Sounds From A Safe Harbour

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Serious line-up of acts for this new Cork festival in September per Jim Carroll's blog http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/ontherecord/2015/04/29/sounds-from-a-safe-harbour-cork-september/

The Gloaming, This Is How We Fly, Lisa Hannigan, Amiina, Julianna Barwick, Aaron Dessner, Valgeir Sigurðsson, Richard Reed Parry, My Brightest Diamond, So Percussion, Liam Byrne, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Donal Dineen

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Sounds from a Safe Harbour

A festival of music, art and conversation

Curated by Bryce Dessner (The National)

September 17 - 20, Cork

Sounds from a Safe Harbour is a brand new festival of music, art and conversation, curated by Bryce Dessner of The National. Two years since its inception by Bryce and Cork Opera House CEO, Mary Hickson, Sounds from a Safe Harbour will bring a huge international creative cast to Cork this September to celebrate the port city’s place on the world’s stage in a unique setting.

Alongside Cork’s spectacular harbour environs, themes of waves, water and movement have been the inspiration for the festival, and will be explored through many new commissions and collaborations specially programmed for Sounds from a Safe Harbour. The festival will activate the City through many art forms including visual arts, conversation, dance, film and music. Collaboration and shared experiences are strong themes in the festival, and audiences are encouraged to immerse themselves and form part of the conversation.

‘Wave Movements’ - a new composition by Bryce Dessner and Richard Reed Parry (Arcade Fire) - will be the focal point of Sounds from a Safe Harbour. It will be performed at Cork Opera House by the RTE National Symphony Orchestra and accompanied with film by the celebrated Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto. This festival centrepiece was the nucleus of the idea that has evolved into Sounds from a Safe Harbour. Cork Opera House will also present a performance by Choice Music Award Winners The Gloaming, as well as a collaboration between Lisa Hannigan and Aaron Dessner. One more major announcement is set for June

Joining these concerts on a programme that truly traverses the oceans will be Shara Worden’s My Brightest Diamond; celebrated English organist James McVinnie; New York So Percussion and Nadia Sirota; Icelandic producer and composer Valgeir Sigurðsson with Icelandic compatriots Amiina,Ragnar Kjartansson, Kjartan Sveinsson and Skúli Sverrisson; Swedish / Irish fusion outfit This Is How We Fly; Parisian new-wave multi-instrumentalist Mina Tindle; US vocal looper Julianna Barwick; influential record label Bedroom Community; acclaimed artist and poet, Jessica Dessner.

There's a steller Irish contingent performing as part of Sounds from a Safe Harbour, with some of our country’s most creative contemporary artists appearing over the course of the four-day festival. Curator, film maker and photographer, Donal Dineen brings his magic; along with instrumental collective Crash Ensemble, specially commissioned work from Ailbhe ni Bhriain with Linda and Irene Buckley, and Cork-based Eat my Noise. A film programme co-ordinated by the Cork Film Festival will include Sigur Ros’ ‘Heima’ and The National’s ‘Mistaken for Strangers’, while pop-up conversation pieces, excursions and water-borne expeditions and other adventures are also in the pipeline.

“Sounds from a Safe Harbour has grown exponentially from my initial conversation with Mary Hickson into a huge, imaginative celebration and contextualisation of the initial idea alongside the port aspects of Cork,” says curator Bryce Dessner. “Rolling with the water, wave and sea themes, we decided to look to the river, the harbour and the port in making Sounds from a Safe Harbour. I’m especially looking forward to bringing ‘Wave Movements’ to Cork and performing it along with another composition of mine entitled ‘St. Carolyn by the Sea’, which myself and my brother Aaron will perform live the RTE National Symphony Orchestra.

“Collaboration is a huge part of my own practice and I enjoy very much exploring cross genre engagement. We have injected this energy into our festival and will be presenting music, art, film, conversation, dance and food across the weekend. The unifying factor being the music, this is the special glue that brings Sounds from a Safe Harbour home.”

In a unique and unified gesture, many of Cork city’s artistic spaces will participate in hosting the festival including Cork Opera House, The Everyman Palace Theatre, UCC, Port of Cork, Triskel Christchurch, Firkin Crane, Crawford Art Gallery, Wandesford Quay Gallery, Sternview Gallery and many more. There will also be an extensive music trail programmed throughout the city. As a prelude to the festival, some of the artists will take up very special residency at Lismore Castle, Co. Waterford, where many planned and spontaneous festival collaborations will originate.

“There is some really beautiful music out there that celebrates and connects us to water. Through Sounds from a Safe Harbour, we hope to share this with a city that has provided a safe harbour for musicians and artists alike across time,” concludes Bryce.

cruhoortwunk

Weekend tickets on sale now, only 150 tickets.
https://coh.pvxgateway.com/tickets/0D6601

czar

There are lots of other tickets available for all of the individual shows, which you will find on the festival website

soundsfromasafeharbour[dot]com

(can't post links!)

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Wild Beasts and more announced for Sounds from a Safe Harbour Festival

Wild Beasts are set to join a huge array of Irish and international artists performing during Bryce Dessner’s Sounds from a Safe Harbour Festival, taking place citywide across Cork this September 17 - 20. They join fellow headliners The Gloaming, Aaron Dessner and Lisa Hannigan, Bryce Dessner, Richard Reed Parry (Arcade Fire) and the RTE National Symphony Orchestra and many more during the four day long themed festival, celebrating the port city’s rich cultural history. Wild Beasts will headline Cork Opera House on Sunday, September 20.

Other new inclusions on a growing festival programme include a Music Trail curated by new Irish music writer and blogger, Nialler9. Hosted across Cork in Benny McCabe's venues, supported by Rising Sons Brewery, the trail will include some great contemporary Irish artists such as Slow Skies, I Am The Cosmos, Somerville, Bantum, Talos, Shookrah, Conor Walsh and Vinyl Love.

Another exciting addition to the festival is ‘Soundings from a Safe Harbour’. The show happens in three sections - the first is stories to inspire, then stories to alarm, and finally stories to humour. Each section is bridged by a song on those themes. For Soundings from a Safe Harbour Dylan Haskins and Lisa Hannigan will welcome guests and siblings Bryce, Aaron and Jessica Dessner in the unique setting of a Bonded Warehouse down on the Port of Cork,

On the culinary side of the programme, celebrated Cork chef Rocketman is set to host a foodie haven in Port of Cork’s iconic Bonded Warehouse. One of the city’s most historic buildings, Bonded Warehouse 8 will be transformed into ‘BAIT’, showcasing some of Cork’s finest culinary delights and will be the home of a special festival dining experience over the weekend - details of which will appear on line over the next from weeks. Cork’s Fab Food Trails will also bring festival goers off the beaten track to discover some of the city’s hidden foodie gems. Advance booking strongly advised for both of these events.

The Glucksman is honoured to present a week long exhibition of the mesmerising seascapes of renowned Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto. The exhibition will take place in one of the interior chambers of the historic observatory on the UCC Campus, evoking the connection between tide and moon, sea and stars. A long time collaborator of Bryce Dessner’s, Matthew Ritchie will also feature in the Glucksman’s Boolean Expressions exhibition. We are particularly thrilled to announce the screening of Ritchie’s 'Monstrance', which is scored by Bryce Dessner and features Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond).

As originally promised, Sounds from a Safe Harbour will take to the water, with the ‘Sail to Sirius’ taking place midday Saturday 19 September. A vessel will leave Port of Cork with 40 souls, bound for Sirius Arts Centre in Cobh. On board, the seafarers will be treated to a live performance by Landless before alighting at Sirius for lunch on the venue’s veranda, overlooking Cork Harbour. This will be followed with a double billed performance by Rainwear and Sirius Arts Centre’s artist in residence Nad Spiro.

Cork’s own Alex Petcu-Colan will present a percussion programme in CIT School of Music’s Curtis Auditorium with a programme entitled WoodMetalWater with the Bangers and Crash Percussion group. WoodMetalWater is a highly engaging concert that will take the audience on a journey through the sounds of Cork City Harbour. The programme is comprised of works by Steve Reich, Louis Andriessen, Tan Dun and Donnacha Dennehy and will be performed using sounds derived from wood, metal and water as sources.

Sounds from a Safe Harbour is also delighted to have Craig Carry of Fractured Air team up with Filter Cafe for an exhibition of work created in response to the festival programme, in addition we are delighted to welcome Cork Concert Orchestra and the Lords of Strut who will join a line up that features a diverse array of shipmates including This is the Kit, Mina Tindle, Amiina, James McVinnie, My Brightest Diamond, Donal Dineen, Eat My Noise, Ailbhe ni Bhrian, Nadia Sirota,Valgeir Sigurðsson, Linda and Irene Buckley, Ragnar Kjartansson, Kjartan Sveinsson, Skúli Sverrisson, Julianna Barwick and more.

There are small number of festival tickets still left for Sounds from a Safe Harbour, and tickets for individual performances across the weekend are available on the festival website soundsfromasafeharbourdot[com]. To encourage as many people to participate in Sounds from a Safe Harbour as possible, many of the events during the festival are free entry, details of which can be found on the website.

roll

jaysus that's some line-up! i'm beginning to hope we don't make the AI Final this year!

czar

this is just one of the many events happening during Sounds from a Safe Harbour:

Playing Your Heart Out

September 18
Aula Maxima
UCC
Cork

“A future fire will roar a glorious shout –
For now, Spiros, softly plays his heart out"

- Prof Ken O Halloran, from 'Heart and Breath'

Science and music embrace one another as some of the world's most celebrated musicians and composers come face-to-face with the finest minds in neuroscience and physiology at ‘Playing Your Heart Out’ – a performance and symposium taking place in the Aula Maxima, as part of the Sounds from a Safe Harbour festival.

This unique event is centred around Richard Reed Parry’s (Arcade Fire) ‘Duet for Heart and Breath’ – a piece dictated by the individual performers own heartbeat and breath, which requires the performers to wear stethoscopes. Performed by Parry along with internationally acclaimed Nadia Sirota, the piece will be followed by a discussion headed by UCC’s Chair of Neuroscience and Anatomy Dept. Prof John Cryan, Head of the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences Prof Ken O' Halloran, and the illustrious classical conductor Andre De Ridder.

This merging of science and music, exploring the physical effects of this compositional technique has on both the performer and the music itself, is a first for both fields according to Prof Cryan “To our knowledge, it has never been juxtaposed with a science context, and will be very exciting”.

The free event takes place on Friday 18th September at 1pm and is once in a lifetime chance to experience the top practitioners from diverse disciplines begin the conversation, exploring the symbiotic relationship between music, mind and body.


Sounds From A Safe Harbour is a Festival of Music, Art and Conversation taking place in Cork from 17 - 20 September, featuring over 450 artists at 70 events over 30 venues. It is curated by Bryce Dessner of The National and presented by Cork Opera House.

More information available at soundsfromasafeharbour.[dot]com

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I have 2 spare tickets for The Gloaming if anyone is interested. PM me.