Kirkos Ensemble has a mission to promote the performance of contemporary music by the country’s best young performers, and to provide a platform for young composers to have their works performed well. What makes Kirkos unique is our access to the RIAM’s pool of Ireland’s top emerging performers.

    Kirkos Ensemble’s launch concert will be on 17th April at 8pm in St Ann's Church, Dawson Street. They will be performing works by students, teachers and alumni of the RIAM. Admission will be free and the concert will include seven world premieres, an Irish premiere and prize-winning composers and performers in a programme showcasing the huge variety in the output of the RIAM's composers. The concert will feature works by: Sebastian Adams, Breffni O'Byrne, Robert Coleman, Edgar Grunewald, Nori Krupp, Bill McGrath, Fergal Mulloy, Jonathan Nangle, Kevin O'Connell and Emma O'Halloran.

    http://www.facebook.com/kirkosensemble


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,858 ✭✭✭Undergod


    Undergod wrote: »
    Kirkos Ensemble Launch

    An interview with three of the composers - Robert Coleman, Sebastian Adams, and Bill McGrath - is on Lyric FM's Culture File, tonight at 6.40pm.


  • Registered Users Posts: 269 ✭✭whelanslive


    Whelanslive.com presents

    The Necks (Australia) (2 X 50 minute performances, no support)
    Saturday 15th September
    Whelan’s Of Wexford St
    Tickets €18.50 + booking fee available to buy online www.wavtickets.ie or call the WAV Box Office [lo-call 1890 200 078]

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    For fans of: Neu!, Steve Reich, Brian Eno, Autechre, Phillip Glass, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk etc

    one of the most extraordinary groups on the planet…not so much a trio as a revolutionary consortium redefining music… “ – The Guardian.

    One of the greatest bands in the world” – The New York Times.

    "Absolutely riveting...how three musicians can sound like eighteen is a mystery... extraordinary magical sounds emerged from the ensemble...the way The Necks do this with acoustic instruments is nothing short of miraculous" FINANCIAL TIMES

    After a mesmerizing show in Whelan’s in 2011 The Necks return to gently lull Dublin into a euphoric trance once more

    The Necks conjure music that defies description in orthodox terms. Not entirely avant-garde, nor minimalist, nor ambient, nor jazz, the music of The Necks is regularly described internationally as, simply, unique.

    Together for 25 years, the Australian cult trio have honed an assured process of building around repeated motifs through subtle shifts and layering, to produce an extraordinarily dense and hypnotic effect frequently underpinned by an insistent deep groove. As their dedicated followers know, their performances are entirely improvised consisting of two pieces evolving over around 50 minutes each and are an experience that has to be heard to be believed.

    2009 and 2010 proved outstanding years for The Necks, with an invitation from Nick Cave to appear at All Tomorrows Parties, two performances with Brian Eno in PURE SCENIUS, a 3-concert improvised collaboration, at Sydney Opera House and Brighton Festival 2010, and major tours of US and Europe including their collaboration with Back to Back theatre group.

    In November 2011 they released their 16th album Mindset…their first on vinyl


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  • Registered Users Posts: 47 choral


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    John Zorn The Holy Visions
    featuring the Irish Debut of iconic composer and instrumentalist John Zorn.
    Thursday 4 October and Friday 5 October Dundalk, Louth Ireland
    Mr. Zorn is a towering pillar of a new-music universe he has worked tirelessly to foster and enrich. The New York Times
    Louth Contemporary Music Society celebrates the first Irish visit of New York based iconic composer and instrumentalist John Zorn in a mini-festival entitled John Zorn The Holy Visions on 4 and 5 October 2012. The Holy Visions features three performances including two world premieres of Zorn’s music.

    John Zorn is an American avant-garde composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. Drawing on his experience in a variety of genres including jazz, rock, classical, klezmer, film, cartoon, popular and improvised music, John Zorn has created an influential body of work that defies academic categories.

    "My musical world is like a little prism. You look through it and it goes off in a million different directions. Since every genre is the same, all musicians should be equally respected. It doesn't matter if it's jazz, blues, or classical. They're all the same." John Zorn.

    Zorn’s long time collaborator, the world-renowned Brazilian percussionist Cyro Baptista and his group Banquet of the Spirits, will perform music from their latest cd Caym: The Book of Angels which interprets Zorn’s sublime Masada songbook dedicated to the Jewish diaspora with a Brazilian and middle eastern twist. Banquet of the Spirits’ concert takes place on Thursday 4 October 2012 at 8pm in An Tain Theatre Dundalk.

    The following evening, Friday 5 October 2012, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart will perform an astonishingly beautiful new Zorn vocal work The Holy Visions —a mystery play in eleven strophes — concerning the life, work and philosophy of Hildegard von Bingen for five female voices (2012) in St.Nicholas’ Church of Ireland Dundalk. The EQ Ensemble conducted by Gavin Moloney will open Friday’s concert with a world premiere performance of Zorn’s work Missa Sine Voces (2012),a beautiful instrumental miniature for five players written in the form of a Requiem Mass.

    Performed as an encore to the Holy Visions concert earlier in the evening ( Friday 5 October 2012), Zorn returns to his first instrument for a very rare event—his first solo organ concert in Ireland when he will bring his compositional mind and improvisation skills to the beautiful Willis organ at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dundalk. The organ recital will take place in St. Patrick’s Cathedral Dundalk at 10.00 pm on Friday 5 October 2012. The organ recital is FREE to those who have purchased tickets for either the 4 or 5 October 2012 concerts.

    John Zorn The Holy Visions is presented by Louth Contemporary Music Society. Louth Contemporary Music Society is financially supported by the Arts Council and Create Louth.

    LISTINGS INFORMATION

    Cyro Baptista’s Banquet of the Spirits plays John Zorn’s Book of Angels
    8pm on Thursday 4 October 2012
    An Tain Theatre, The Town Hall, Dundalk
    Tickets: €20/Concessions €15
    Tel: 00 353 42 939 2919.
    Email: antaintheatre@dundalktown.ie

    The Holy Visions
    Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart
    EQ Ensemble
    8pm on Friday 5 October 2012
    St. Nicholas Church of Ireland Dundalk
    Tickets €20/Concessions €15
    www.centralticketbureau.com
    ROI: 0818 205 205

    UK: 0870 850 2896
    Also available from An Tain Theatre Box Office: 00 353 42 9392919

    Solo Organ Recital
    John Zorn
    10pm on Friday 5 October 2012
    St. Patrick’s Cathedral Dundalk
    The organ recital is FREE to those who have purchased tickets for either of the previous Zorn concerts on 4 or 5 October 2012. Tickets for the organ recital are only available by emailing eamonn@louthcms.org


    Cyro Baptista will also give a percussion workshop for Music Generation Louth on Friday 5 October 2012. Details of Cyro Baptista’s workshop are available soon from www.musicgenerationlouth.ie


  • Registered Users Posts: 269 ✭✭whelanslive


    Ensemble Economique
    + Guests
    Thursday 26th July
    Upstairs At Whelan's
    Doors 8pm
    Admission €7

    Ensemble Economique is Brian Pyle from Starving Weirdos and the last EE record (Crossing The Pass, By Torchlight) would be right up the street of any Morricone/Carpenter/Frizzi fans in particular but anyone into their brooding soundtrack/electronic stuff should definitely check EE out too.Does our subject still wear pink socks?

    Ensemble Economique - To Feel The Night As It Realy Is - YouTube

    Ensemble Economique - Sparks Exploding, Splintering Blackness - YouTube


    Bio
    Over the past few years Brian Pyle's (Starving Weirdos) solo project has begun to blossom into a force of atmospheric synth propulsion. Evolving from early sound sketches into fully formed soundtracks filled with longing, paranoia and encroaching darkness; his songs have come to exemplify the current synth resurgence while also rising above it to achieve a larger vision.

    Crossing The Pass, By Torchlight is undoubtedly Pyle's most complex and complete album to date. It unfolds as a narrative landscape that's as dense as the most poured over musical scores and equally as emotionally complex. The swelling single "To Feel The Night As It Really Is", which first appeared on its own, is now entwined in a album wrought with cracked glass emotions, wire wrapped tension and a bittersweet ebb of ennui. Though there is no companion script, it feels as if characters rise and fall, weep and sigh throughout the course of the album. Pyle has rendered a tensile world of feeling through his score and in the end you're left wondering what will happen to his and your own imaginary characters next.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,858 ✭✭✭Undergod


    Hilltown New Music Festival
    This is on this weekend - if anyone's around they should go see Kirkos Ensemble play on Friday night (John Cage works) and on Saturday afternoon (concert of music by young Irish composers).

    Not that I have any vested interest or anything!


  • Registered Users Posts: 2 I AM SOUND


    Rhys Chatham's A Crimson Grail is being performed at a free concert in the Liverpool Anglican Cathedral on Friday September 14th 2012 at 7:30pm, as part of the Liverpool Biennial 2012 Launch Weekend...

    This should be well worth the short journey across the Irish Sea!!!






  • Registered Users Posts: 269 ✭✭whelanslive


    This Thursday! For fans of Goblin and scary things. Only 7 bucks in. Do come!


    Ensemble Economique
    + Guests
    Thursday 26th July
    Upstairs At Whelan's
    Doors 8pm
    Admission €7

    Ensemble Economique is Brian Pyle from Starving Weirdos and the last EE record (Crossing The Pass, By Torchlight) would be right up the street of any Morricone/Carpenter/Frizzi fans in particular but anyone into their brooding soundtrack/electronic stuff should definitely check EE out too.Does our subject still wear pink socks?

    Ensemble Economique - To Feel The Night As It Realy Is - YouTube

    Ensemble Economique - Sparks Exploding, Splintering Blackness - YouTube


    Bio
    Over the past few years Brian Pyle's (Starving Weirdos) solo project has begun to blossom into a force of atmospheric synth propulsion. Evolving from early sound sketches into fully formed soundtracks filled with longing, paranoia and encroaching darkness; his songs have come to exemplify the current synth resurgence while also rising above it to achieve a larger vision.

    Crossing The Pass, By Torchlight is undoubtedly Pyle's most complex and complete album to date. It unfolds as a narrative landscape that's as dense as the most poured over musical scores and equally as emotionally complex. The swelling single "To Feel The Night As It Really Is", which first appeared on its own, is now entwined in a album wrought with cracked glass emotions, wire wrapped tension and a bittersweet ebb of ennui. Though there is no companion script, it feels as if characters rise and fall, weep and sigh throughout the course of the album. Pyle has rendered a tensile world of feeling through his score and in the end you're left wondering what will happen to his and your own imaginary characters next.


  • Registered Users Posts: 269 ✭✭whelanslive


    Whelanslive.com presents

    Lean Left (Andy Moore/Terrie Ex Vs Ken Vandermark & Paal Nilssen-Love)
    Tuesday 18th September
    Whelan's Of Wexford St
    Doors 8pm
    Tickets €16 including booking fee available from www.wavtickets.ie or call the WAV Box Office [Lo-call 1890 200 078]. Tickets also available from Tickets.ie.



    Ken Vandermark & Paal Nilssen-Love have played together since 2000 in various settings & as duo since 2002. The duo work within free expression while including a strong element of heavy rhythmic groove, melody, sound & noise. Together, they join Andy Moor & Terrie Ex of Dutch legends THE EX, who are known for mixing elements of rock, free improvisation, traditional folk & abstract noise to create their own very unique soundworld. Both duos converge, crashing along sometimes, creating a cacophonous racket but always musical & always ready to change direction or turn a new corner. The music is extroverted, energetic, powerful & inclusive but also confrontational & provocative, where rhythm, noise, melody & harmony melt together in perfect union.


  • Registered Users Posts: 269 ✭✭whelanslive


    ""the greatest rock band on the planet... At this point in time I think it’s safe to say that no one else has so successfully and rigorously disinterred and interrogated the basic tenets of rock music as Fu****susha and to think that at 60 years old Haino is still making the most radical and searching rock music of anyone’s career is a tribute to his commitment to the specifics of vision and his belief in the potential of the form. From where I’m sitting it feels like the whole history of rock music has led up to this" - David Keenan

    Whelanslive present

    Fush(it)susha
    Tuesday October 9th
    The Village, Wexford St
    Tickets €18.50 + booking fee available from www.wavtickets.ie and www.tickets.ie

    Keiji Haino has been at the forefront of the Japanese avant-garde music scene for four decades. A captivating solo performer, he has played two sold out residencies at cafe oto that have demonstrated his versatility - from fleet fingered duo encounters with Peter Brötzmann and Steve Noble to the insane dynamic range of his solo vocal incantations. We've always wanted to work with Haino to present some of more adventurous rock-informed projects but needed a more expansive space to accommodate it. It was some sweet syncronicity that our discovery of Hackney's magnificent Round Chapel coincided with Haino's reinstigation of Fu****susha - his most potent realisation of rock music's primal energy and radical potential.

    FU****SUSHA

    Keiji Haino's extensive career has encompassed a dizzying range of approaches from wild, guitar-led ensemble rock and near-Neolithic drumming; live electronics, untutored explorations of lute and flute, to voice experiments and extended performances for gamelan and other percussion. He has also collaborated widely with the likes of Derek Bailey, Merzbow, Jim O'Rourke and Tony Conrad. Throughout, Haino has retained a visionary focus upon temporary suspension through noise (and silence) whilst refining a mercurial, highly distinctive method and an arrestingly dramatic on-stage presence. In Fu****susha he is joined by original Fu****susha/Kousokuya drummer Ikuro Takahashi and bassist Mitsuru Nasuno (who Haino also plays with in Seijaku). Their disc Hikari to Nazukeyo was one of the most hotly anticipating releases of 2012.


  • Registered Users Posts: 269 ✭✭whelanslive


    Tonight! No Spill Blood support.

    Here's a full show LL did last year. Amazing stuff altogether



    Whelanslive.com presents

    Lean Left (Andy Moore/Terrie Ex Vs Ken Vandermark & Paal Nilssen-Love)
    Tuesday 18th September
    Whelan's Of Wexford St
    Doors 8pm
    Tickets €16 including booking fee available from www.wavtickets.ie or call the WAV Box Office [Lo-call 1890 200 078]. Tickets also available from Tickets.ie.



    Ken Vandermark & Paal Nilssen-Love have played together since 2000 in various settings & as duo since 2002. The duo work within free expression while including a strong element of heavy rhythmic groove, melody, sound & noise. Together, they join Andy Moor & Terrie Ex of Dutch legends THE EX, who are known for mixing elements of rock, free improvisation, traditional folk & abstract noise to create their own very unique soundworld. Both duos converge, crashing along sometimes, creating a cacophonous racket but always musical & always ready to change direction or turn a new corner. The music is extroverted, energetic, powerful & inclusive but also confrontational & provocative, where rhythm, noise, melody & harmony melt together in perfect union.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2 Con Artist


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    Fennesz [Touch / Editions Mego - Vienna]
    + Cian Nugent [VHF Records]
    + Withering Zithering [Acre Recordings]
    + visuals by Donal Dineen

    Dublin Unitarian Church, St. Stephen’s Green West.
    Saturday October 20th. 19.30 - 23.00.

    Facebook Event

    Con Artist Productions are proud to present an evening of the finest electronic and improv music from Withering Zithering, Cian Nugent and very special guest, Christian Fennesz. Visuals will be created by Mr. Donal Dineen and projected across the venue transforming this already stunning environment into another people place. Holding court in the evocative Gothic architecture of the Unitarian Church, the venue’s acoustics are sure to be a key participant in the evening’s performances.

    Fennesz

    Christian Fennesz uses guitar and computer to create a shimmering, swirling electronic sound of enormous range and complex musicality. “Imagine the electric guitar severed from cliché and all of its physical limitations, shaping a bold new musical language.” His lush and luminant compositions are anything but sterile computer experiments, they resemble sensitive, telescopic recordings of rainforest insect life or natural atmospheric occurrences, an inherent naturalism permeating each piece.

    Fennesz has been a “must see” on the electronic music scene for several years, thanks both to his own particular musical world as well as his impeccable work in creating beautiful compositions for guitar. Somewhere between concrete music, classical and ambience sounds, he stretches musical resources and effects to create melodies and atmospheres that fuse classical and orchestral concepts with conceptual musical research and complex digital structures. His recordings such as Hotel Paral.lel , Endless Summer, Black Sea, Flumina and 7 Stars are key moments in contemporary electronic digital music.

    Since the 90s, Fennesz has played live, collaborated and recorded with the likes of Ryuichi Sakamoto (Yellow Magic Orchestra), British electroacoustic improvisation icon Keith Rowe and American pop group Sparklehorse. He has also worked alongside Peter Rehberg and Jim O'Rourke in the improvisional trio Fenn O'Berg, and with singers Mike Patton (Faith no More) and David Sylvian. Having a natural affinity to the world of cinema, Fennesz has provided soundtracks for several films including AUN: The Beginning and the End of All Things, Beyond the Ocean and Dusl’s Blue Moon.

    Fennesz’s latest release is a reworking of ‘Fa’ from his debut album, Hotel Paral.lel, and is backed by a new mix by the ever productive Mark Fell, adding his unique beat structures, and even a MLK sample, which lends his contemporary rhythmic landscape a odd nostalgic twist. This 12” can be seen as a warm up for the new Fennesz album, which is currently scheduled for 2013 release.

    Facebook
    fennesz.com
    Red Bull Music Academy Lecture
    myspace.com/fennesz
    editionsmego.com

    Cian Nugent

    Cian Nugent is a guitar player and composer from Dublin, Ireland who combines personal passions, such as suburban/coastal blues, traditional musics, late 1960s & '70s singer-songwriters, jazz ambitions, 20th century composition and the Takoma school into a deeply personal style. His music boasts an orchestrated and fully instrumented sound that is playful and eerie at the same time.

    Over the past 4 years he has toured with people such as Jack Rose, Glenn Jones, Micah Blue Smaldone, Ben Reynolds, Nalle, The Family Elan, George Stavis, Jozef van Wissem, C Joynes, Peter Delaney, Thinguma*jigSaw and James Blackshaw throughout Europe and the United States.

    "Nugent's already mastered dynamics tone and articulation. He introduces each new melody or change of emotional tenor at precisely the right moment to keep you on the edge with him, and his tunes are sturdy and lovely things [...] Mighty good." The Wire

    ciannugent.bandcamp.com
    soundcloud.com/cian-nugent
    facebook.com/ciancnugent
    cnugent.tumblr.com


    Withering Zithering

    Withering Zithering is the abstract and largely improvised side project of Ed Devane. Music made for low light conditions, contemplation, and induced visual stimulus: Withering Zithering is an experiment in restraint, live performance, the use of home-made instruments and non-standard playing techniques.

    Whereas most of the music released under the name Ed Devane is relatively noisy, rhythmic, and machine-like, Withering Zithering is lush, ambient and organic. Using a home-made zither and hands, metal bars and sticks to manipulate this source, Devane shows a side to his music only hinted at on his official releases. An album is currently in pre-production and will be released on Forewind Records in the coming time units of your choice.

    As Ed himself explains:

    “Withering Zithering has only recently moved from the confines of my bedroom and personal listening to public performances. My aim with this project is to slowly hypnotise people rather than to bludgen; to mix a degree of musicality with liberal splashes of noise and abstract sound, to challenge and reward the listener. Mostly this music is the result of experimentation and lots of improvisation, sitting on comfortable chairs, with slippers, green tea and a full range monitoring system...and lots of homemade zithers!”

    soundcloud.com/withering-zithering
    stop-run-music.com
    eddevane.com

    Donal Dineen

    Kerryman Donal Dineen is a pioneering DJ, Photographer and Filmmaker. He contributes to and curates a multitude of music/film and visual events. He had a much loved Radio Show on Today FM - The Small Hours - which came to a glorious end on Dec 1st 2011. Donal has a recording project, Parish, which features Niwel Tsumbu, Liam O Maonlai, Ronan O Snodaigh, Andre Antunes, Peter Erdei and Aminah Dastan. This evening will see Donal projecting visuals across the church, transforming it into another people place.

    facebook.com/DonalDineen
    facebook.com/ParishRecords
    http://smallhours.fm/

    Tickets available from Elastic Witch, All City Records and online via PayPal (con.artistes@gmail.com) and tickets.ie priced €19.50 (includes booking fee)
    and from the following retail outlets nationwide:

    Cork: Plugd Records, Triskel Arts Centre, Caroline Street, Cork. 353 (0)21 427 6300
    Donegal: Sweeney Todd's, Market Square Shopping Centre, Bundoran, Co. Donegal.
    Dublin: Elastic Witch, Twisted Pepper, 54 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin 1
    Dublin: Spindizzy Records, 32 Market Arcade, Georges St, Dublin 2 353 (0)1 671 1711
    Dublin: All City Records, 4 Crow Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2. 353 (0)1 677 2994
    Dublin: E2Music, Dame St., Dublin 2.
    Limerick: The Scholar's Club, University of Limerick, Limerick. 353 (0)61 234378
    Meath: E2Music, Unit 4 Kennedy Road, Navan, Co. Meath. 353 (0)46 902 3254


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  • Registered Users Posts: 217 ✭✭Sagi


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 834 ✭✭✭kingdumb


    Are there any hostels in Dundalk ?


  • Registered Users Posts: 269 ✭✭whelanslive


    Whelanslive presents

    MARIA & THE MIRRORS
    Upstairs @ Whelan's
    Friday October 19th
    Doors 11pm

    FREE ENTRY
    Sign up here for guestlist https://www.facebook.com/events/284733041630856

    Hailing from London, experimental tribal noise trio Maria & The Mirrors make their Irish debut upstairs at Whelan's on October 19th. Comprising of two live drummers and a wall of electronics they harness the wild rhythmic unsensibilities of Liquid Liquid and Throbbing Gristle and end up somewhere between Factory Floor covering Tom Tom Club inside a collapsing building. This is going to be ****ing wild.


    Travelsex (NSFW)





    Gemini (Enjoy Life)



  • Registered Users Posts: 38 eimear_


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    Totally Dublin Present: The Haxan Cloak (Triangle, UK) Dec 1st @ The Twisted Pepper

    Totally Dublin Present:
    The Haxan Cloak (Triangle, UK)


    December 1st / 8pm / The Twisted Pepper
    Advance Tickets @ €10/8 available here: http://m.bodytonicmusic.com/events/3228/


    www.Bodytonicmusic.com
    www.thetwistedpepper.com


    Bobby Krlic's debut album as The Haxan Cloak, which emerged in 2011 through Aurora Borealis, was far more intricate, carefully arranged and accomplished than your average debut.The Haxan Cloak was a set of eight dense, light-starved compositions that, as the project's name suggested, alluded to very British ideas of the occult. Its ragged string drones, groaning low-end and sunken choirs called to mind visions of sodden grey and green moorland, slate barrows and knackered old mining equipment, like a late autumn wander through some of the more isolated regions of the North of England.


    In 2012, he released The Men Parted the Sea To Devour the Water, the first material served up since the announcement of his signing to Tri Angle. Interestingly, it’s a live session for Latitudes – an imprint set up by Southern Records and a re-interpretation of his previous work. Spectres of his productions remain; the beginning of the B-side is a large chunk of ‘Hounfour (Temple)’ from his captivating Observatory EP played lo-fi and heavy live (though the fidelity could just be my record, which has quite an impressive warp). There’s no sense that the music is just being directly translated into the live setting, instead the existing architecture is being acutely reassessed and revaluated to provide new angles with Krlic apparently looking at it as like remixing his own music.


    "astonishing success, moulding elements of modern classical, dark ambient, doom metal, drone, industrial and dub-attuned electronic music into a unique hybrid form that demands to be taken very seriously indeed." - FACT MAG


    "It can’t last though; ominous noise breaches the peace and hints at the darker realms of Haxan Cloak that could very well swallow you whole." - Sonic Router


    "This album makes you ask: can fear and beauty coincide? But to find the answer, you have to walk that corridor for yourself." - The Line of Best Fit


    Having just finished an EU tour supporting Liars and a number of dates with Laurel Halo, The Haxan Cloak comes to The Twisted Pepper, Dec 1st.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6 kristin23




  • Registered Users Posts: 25 BlackYogurt


    Cut Hands will be a great gig. Will be heading to the Haxan Cloak also....


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,245 ✭✭✭old gregg


    Expanding the blurb on this as it's my event :)

    On Friday night 08th February, as part of Waterford New Music Week, I'll be performing music from my forthcoming live album 'Berlin Alexanderplatz' based around field recordings made in Berlin and performed at festivals and events around Europe over the last 2.5 years. Expect a mix of urban sounds and spacey ambient electronic music. Should be finished by 20:30.

    All welcome and free.
    FB event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/413147865427121/
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 241 ✭✭Dizraeligears


    I see you've been added to the bill at http://phaseonefestival.wordpress.com/ festival old_gregg.look forward to seeing you there...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,245 ✭✭✭old gregg


    I see you've been added to the bill at http://phaseonefestival.wordpress.com/ festival old_gregg.look forward to seeing you there...

    Yep, looking forward to it too. Playing on the same bill as Biosphere is a goal achieved. Thanks and do say hi so we can grab a beer.


  • Registered Users Posts: 446 ✭✭paulelectronica


    Phase One looks like a great festival , really good line up . Love to be going to it. Really hope it is successful.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2 karamdeep


    so we all are talking about new upcoming experimental projects here:D. I would like to tell you that one of youngest and by far most one of the most successful improviser Bram Stadhouders is coming up with much anticipated new project called Henosis. Check it out and lsiten to the voice samples:rolleyes:.
    http://www.bramstadhouders.nl/page1/page0/
    Let me know what do you think :):o


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,245 ✭✭✭old gregg


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    Tickets available from Garter Lane Box Office
    Full weekend ticket €50
    Saturday (including workshops) €30
    Sunday (including workshops) €30


  • Registered Users Posts: 59 ✭✭phonchoman


    NeXus Arts presents: The Sleep Concert - by Steven Stapleton aka NURSE WITH WOUND
    As part of DROGHEDA ARTS FESTIVAL 2014


    A bed-and-breakfast concert!
    An absurd idea? Maybe?
    A unique experience? Definitely!

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    Nexus Arts is incredibly excited to host the Irish premiere of the legendary ’NURSE WITH WOUND’ maestro Steven Stapleton's ‘The Sleep Concert’. Stapleton will perform his dark ambient music live throughout the night manipulating and re-animating his own Nurse with Wounds records to colour and shape your dreams in an avant – DJ somniloquy. This will be accompanied by large film projections which will enhance the experience. The audience will be asked to sleep over for the duration of the concert.
    Participants will receive a single air bed, a blanket, a breakfast plus travel to and from the event.
    This collective sleepover will be hosted in a stunning and exclusive secret location in the vicinity of Drogheda. This truly unique experience is of limited capacity.

    Steven’s only request for his performance is that ‘He'd greatly appreciate it if the audience could snore in tune."

    PRACTICAL INFORMATION

    Date: Friday 2/05/14
    Time: Friday 2/05 pick up by bus at 10pm at Highlanes Gallery - Saturday 03/05 drop off by bus at 9.30am at Highlanes Gallery
    Ticket Price: €35 - only 50 tickets available
    Website: www.nexusarts.eu ; www.droghedaartsfestival.ie
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/NeXus-Arts/275312585855770?ref=hl ; https://www.facebook.com/DroghedaArtsFestival?fref=ts
    Twitter: @NeXus_Arts ; @drogartsfest

    Tickets will go for sale from 31/03 on the festival website www.droghedaartsfestival.ie


  • Registered Users Posts: 12 Electric Underg


    Diamond Version = Alva Noto (Carsten Nicolai) + Byetone (Olaf Bender) [Raster-Noton/Mute]
    Live A/V + Dj Set
    S_P_A_C_E_S (Bleep Records)
    !Kaboogie Djs
    This Saturday
    The Button Factory

    Tickets available from Eventbrite.ie


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 193 ✭✭rahmalec


    Not to be missed, a great night showing some of the amazing things that can be done with percussion instruments! :cool:


    Rising Star 2015: Alex Petcu-Colan, percussion
    Tuesday 17th February, 8.00pm
    www.nch.ie/Online/Rising-Star-17Feb15

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    Room: Main Auditorium
    Prices: €15 (Concessions €10)

    Admission free for Friends of the National Concert Hall (Limited to 2 per Friend and subject to availability)
    20% discount for groups of 10 or more

    Alex Petcu-Colan, percussion

    The National Concert Hall is delighted to announce Alex Petcu-Colan as its Rising Star for 2015.

    Playing over 50,000 notes on more than 80 instruments, Alex Petcu-Colan takes us on a journey through time and space with some of the most colourful and thrilling music composed for percussion.

    Joined by his sister Ioana Petcu-Colan (violin), and friends Chris Stynes, Maeve O'Hara and Caitriona Frost (percussion), the programme includes Donnacha Dennehy's energetic Paddy and Xenakis's powerful Psappha to a transcription of Debussy's elegant Arabesque No.1 and Karl "Amadeus" Menke's theatrical Eine Kleine Tischmusik.

    An Irish musician of Romanian origin, Alex is quickly establishing himself both nationally and internationally as a percussionist of the finest calibre. One of the few Irish percussionists to focus on solo and chamber music, Alex has championed and developed the existing repertoire by giving numerous recitals and working closely with composers.

    Rebonds B by Iannis Xenakis
    Oh Mistress Mine chorale by Tom Lane
    Velocities by Joseph Schwantner
    Arabesque No. 1 by Claude Debussy
    Ampel A by Komitas
    Prelude and Fugue for violin and marimba by Sam Perkin
    Trio per UNO by Nebosja Jovan Zivkovic
    Psappha by Iannis Xenakis
    Omphalo Centric Lecture by Nigel Westlake
    Eine Kleine Tischmusik by Manfred "Amadeus" Menke
    Uneven Souls by Nebosja Jovan Zivkovic

    www.nch.ie/Online/Rising-Star-17Feb15
    www.alexpetcu.com
    www.facebook.com/alexpetcupercussion
    www.youtube.com/rahmalec
    www.soundcloud.com/alexpetcu


  • Registered Users Posts: 7 LouthCMS


    asleep, forest, melody,path composed by Michael Pisaro. Carol Robinson, clarinet and Séverine Ballon, cello with field recordings by David Stalling

    Louth Contemporary Music Society (LCMS) present a unique evening of sounds and silence. Journey through an atmosphere of intricate soundscapes and absolute stillness with this exclusive upcoming performance of Los Angeles based composer Michael Pisaro’s work asleep, forest, melody, path (2013) for musicians and field recordings in the unique setting of the Oriel Centre at Dundalk Gaol on Saturday 17 October 2015 at 8pm.


    Ticket price:€10

    More info: louthcms.org

    Tickets available via Eventbrite.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1 stu mollusc


    +++Fungal Flute presents a dismal night of mid-week dissoance+++

    TENTERHOOKS DUBLIN///TUESDAY NOVEMBER 24TH/// BYOB///8 pm///8 euro.
    (I cant post links or the poster as Im a 'new user' :()
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    Unyielding Love
    New darlings of Belfast uglyness, grinding-noise with sludgy BM sensibilities. Angry young men barely holding onto the reigns of runaway-despair.


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    Knifedoutofexistence;
    Harsh realism from the UK. Brooding dread kicking your face in. Being stabbed by your own pointlessness. Curb-stomped by your own inadequacies. Ex-Witchcult, current Swallowing.

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    Siorai Geimhreadh
    Best active band in Ireland. Experimental Blackened Noise Rock goes some way to describe their sound, but falls short. Nihilistic swirling dirges of Synnott on Synnott on Synnott action.

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    GOURD
    Punishing filth crawling relentlessly. New Doom/Noise duo from the putrid depths. On wreck of pain of Hesperus Death.


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    Luxury Mollusc
    A bed full of Bobbit worms. Atmospheric harshness. Scrap, disease.

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    TENTERHOOKS - New Market Square, by the Dublin food co op.

    The space has a limited capacity so arrive early to avoid disappointment. We're striving to make Tenterhooks a safe space where everyone can have a good time without any bull****. Just be sound, respect the space and each other. We are a byob venue but please do not drink outside the venue. Respect our neighbours.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 237 ✭✭Buddhapadge


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    Edge Hunters present:

    THE CORDED WARE (Doom/improv minimalism from Dublin)

    Anseo, Thursday 14th April, 9.30
    Free Admission

    thecordedware.bandcamp.com

    https://www.facebook.com/events/699390723536998/699798700162867/


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