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anti-venom wrote: »Holy fcuk......this should be excellent! I'm a hugh fan of both Can and A.M.T. and Kawabata makoto's solo stuff. He's a true outsider genius as is Damo Suzuki. Thanks for posting about this gig.........:)
Hey, it's what this thread's for
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Soundings presents "Diffusion 2008"
Thursday September 25th, 2008 - 8PM, Daghda Performance Space, St. Johns Square, LimerickSOUNDINGS presents 'Diffusion 2008' featuring composers Trevor Wishart, Kerry Hagan and the prize-winning compositions of the 2008 Diffusion Prize. Also featured will be the Lyric FM commissioned premiere of Diffusion Prize 2006 composer Lucas Fagin. The concert will be presented in surround sound at the Daghda Space. There will be a preconcert talk with composer Trevor Wishart. There wil be a preconcert talk at 7pm Talk with composer Trevor Wishart.
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Not experimental but may be of interest, The Black Dog are playing this weekend in Dublin, some info here -
http://www.dogsquad.co.uk/tbd/
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John Tavener's Temenos Festival Louth 24-26 October 2008
Experience the beauty of the music of Sir John Tavener at the Temenos 08 festival music over the October bank holiday weekend 24- 26 Oct, with concerts in St Peter’s Church of Ireland in Drogheda and St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dundalk.
The programme includes some of Tavener’s most celebrated works: Song for Athene performed at Princess Diana’s funeral and The Protecting Veil. Artists include Billboard chart topping American vocal group Anonymous 4, The Ulster Orchestra and Grammy Award winning choir Polyphony – described by the critics as “possibly the best small professional chorus in the world.”
Tickets €30 from www.centralticketbureau.com
Telephone Bookings ROI: 0818 205 205; UK 0870 850 2896.
International :00 353 1 4487777
Programme
The Ulster Orchestra with Ioana Petcu Colan (Violin), Doreen Curran (Mezzo) and Marta Sudraba (Cello) Tõnu Kaljuste Conductor
Friday 24 October 2008 at 8pm
St.Peter’s Church of Ireland, Drogheda.
Tavener: Supernatural Songs
Tavener : Dhyana
Tavener: The Protecting Veil
The Ulster Orchestra conducted by Tõnu Kaljuste will perform for the first time in Drogheda on the 24 Oct 2008 in St.Peter’s Church of Ireland. The Ulster Orchestra, Northern Ireland's only full-time symphony orchestra and one of the major orchestras in the United Kingdom, opens John Tavener’s Temenos festival.
The performance by the Ulster Orchestra conducted by the world’s most respected conductors Tõnu Kaljuste will undoubtedly be a festival highlight. Kaljuste who was last in Drogheda as conductor of the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir’s sold out performance.Latvian cellist Marta Sudraba, will perform the Protecting Veil with the Ulster Orchestra on Friday 24 October 2008. One of Tavener's most famous works, The Protecting Veil for solo cello and string orchestra was commissioned by the BBC in 1989. Perhaps no other piece of modern classical music has caused such a stir since its debut (in the 1989 Proms) as this work has. 'The Protecting Veil' provides an Ikon in music of the mother of God during her life.The piece is profoundly beautiful.
Tickets €30 on sale from:
www.centralticketbureau.com
Polyphony with Marta Sudraba ( cello)
Stephen Layton Conductor
Patricia Rozario and the Oriel Trio
Saturday 25 Oct 2008 at 8pm
St.Patrick’s Cathedral, Dundalk.
Tavener: To a Child Dancing in the Wind
Tavener: Various Choral works including The Lamb, Song for Athene and O My People ( World Premiere)
One of the world’s best choirs, Grammy winner Polyphony will perform in St. Patrick’s Dundalk on 25 October 2008 as part of John Tavener’s Temenos festival. Polyphony conducted by the exceptional musician Stephen Layton will perform Tavener favourites alongside the world premiere of a new Tavener work ‘O My People’.
Dundalk audiences are in for a further treat with Patricia Rozario opening the Dundalk concert with Tavener’s To A Child Dancing in the Wind. Patricia Rozario’s described by Gramophone as possessing “a voice of liquid gold” regularly performs and records Tavener’s work and her performances are considered as definitive by the composer.
Tickets €30 on sale from:
www.centralticketbureau.com
Anonymous 4 and Rothko 4
Sunday 26 October at 8pm
St.Peter’s Church of Ireland, Drogheda.
Billboard chart topping American vocal group Anonymous 4 make their Irish debut in St. Peter's Church of Ireland on 26 October 2008. Renowned for their unearthly vocal blend and virtuosic ensemble singing, the four women of Anonymous 4 combine musical, literary, and historical scholarship with contemporary performance intuition as they create ingeniously designed programs of medieval, contemporary, and American music. Anonymous 4 will perform Irish and English early music works alongside works by John Tavener, Arvo Pärt, Alexander Knaifel and Valentin Silvestrov at the Temenos 08 festival.
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Nadja are playing on
Friday 28 November 2008
The Whiskey
Cork
Saturday 29 November 2008
The Lower Deck
Dublin
Ireland
with support from Altar of Plagues.
Nadja should be pretty damn intense. I recommend picking up Thaumogenesis by them.0 -
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AWESOME! And I second the Thaumogenesis suggestion (although it's out of print now isn't it?)0
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4 September 2008 | 8pm
ENSEMBLE ICC
Unitarian Church, 112 St. Stephen’s Green West, Dublin 2 | Map
Tickets €12/8 from www.tickets.ie
Performers: Cora Venus Lunny (viola), Kate Ellis (cello), Daniel Bodwell (bass), Karl Rooney (saxophone), Roger Moffat (percussion)
Composers: Simon O’Connor, Laura Kilty, Brian Bolger, Benedict Schlepper-Connolly, Amanda Feery, Dónal Adams, Scott McLaughlin, Francis Heery
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Erm, time travel?0
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Woops. I misread that entirely. There's something on by the ICC in the unitarian church on Wednesday, I believe, thought that was it.0
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DEAF 2008 Highlights!
Thurs 23
DEAF present
Nurse With Wound (USA/UK) *partially seated show*
+ support from Stephen O’Malley SUNN O))) (USA)
Andrews Lane Theatre, Andrews Lane, Dublin 2
7.30pm
€22 .50
Live recording for Lyric FM
Advanced tickets:: www.tickets.ie City Discs, Spindizzy, Road Records, WAV Tickets 1890 200 078
Fri 24
Forever present
Trans AM (USA
Village, Wexford Street, Dublin 2
7.30pm
€20+bk fee
Advanced tickets: www.tickets.ie / www.ticketmaster.ie / WAV Tickets 1890 200 078
Fri 24
Deadbeat presents
Part 1: 9pm to 11pm
‘Push Move Click’
4 piece Dublin based live electro-acoustic group+live visual manipulation artist Ben Gaulon(Recyclism)
Part 2 : 11pm to 2.30am
‘The Dirty Collective’
Featuring 16Hz and Johnny Oakley, Stephen Concannon,Konspiracy and Major Grave, the Galway-based Get Low crew, DJ Radikal Guru,T-woc (Alphabet Set / Rootical Soundsystem / Wobble), Grizzle and Colz (All City Records), and 2-bit (Alphabet Set / Invisible Agent).
Twisted Pepper, 54 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin 1
€10.00 all night
Sun 26
DEAF CLOSING PARTY
Model 500 (feat. Juan Atkins and Mike Banks live - USA),
Laurent Garnier (Fr),
Moritz Von Oswald Trio feat. Vladislav Delay (Fin), Max Loderbauer (Ger),
**** Buttons (UK),
Point B (UK),
Chef (UK),
Americhord (Irl),
Annie Hall (D1 Esp),
Chequerboard (Irl),
Rollers/Sparkers (Irl),
Legion of Two (Irl),
!Kaboogie and D1 Recordings DJ’s + more tbc.
Visuals by Mercuryboy + Metaldragon
3 STAGES EVENT - Access All Areas
Village, Whelans and Whelans Upstairs, Wexford Street, Dublin 2
7.30pm sharp to 3.00am
€35 + booking fee
www.tickets.ie City Discs, Spindizzy, Road Records, WAV Tickets 1890 200 078
Sun 26
Maximum Joy present
White Noise performing ‘An Electric Storm’ live (Dave Vorhaus & Mark Jenkins, UK)
Polly Fibre (Live, UK)
Broadcast (Warp, UK) DJ Set
Followed by
B-MUSIC SPECIAL featuring
Andy Votel (UK)
Dom Thomas (UK)
Broadcast (UK)+ Maximum Joy (Irl) DJs
Sugar Club, 8 Leeson Street, Dublin 2
7.30pm to 2.30am
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Indian Jewellery are playing in Whelans on Oct 18th (this saturday) with Twin Kranes. They're also playing in The Whisky on the 17th in Cork.
Really cool art/noise rock band, i'd reccomend checking them out and can only imagine they'd be great live.
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Also, in case any of ye haven't noticed already (and this probably belongs in the indie forum but whatevz) STEREOLAB are playing on
Friday 12 December
at The Pavilion in Cork.
Saturday 13 December 2008
Tripod
Dublin
Sunday 14 December 2008
The Black Box
Belfast
I've heard that tickets for the Cork gig are selling pretty fast so if you're interested you'd want to be acting fast. I already have mine and really really can't wait to see them already.0 -
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Louth Contemporary Music Society (LCMS) will host a major celebration of the work of Sir John Tavener in its Temenos Festival from Friday 24 to Sunday 26 October 2008 in venues in Louth Ireland.
Festival highlights include the first Irish performance by Anonymous 4 with the Irish string quartet Rothko 4, the Ulster Orchestra conducted by Tõnu Kaljuste performing the Protecting Veil with Marta Sudraba,a world premiere of John Tavener’s O My People. O My People is a moving Byzantine text taken from the Service of the Twelve Gospels, celebrated at one o'clock in the morning of Good Friday in the Orthodox Church. O My People will be performed by Polyphony conducted by Stephen Layton, plus Patricia Rozario and the Oriel Trio in Tavener’s Yeat’s influenced work To a Child Dancing in the Wind.
“Temenos” is a Greek word for sacred space and it is apt that the festival focuses on Tavener who is strongly influenced by sacred and spiritual texts.
A leading figure in the world of 20th-century British music, Sir John Tavener's choral and orchestral works reflect his deeply spiritual outlook and distinctive musical voice. He is perhaps best known to worldwide audiences for his Song for Athene, which was performed at the funeral of Princess Diana in 1997, his Protecting Veil which was a world wide selling cd, and his vast, 7-hour work, The Veil of the Temple, was featured in the 2004 Lincoln Center Festival.
Festival Highlights:
Friday 24 October 2008 : The Ulster Orchestra conducted by Tõnu Kaljuste on in St.Peter's Church of Ireland, Drogheda.
The Ulster Orchestra conducted by Tõnu Kaljuste will perform for the first time in Drogheda on the 24 Oct 2008 in St.Peter's Church of Ireland. The Ulster Orchestra, Northern Ireland's only full-time symphony orchestra and one of the major orchestras in the United Kingdom, opens John Tavener's Temenos festival.
The performance by the Ulster Orchestra conducted by the world's most respected conductors Tõnu Kaljuste will undoubtedly be a festival highlight. Kaljuste who was last in Drogheda as conductor of the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir's sold out performance, has gained international fame with his diversified repertoire, and has developed close working relationships with contemporary composers such as Giya Kancheli, Arvo Pärt and Veljo Tormis.
Latvian cellist Marta Sudraba, will perform the Protecting Veil with the Ulster Orchestra on Friday 24 October 2008. One of Tavener's most famous works, The Protecting Veil for solo cello and string orchestra was commissioned by the BBC in 1989. Perhaps no other piece of modern classical music has caused such a stir since its debut (in the 1989 Proms) as this work has. 'The Protecting Veil' provides an Ikon in music of the mother of God during her life.The piece is profoundly beautiful. Sudraba, one of the best and brightest musicians of her generation, has worked with Gidon Kremer and plays the cello in his Grammy nominated orchestra Kremerata Baltica.
Irish Chamber Orchestra violinist Ioana Petcu-Colan makes a welcome return to perform Tavener's Dhyana with the Ulster Orchestra.
The Temenos festival also explores Tavener's deep connection with Irish poet WB Yeats with performances of two Yeats' influenced works. Derry mezzo soprano Doreen Curran, RTE's 1998 Young Singer of the Future and a graduate of the National Opera Studio, will open the festival with a performance of Tavener's Supernatural Songs with the Ulster Orchestra. The songs constitute one of the composer's finest achievements.
Saturday 25 October 2008 : One of the world's best choirs Polyphony to perform for the first time in St.Patrick's Dundalk
Whenever you're in the presence of the vocal ensemble Polyphony and their conductor Stephen Layton you begin to understand what authenticity is really about. The Times - March 2008
One of the world's best choirs, Grammy winner Polyphony will perform in St. Patrick's Dundalk on 25 October 2008 as part of John Tavener's Temenos festival. Polyphony conducted by the exceptional musician Stephen Layton will perform Tavener favourites alongside the world premiere of a new Tavener work O My People. Tavener's music finds devoted interpreters in Polyphony who produce some of the most beautiful choral singing you could ever hope to hear.
Dundalk audiences are in for a further treat with Patricia Rozario opening the Dundalk concert with Tavener's To A Child Dancing in the Wind. Patricia Rozario's described by Gramophone as possessing a voice of liquid gold regularly performs and records Tavener's work and her performances are considered as definitive by the composer.
Sunday 26 Oct 2008 : Anonymous 4 make their Irish debut in St.Peter's Church of Ireland
Often haunting and inspirational, these songs about going to heaven frequently will take you there."Lawson Taitte, Dallas Morning News
Billboard chart topping American vocal group Anonymous 4 make their Irish debut in St. Peter's Church of Ireland on 26 October 2008. Renowned for their unearthly vocal blend and virtuosic ensemble singing, the four women of Anonymous 4 combine musical, literary, and historical scholarship with contemporary performance intuition as they create ingeniously designed programs of medieval, contemporary, and American music. Anonymous 4 will perform Irish and English early music works alongside works by John Tavener and Arvo Pärt at the Temenos 08 festival.
The Temenos festival is a major celebration of the music of Sir John Tavener, a leading figure in 20th century contemporary music and best know for his Song for Athene performed at the funeral of Princess Diana in 1997. Sir John Tavener's choral and orchestral works reflect his deeply spiritual outlook and distinctive musical voice.
The weekend festival organized by Louth Contemporary Music Society (LCMS), runs from 24-26 October 2008 in venues across Louth, Ireland. The Festival will provide an exception opportunity to see major performers brought together for the first time in Ireland.
Programme
The Ulster Orchestra with Ioana Petcu Colan (Violin), Doreen Curran (Mezzo) and Marta Sudraba (Cello) Tõnu Kaljuste Conductor
Friday 24 October 2008 at 8 pm at St.Peter’s Church of Ireland, Drogheda.
John Tavener : Supernatural Songs (2003)
John Tavener : Dhyana (2007)
John Tavener: The Protecting Veil (1988)
Polyphony with Marta Sudraba (cello) Stephen Layton Conductor
Patricia Rozario and the Oriel Trio
Saturday 25 Oct 2008 at 8 pm at St.Patrick’s Cathedral, Dundalk
John Tavener :To a Child Dancing in the Wind(1983)
John Tavener :Melina (1994)
John Tavener: Song for Athene (1993)
John Tavener :The Lamb (1982)
John Tavener :Hymn to the Mother of God
John Tavener :O My People. (world premiere) (2008)
John Tavener :Chant (1995) (solo cello)
John Tavener :Mother of God here I stand (from Veil of the Temple) (2004)
John Tavener: Awed by the beauty (from Veil of the Temple)
John Tavener :Syvati (1995)( cello and chorus)
John Tavener: Funeral Ikos (1981)
Anonymous 4 and Rothko 4
Sunday 26 October at 8pm at St.Peter’s Church of Ireland, Drogheda
Prose: Gaude virgo salutata [Dublin Troper]
Song: Edi be thu hevene quene
John Tavener : Out of the night (1996)
John Tavener :As one who has slept (1996)
Valentin Silvestrov: Ikon
Prose: Prophetarum presignata [Dublin Troper]
Song: Alma redemptoris mater
John Tavener: Come and do Your will in me (1997)
Arvo Part : Fratres
Prose: Salve mater misericordie [Dublin Troper]
Song: Hail Mary full of grace
John Tavener : Ikon of Joy/Sorrow (1999)
John Tavener: The Lord’s Prayer (1999)
Hymn: Ave maris stella
Alexander Knaifel : An Autumn Evening
John Tavener : The Bridegroom (1999)
Prose: Miserere miseris [Dublin Troper]
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The Jimmy Cake Live @ Vicar St. Nov. 21st
The Jimmy Cake
With Guest Performances By Chequerboard & Eoin Dillon
Vicar Street
Friday November 21st 2008
Tickets Euro 20 On-Sale Now
{a . hum . .. ... Production For Aiken Promotions]
Doors 7.30pm
Performances From 8.00pm
Aiken Promotions are Proud to Present a Full 15 Piece Band Performance By The Jimmy Cake with Special Guest Performances By Chequerboard & Eoin Dillon.
This show follows their Sell-Out Performance at Dublins' Button Factory in May to mark the Release of their exceptional 3rd Album "Spectre & Crown".
This Extraordinary album has garnered outstanding Reviews since it's Release ( Press Quotations as below . .. ... ). The Music, an epic, heavenly cacophony, has drawn comparisons to Artistes as fulsome as Planxty & Can and is particularly powerful live where the 9 Piece Band are augmented by Brass & Strings.
The band will be joined on the night for 2 Special Guest Performances by 2 of Ireland's most unique and distinctive Artistes, the sublime soundscapes of Electronic Artiste CHEQUERBOARD and Uillean-Pipe Master Eoin Dillon.0 -
Crash Ensemble
Free State:
8pm, Nov 27, O'Reilly Theatre, €20
World View: UK
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Fennesz
Andrew's Lane Theatre, 6 May 2009
€23.50
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I've been there for a few gigs (Matmos, Nurse With Wound, Low, A Place to Bury Strangers) and I like it as a venue. The sound ranges from good to superb (Matmos sounded amazing there) and for me, that's all the matters. There are couches at the back of the venue but it's been all standing every time I've been there. They do have seats (being a theatre) but they never seem to use them for gigs.0
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coolio John, thanks for this. Maybe I'll spin up to catch Fennesz then. I normally fly over to London for other Touch artists when they hold the events at the Garden History Museum, a pretty cool venue and you can lie down on a heated floor with surround sound and a glass of wine, which is nice0
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OK, it doesn't compare with that at all. I've always been tempted by those events but haven't made the trip yet. I love, love, love Touch so I really should.0
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gonna be a sweet buzz0
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Kronos Quartet and Wu Man perform the Irish premieres of Tan Dun's Ghost Opera and Terry Riley's Cusp of Magic
13 July 2009 in An Tain Theatre Dundalk, Louth
€20 from www.centralticketbureau.com
http://www.louthcms.org/?p=963
Louth Contemporary Music Society in association with Louth County Arts Office and Dundalk Arts office present The Kronos Quartet with special guest Wu Man in the Irish premieres of Tan Dun’s Ghost Opera & Terry Riley’s Cusp of Magic in An Tain Theatre Dundalk on 13 July 2009. Both works were specially written for the Kronos Quartet and are available on cd recordings from Nonesuch records.
Kronos has become one of the most celebrated and influential ensembles of our time, performing thousands of concerts worldwide, releasing more than 45 recordings of extraordinary breadth and commissioning more than 600 new works and arrangements for string quartet. Kronos’ work has also garnered numerous awards, including a Grammy for Best Chamber Music Performance (2004) and “Musicians of the Year” (2003) from Musical America.
Tan Dun’s Ghost Opera
Ghost Opera is an acclaimed work for string quartet and pipa (Chinese lute) from Tan Dun (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon) Tan Dun’s Ghost Opera is written for string quartet and pipa (Chinese lute) and features Grammy winning Kronos Quartet with acclaimed Chinese instrumentalist Wu Man. Stephen Pettit of the London Times said Tan Dun is master of effect. Ghost Opera is a five movement theatrical work that mirrors an ancient Chinese funeral custom in which the performer engages in a dialogue between his past and future. Ghost Opera is beguiling and moving. It is a colorful as well as a touching meditation, garnished by sounds of clashing stones and cymbals, the Chinese one-stringed lute and pipa, and small bells. . .wonderfully atmospheric.”
Tan Dun’s (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon) Ghost Opera is a five movement work for string quartet and pipa, with water, metal, stone and paper. Ghost Opera is written for string quartet and pipa with paper, shadow, and water gong basins placed around the performing space. The performers’ movements reflect the back-and-forth between spiritual realms that is characteristic of the ‘ghostopera’ tradition. In composing Ghost Opera, Tan was inspired by childhood memories of the shamanistic “ghost operas” of the Chinese peasant culture. In this tradition, which is over 4,000 years old, humans and spirits of the future, the past, and nature communicate with each other. The work employs elements from the European classical concert tradition, Chinese shadow puppet theatre, visual art installations, folk music theatre and ritual.
Terry Riley’s Cusp of Magic
Terry Riley’s six-movement piece, The Cusp of Magic was described by the Los Angeles Times “with its lullabies and entrancing Chinese songs and sweet disposition, brims with joy.” The Cusp of Magic was commissioned by Kronos on the occasion of their longtime friend and collaborator Riley’s 70th birthday, the piece features the Quartet joined by Wu Man on pipa (a Chinese plucked string instrument, similar to a lute) and vocals, with all musicians also playing a variety of percussion instruments, toys, and noisemakers. Kronos Artistic Director and Violinist David Harrington says, “No composer has been as much a part of Kronos as Terry Riley. We first met at Mills College in 1978, and he has written 23 works for us so far. We knew Terry was turning 70 in 2005, and it seemed like a perfect time to commission another new piece from him. I was sure he would spend the time and take the care needed to bring his knowledge of the pipa up to the point where he could write an amazing work, and over a period of more than a year, he learned about the instrument from Wu Man. “One day I was talking with him and he said he wanted this piece to be ‘magical.’ My granddaughter Emily was an infant at the time. We had little toys and noisemakers around the house, which we would play as I carried her around. Of all the experiences I’ve had, that is the most magical. ‘Why don’t you just come over, and we’ll play some of Emily’s toys?’ I said. So he brought over his computer and recording equipment, and we played all of her toys while she was taking a nap.”
Riley adds, “In this work, the different timbre and resonance of the Chinese pipa and the Western string quartet highlight the crossover regions of cultural reference, so that the Western musical themes might be projected with an Eastern accent and vice-versa. My plan was to make these regions seamless so that the listener is carried between worlds without an awareness of how he/she ends up there.”
The Kronos Quartet with special guest Wu Man are presented by Louth Contemporary Music Society in association with Louth County Arts Office and Dundalk Arts office. The performance of Ghost Opera and the Cusp of Magic is funded by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and financially supported by the Dundalk Arts Office, the Louth Arts Office and Fáilte Ireland.
Tickets €20 on sale from
www.centralticketbureau.com
0818 205 205 UK: 0870 850 2896 International: ++353 1 8721122
An Tain Theatre Box Office Crowe St, Dundalk.
00 353 42 9392919.
Email:
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Excellent! I was wondering if Dundalk had stopped putting on great gigs and no, you guys haven't! I'll definitely make it up for this.0
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Russian composer brings new work to world premiere in Drogheda
Louth Ireland
The haunting music of Russian-born composer Alexander Knaifel is coming to County Louth with the world premiere of his music in a celebration called ‘The Rest is Noise’.
The work of the St Petersburg composer and cellist will be performed at St Peter’s Church of Ireland, Drogheda on the 1st May, as part of the Drogheda Arts Festival.
A number of world renowned musicians will perform Knaifel’s works. The virtuoso violinist Elizabeth Cooney, will perform ‘To EF and the Three calling cards of the Poet’, the first Irish commission from Knaifel, along with cellist Elisabeth Wilson and violist Joachim Roewer.
The evening will also include the first Irish performance by internationally renowned Russian pianist Oleg Malov, who has performed in some of the most important festivals of contemporary music in Europe.
The deeply expressive Irish Callino Quartet will also perform some of Knaifel’s hauntingly beautiful music, including ‘O Heavenly King’.
Organised by Drogheda Borough Council in association with Louth Contemporary Music Society (LCMS) for Drogheda Arts Festival, the performances will be a major musical event for Ireland.
Eamonn Quinn, of LCMS, spoke about the forthcoming event. “We are proud to be able to attract such major contemporary musical events to the area and host such high calibre composers who have chosen to premiere their work in Ireland.”
“Alexander Knaifel is a contemporary of Arvo Part, who’s spiritual music was also brought to the area by the LCMS and featured at performances in Dundalk and Drogheda last year,” said Quinn.
“Knaifel started his career as a cellist and is a former student of Mstislav Rostropovich. He is well-known for both his serious compositions and also his film music, having scored over forty feature films.”
“In the 1970’s he embarked on a quest through his compositions for purity of tone and music of calm, tranquillity and beauty that touch upon mystical questions like the nature of love,” explained Quinn.
“The pieces that will be performed in the ‘Rest is Noise’ recital show just how much he has achieved this quest.”
More information about the performers and the evening is available at www.louthcms.org.
Tickets for ‘The Rest is Noise’ – The Music of Alexander Knaifel are on sale at the door on the night or are available from the Central Ticket Bureau at €15.
www.centralticketbureau.com 0818 295 295
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Russian composer brings new work to world premiere in Drogheda
Louth Ireland
The haunting music of Russian-born composer Alexander Knaifel is coming to County Louth with the world premiere of his music in a celebration called ‘The Rest is Noise’.
The work of the St Petersburg composer and cellist will be performed at St Peter’s Church of Ireland, Drogheda on the 1st May, as part of the Drogheda Arts Festival.
A number of world renowned musicians will perform Knaifel’s works. The virtuoso violinist Elizabeth Cooney, will perform ‘EF and the three visiting cards of the poet’, the first Irish commission from Knaifel, along with cellist Elisabeth Wilson and violist Joachim Roewer.
The evening will also include the first Irish performance by internationally renowned Russian pianist Oleg Malov, who has performed in some of the most important festivals of contemporary music in Europe. Oleg Malov will perform the world premiere of A Mad Tea-party Royal version.
The deeply expressive Irish Callino Quartet will also perform some of Knaifel’s hauntingly beautiful music, including ‘O Heavenly King’ with soprano Patricia Rozario.
Organised by Drogheda Borough Council in association with Louth Contemporary Music Society (LCMS) for Drogheda Arts Festival, the performances will be a major musical event for Ireland.
Eamonn Quinn, of LCMS, spoke about the forthcoming event. “We are proud to be able to attract such major contemporary musical events to the area and host such high calibre composers who have chosen to premiere their work in Ireland.”
“Alexander Knaifel is a contemporary of Arvo Part, who’s spiritual music was also brought to the area by the LCMS and featured at performances in Dundalk and Drogheda last year,” said Quinn.
“Knaifel started his career as a cellist and is a former student of Mstislav Rostropovich. He is well-known for both his serious compositions and also his film music, having scored over forty feature films.”
“In the 1970’s he embarked on a quest through his compositions for purity of tone and music of calm, tranquillity and beauty that touch upon mystical questions like the nature of love,” explained Quinn.
“The pieces that will be performed in the ‘Rest is Noise’ recital show just how much he has achieved this quest.”
The Rest is Noise: the music of Alexander Knaifel is presented by Drogheda Borough Council in association with Louth Contemporary Music Society (LCMS) for Drogheda Arts Festival. The Rest is Noise is funded by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and financially supported by the Drogheda Arts Office, the Louth Arts Office and Fáilte Ireland.
For more information go to www.louthcms.org
Ahead of the performance of his music on Friday 1 May 2009 in St.Peter's Church of Ireland Drogheda Alexander Knaifel will feature- in an Irish Times interview with the esteemed music critic Michael Dervan.
- RTÉ's the Arts Show will also feature the pianist Oleg Malov performing the music of Alexander Knaifel on 29 April 2009 at 8pm on RTÉ Radio 1.
- Don't forget to listen in to the competition on RTÉ Lyric fm's Nova programme 26 April 2009 at 8pm to win tickets and an overnight stay for the performance on Friday 1 May 2009 in Drogheda, Louth
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Hey Folks,
Just a heads up about the Daedelus gig this Saturday at the Twisted Pepper. Please note this is an EARLY SHOW and Daedelus will be performing from 10.30 - 12.
Tickets available from Ticketmaster, Tickets.ie, Sound Cellar & City Discs @ €15, which gives you access to the POGO 4th Birthday party later on.
Also please check out our new website www.choicecuts.ie.
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Alfred Darlington isn’t your average cookie-cutter musician. From how he looks (early Victorian Dandism), to how he makes music, to how he expresses himself and views the world, his is a very individual, a ‘bespoke’ outlook.
Alfred was born in Santa Monica in 1977 to an artist mother and psychologist father. Musical from very early on, as a child he was classically and jazz-trained in a number of instruments, but his interests were broad and varied – less a prodigy than a renaissance boy whose obsessions ranged from Greek legend to the mountains of Wales. As a 15 year old he finally persuaded his parents to take him to the Principality. Whilst in a YMCA in London he flipped the radio dial, found a pirate radio station and taped some UK rave and hardcore. “It was my first ‘Eureka!’ moment in music,” he says.
Back in the US he joined local rock bands, jazz bands and ska bands, which he enjoyed but felt limited by,too. At home he was listening to Warp, Ninja and your harder electronic stuff. He started DJing out the more leftfield side of drum and bass and making his own rudimentary productions. They were meant to be drum & bass but they kept turning out different and from his outsider’s experiments his own style was born. He chose the name Daedelus as he had a childhood obsession with invention, and what was he doing, after all, if not tinkering and fiddling and experimenting like the “gentleman inventors” of old?
In 1999 he started DJing on Dublab.com for his “Entropy Sessions” and began dropping in his own early demo productions. Carlos Nino (of ammoncontact) had the show after him and usually pushed Alfred out the studio as quickly as possible as he was not so into Daedelus’ confrontational DJ style, but when he heard a tranquil Daedelus production he took, in typical Nino style, Daedelus under his considerable wing around the LA scene. Nino placed Daedelus tracks on two influential compilations and then persuaded Plug Research to release his debut album, “Invention” in 2002, Remixers included Madlib, who later took Daedelus’ accordian parts and used them on the Madvillain record, closely followed by his “The Household” EP on Prefuse 73’s Eastern Developments label.
In 2003, he was booked to play a show in San Diego by Brian Crabtree and Peter Siegerstrong and they asked him to test out an early prototype of the Monome box. “It’s a Non-traditional electronic instrument,” Daedelus explains. “Basically it allows for massive improvisation.” Since then Daedelus has continued to use this revolutionary box, bringing much genuine liveness to the sometimes static world of performed electronic/dance music.
In 2003 he did “The Weather” album with Busdriver and Radioinactive and the remix album “Rethinking the Weather” on Mush records (home of cLOUDDEAD, also on Big Dada/Ninja Tune). 2004 saw the release of “Of Snowdonia” on Plug Research, the album with which Daedelus says he first “felt true artistic confidence, finding a true voice. I was finally in the right zone.”
There was certainly no let up in his creativity. Also in 2004 he released the concept album “A Gent Agent” on tiny German label Laboratory Instinct. The 2005 album “Exquisite Corpse” on Mush album featured the likes of TTC, Mike Ladd, MF Doom. Ninja signed Daedelus for UK/Europe (a relationship which has reached its full expression on “Love To Make Music To,” his first album for the label worldwide and put together with the help of their team). In 2006 “Denies the Days Demise” came out, a record showcasing his love of Brazilian music. Last year he released his first live album, “Live At the Low End Theory,” and “The Fairweather Friends EP”. Later this year will see the release of his collaboration with his wife, Laura Darling, as Long Lost!
And while his reputation has grown internationally, his place in the LA scene has also solidified. The musician that many of the hottest names in the city turn to for everything from bass clarinet licks to advice on obscure electronics, Daedelus has worked extensively with Taz from Sa-Ra, the pair of them opening for the likes of DJ Assault, Justice and 2 Live Crew as well as appearing in Erykah Badu’s most recent video.
As for “Love To Make Music To,” Daedelus says that this album is “the imaginary memory of a time that never was! It’s my drug/love record, harking back to that time in the YMCA in London, when I first heard rave…”0 -
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If you Folks are in the Mood for Experimental / Improv - Jazz
Notes productions present the Ellery Eskelin Trio at the NCH May 12th
Vincent Courtois (cello)
Sylvie Courvoisier (piano)
Ellery Eskelin (saxophone)
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