Soundings 0329: An Evening Of Improvisation And Sound Art

Robin Parmar

With Performers From Ireland, The UK And Spain.

Soundings is pleased to present an evening of improvisation and sound art at Daghdha Space, Limerick on Thursday March 29 at 8pm. Appearing will be John Tilbury, pianist and a member of AMM since 1965; Wade Matthews, clarinet and software; Paul Vogel, electronics; Dave Lacey, percussion; and Lee Paterson, amplified everyday objects.

Soundings 0329 is part of the second season of Soundings events. The restored Daghdha Space (John's Square, Limerick, Ireland) provides a beautiful environment for a performance series designed to open the senses to new forms of music, sound art and media interaction.

David Lacey utilizes acoustic percussion along with low-grade electronics and field recordings in regular collaborations with Paul Vogel and Fergus Kelly. He has worked with many other artists, including Rhodri Davies, Mark Wastell and Keith Rowe. Lacey has composed music for theatre and contemporary dance groups. Based in Dublin, he is known for his work in Irish electronic outfit Decal.

American improviser Wade Matthews was born in France and has been living in Spain since 1989. He has developed his own improvisatory language on bass clarinet and alto flute, informed by software synthesis and his studies at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Centre in New York.

Lee Patterson is an idiosyncratic sound artist and improvising musician who works with everyday objects and amplified devices. He has performed in a number of European events in the last five years, including the Donau festival, Austria, 2006, where he worked alongside David Toop and Rhodri Davies in "Sound Body". last summer he produced the radio programme Audio Sketchbook for Resonance FM, drawing upon his archive of field recordings. Patterson is based in Manchester.

John Tilbury has been a member of the free improvisation group AMM since 1965. He has performed in many countries around the world, and is widely respected as one of the foremost interpreters of Morton Feldman. Tilbury records for Sony Classical. His biography of Cornelius Cardew will be published this year.

Paul Vogel has been playing freely improvised music since 1979. As part of the Bristol Musicians' Co-Operative, he collaborated in performance with musicians including Phil Durrant, Lucy Lucy, Bret Hornby, Bob Helson, Ian and Will Menter, Barry Leigh and Mark Langford. He resumed performing in 1997 with a move to electronics and now plays internationally.

Admission is only 10 euros at the door (concession 5 euros). Thanks to their sponsorship, University of Limerick students are free with student ID. Space is limited: first come, first served.

Soundings is curated by Robin Parmar and Jürgen Simpson. We are proud to be partnered with Daghdha Dance Company and the University of Limerick. For this event we thank the British Council Ireland, The Arts Council and the i-and-e festival for assistance.

Visit our website, www.soundings.ie, for more information.

John

Sounds very interesting but the first come, first served policy is a bit annoying for people who'd have to travel across the country to go. Plus it's a Thursday night. Still, great line up!

cornbb

Its worth the trip John! Its an amazing venue, well worth checking out.

John

It's the timing that's a real problem, I teach late on Thursdays and have to be back in college early on Friday mornings for experiments.