Ear-drum

EAR-drum Concert Series of Electroacoustic Music

27-31 March,
Project Arts Centre,
Temple Bar,
Dublin 2

All concerts 10E/8E

Dublin’s most innovative new music collective, Electro Acoustic Revue (EAR), will present “Ear-Drum”, a series of six electroacoustic concerts centred on the theme of percussion at Project Arts Centre. The diverse programme includes music for multichannel tape, diffused over a ‘virtual’ loudspeaker orchestra, as well as works for percussion with mixed ensemble and live electronics.

Highlights of the week will include a concert of Austrian and German music for percussion and electronics, and an evening of music from the San Francisco Tape Music Collective, featuring works by Pauline Oliveros, Matt Ingalls, Kent Jolly, James Tenney, and the Irish premiere of Golden by Brian Eno, the godfather of ambient music.

For bookings call (+353 1) 881 9613/14 or visit www.project.ie

FESTIVAL PROGRAMME

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TUESDAY 27 MARCH 8.15 P.M. MULTICHANNEL SPATIAL MUSIC

A chance to hear six of Fergal Dowling’s spatial compositions performed together. The programme will include immersive sound sculptures and multichannel compositions presented using a 3D loudspeaker array. Auditors will be free to wander through the space and explore the soundfield for themselves. The programme will run without interruption for one hour.

Programme:
Fergal Dowling's Rise, Falls, Pass, Rainground, Cloud Types for Auditors and In the Mean Time

WEDNESDAY 28 MARCH 8.15 P.M. ELECTRONIC WORKS BY NEW IRISH COMPOSERS

This concert will include tape music by the new generation of Irish electro acoustic composers, students from NUIM and DkIT. Details tba.

THURSDAY 29 MARCH 8.15 P.M. NEW AUSTRIAN AND GERMAN MUSIC FOR PERCUSSION AND ELECTRONICS

Maeve O'Hara, percussion
Fergal Dowling, computer

Programme:
Bernhard Gal, Defragmentation/blue ('tape')
Hannes Seidl, Gegenkontrolle (percussion and 'tape')
Christoph Ogiermann, I don't need any work, I've GOT enough to do ('tape')
Peter Ablinger, Kleinetrommel (Snare drum and FM-radio)
Christoph Ogiermann, The last gets bitten by the dog: NO sound-installation ('tape')
Karlheinz Essl, fLOW (improvised percussion and live computer)

FRIDAY 30 MARCH 8.15 P.M. AN EVENING OF MUSIC BY THE SAN FRANCISCO TAPE MUSIC COLLECTIVE

Inspired by the legendary 1960s San Francisco Tape Music Centre, the SFTMC is dedicated to presenting performances of audio art diffused through a surround-sound speaker environment. EAR are delighted to bring to Ireland for the first time a selection of music from the collective.

Programme:
Matt Ingalls, Fingerlingette *
Thom Blum, Cycle *
Kent Jolly, Sleep Walker *
James Tenney, For Ann (rising)
Cliff Caruthers, The House on the Hill *
Pauline Oliveros, Bye Bye Butterfly
Maggi Payne, Motor Rhythms *
Brian Eno, Golden *
Joseph Anderson, Mpingo *

(*Irish Premiere)

SATURDAY 31 MARCH 1.00 P.M. SELECTED MULTICHANNEL TAPE MUSIC

This concert will showcase electronic music from around the world, notably by Livio Tragtenberg, one of the leading contemporary composers from Brazil, Adam Stansbie, Jason Dixon and John ffitch, one of the developers of Csound. These works, most of which are Irish premieres, will be performed on a multichannel sound spatialisation rig, giving a full 'cinema for the ear' experience for the audience.

SATURDAY 31 MARCH 8.15 P.M. EAR ENSEMBLE: MUSIC FOR PERCUSSION, ENSEMBLE AND ELECTRONICS

This concert will include music by composers of the EAR collective, including especially commissioned music by Rory Walsh and David Stalling

Thomas Frisch, percussion
Bernie Balfe, clarinet
Lioba Petrie, cello
Bryan Quigley, double bass

Programme:
Victor Lazzarini, Streams *
Fergal Dowling, duet
Hilary Mullaney, low_r *
Tony Higgins, I'll be there in ten minutes
Riet Bobbaers, Cantiña *
Rory Walsh, untitled *
David Stalling, Parcours *

(*Premiere)