Past Events

Sounds Electric '07, a week-long festival with a whopping 11 concerts, 3 audiovisual screenings, an international computer music competition, and a computer music conference, took place 20 - 24 November 2007 in and around the new Black Box Theatre of Dundalk Institute of Technology

Click here to download a pdf of the full programme

Sounds Electric ' 07 was supported by:

EAR play CMC Salon

The event took place on Thursday, 25 October 2007 in the Goethe-Institut in Dublin's Merrion Square and includes performances of works by Gordon Delap, Iain McCurdy, David Stalling, and Rory Walsh, along with informal discussions.

The Contemporary Music Centre's new music Salon series has been running since October 2003 and offers an opportunity to hear and discuss contemporary music in an informal atmosphere. The series provides a platform for performers and composers to experiment with new work without the pressures of a formal concert setting.

Programme

Gordon Delap New Work for Tape (premiere)
Iain McCurdy Umbra for ensemble and live processing (premiere)
David Stalling Boiling Point for ensemble, tape and live processing
Rory Walsh Cello and live processing

Antonio Cafolla, saxophone
Lioba Petrie, cello
Bryan Quigley, double bass

CMC’s Salon performances are made possible by the support of the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon.

EAR-drum Concert Series of Electroacoustic Music

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

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Works for Cello and 'Tape' at NUI, Maynooth

EAR (ElectroAcoustic Revue) featuring Multichannel electronic works and music for cello and computer.

Programme:

Steven Yi, Phenomena*
Brian Bridges, Freefalling*
Gordon Delap, Schlesinger's Forge
Rory Walsh, 4.csd
Jason Dixon, (un)lucky mutations
Victor Lazzarini, The Burial of the Dead
Fergal Dowling, Still

(*Premiere )

Lioba Petrie - cello

8.00 p.m. Thursday 8th March, Aula Maxima, NUI, Maynooth

EAR-plugged Festival of Electro-acoustic Music

featuring new works by some of the leading figures of Irish, British and European electronic music,
8-9 December 2006, The LAB, Foley Street, Dublin 1.

FREE ADMISSION TO ALL EVENTS

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Friday 8 December, 8.00 p.m., Concert of Mixed Music, Tape and Video Works

• Victor Lazzarini, The Trane Thing (for saxophone and live electronics)
  
• Fergal Dowling, Still (for cello and tape)
  
• David Stalling, new work (for saxophone, cello, bass and live electronics)
• Rory Walsh, cellopiece.csd (for cello and live processing)
  
• Gordon Delap, Light Body Corpuscles (for tape and video)
  
• Hans Tutschku, Rojo (for eight loudspeakers)
  
• David Stalling and Anthony Kelly, asphalt (digital video, tape, live sound)

Saturday 9 December, 1.00 p.m., Concert of Selected Tape Music

• Pete Stollery, Vox Magna
• Adam Stansbie, Early Morning
  
• Massimo Fragalà  Blue Water
  
• Panayiotis Kokoras, Anechoic Pulse
  
• Jean O'Sullivan, Image
  
• Hannes Seidl, Drawings

Saturday 9 December, 2.00 p.m., Workshop

• Victor Lazzarini and Rory Walsh, workshop "Synthesis in Csound"

Saturday 9 December, 3.00 p.m., Workshop

• Invited composers (Ann Cleare, Karen Power, Linda Buckley, Brian Bridges and others) talk about their works which will be presented this evening's programme.

Saturday 9 December, 4.00 p.m., Workshop

• Slavek Kwi, workshop on improvisation.

Saturday 9 December, 8.00 p.m., Double-bill Concert; EAR Ensemble, 'tape' music, and free-improvisation group SounDin

• John Levack Drever, Ochlophonic Study #2, Hong Kong
• Brian Bridges, Freefalling (for cello, tape and live processing by the composer)
  
• Linda Buckley, new work (for saxophone, cello, double-bass and tape)
  
• Ann Cleare, Saxophone Suite 88 5/9 (for saxophone and tape)
  
• Karen Power, Dan (for saxophone, cello, double-bass and tape)
  
• SounDin (electronic, and mixed media free-improvisation group), Situ.action [site - situation - action]

• Michael Maierhof Splitting 5 (Violin, Tape and TV)
• Fergal Dowling Ensemble (Premiere) (Mixed Ensemble and Live Computer)
• Victor Lazzarini And through the rhythm of moving slowly (Mixed ensemble and live computer)
• J.S. Bach Movements from Partitas for Solo Violin
• David Stalling Perils of Parallax (Premiere)
  (Mixed Ensemble and live computer)
• Rory Walsh Where do we go now but nowhere (Premiere) (Mixed Ensemble and Live Computer)
• Benjamin Dwyer Crow (Flute and Tape)
• Trevor Wishart VOX 5 (Multi-channel Tape)

Sounds Electric '05

3-Day Festival of Electro-Acoustic Music

A celebration of innovation and originality, the festival brought to Ireland leading international composers and performers in electronic and computer music, for an intense weekend of world class seminars and concerts, including a concert by the EAR Ensemble. SOUNDS ELECTRIC '05 took place at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, 2-4 December 2005. Many thanks to all who took part.

Visit the SOUNDS ELECTRIC '05 Festival home page

Full festival programme is now availible in .pdf format.

EAR present the CMC April Salon

presented by Victor Lazzarini
Saturday 9th April 2005
3.00-4.00pm
Project Arts Centre, Temple Bar, Dublin
Free Admission

EAR brought an eclectic programme to the Contemporary Music Centre's (CMC) April Salon. The concert included instrumental and electro-acoustic music, together with short films, by composition students of the PhD and MA in Computer Music programmes at the National University of Ireland (NUI), Maynooth. Ensemble members, David Stalling and Rory Walsh also added to the programme, and live sound diffusion was controlled by Victor Lazzarini.

Programme:

Time Piece, for tape, by Ruth Kennington (premiere)
Kausalität and different shine, Two short films by Anthony Kelly and David Stalling
Sans Titre, for solo violin, by Rory Walsh (premiere), Jane Charles - Violin
Tsunami, for violin and tape, by Barbara Dignam (premiere), Jane Charles - Violin
Mouvements, for tape, by Victor Lazzarini
Time-Lines Ia, for guitar and computer, by Victor Lazzarini (premiere), Brendan Walsh - Guitar
Stainless, for tape and dancer, by Ian Brabazon

Hugh Lane Gallery, Sundays at Noon

In a concert organised in conjunction with the Association of Irish Composers, EAR presents selections from its international call for one minute compositions.

Sunday, 9 November 2003,
12 noon Hugh Lane Gallery,
Parnell Square, Dublin.

Programme:

Brian Carty Water Study (four channel tape) (2003) (premiere)
Kaori Okatani Again (solo cello) (2003) (premiere)
David Stalling traffic (tape and ensemble) (2002)
Brandon McIntosh Day Dream (ensemble) (2003)
Mario Davidovsky Synchronisms No 10 (guitar and tape)
Victor Lazzarini Mouvements (eight channel tape) (2003) (premiere)
Daniel Gall The Sick Rose (voice and cello) (2003) (premiere)
Fergal Dowling duet (voice and electronics) (2003)
Luca Vanneschi Quiet Piece (ensemble) (2003) (premiere)
David Stalling en trance (ensemble and electronics) (2003) (premiere)

EAR on the Seine! LES UTOPIES SONORES 2

EAR perform on 'Le Vaisseau Fantôme' (Theatre barge on the river Seine) www.vaisseau.org

25 March 2003, 8.00 pm,
Quai du Mauriac, Paris.

Presented in association with Michel Bertier, this special concert featured renowned bassist Jean-Pierre Robert, performing in David Stalling's Traffic.

Programme:

Riet Bobbaers, eventjes (tape) création
Rory Walsh, piece.orc (cello, electronics)
Ian Brabazon, train on a brain (video) création
Mario Davidovsky, Synchronisms n°10 (guitar, tape)
Anthony Kelly, Denis Mc Ardle, David Stalling, Undertow (video)
Roderik de Man, wait a minute ! (tape)
Riet Bobbaers, Strings Entwined (guitar, tape)
Jamie Byrne, One on One (saxophone, cello) création
Victor Lazzarini The Trane Thing (saxophone, electronics) Interval...
Scott Wilkinson, Der Mönch am Meer (horn) création
Anthony Kelly, Denis Mc Ardle, David Stalling, the shape of the wind (video)
Rory Walsh, Xposition (electric guitar) création -
Victor Lazzarini, trois poèmes de Paul Eluard (voice, tape)
Scott Wilkinson, Rooms for rent (voice)
Anthony Kelly, Denis Mc Ardle, David Stalling, room (cello, video, sounds) création
Victor Lazzarini, Entr'acte (horn) création
Ian Brabazon, Fathom (video)
David Stalling, traffic (saxophone, horn, cello, contrabass, tape). Featuring Jean-Pierre Robert, on contrabass, (http://www.grame.fr/Productions/Solistes/home.html)