amplify

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A podcast from the Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland on new music and composers from Ireland.... more

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December 23, 2024amplify #116 - Ian Wilson in conversation with Tim Rutherford-Johnson live from CMC
CMC celebrated the 60th Birthday of composer, Ian Wilson in CMC on December 4 2024, with an evening of music and discussion.
For the final episode of amplify for 2024, Ian Wilson joins music journalist and contemporary music educator Tim Rutherford-Johnson for a conversation spanning his career and centred around a new essay commissioned by CMC. You'll also hear excerpts of live performances from the evening featuring Lina Andonovska (flute), Ioana Petcu-Colan (Violin) and the composer himself, Ian Wilson (piano).

Show Notes

Tim Rutherford-Johnson

Ian Wilson
CMC Composer Page

Lina Andonovska (Alto flute and piccolo)

Ioana Petcu-Colan (Violin)

You can order a hard copy of the essay here.

Music

All music featured in this episode was recorded live in CMC's Library and Creative Space on December 6 2024.

Terra and Fuoco from I Quattro Elementi for solo violin - Ioana Petcu-Colan (Violin)
Die Zwitscher-Maschine for solo piccolo - Lina Andonovska (Piccolo)
Spilliaert's Beach for alto flute and piano - Lina Andonovska (Alto flute) and Ian Wilson (Piano)

Episode Credits
Recording and editing: Keith Fennell
Introduction: Jonathan Grimes
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37min
December 16, 2024amplify #115 - Caterina Schembri on her new album 'Sea Salt & Turpentine'
Caterina Schembri, whose debut album 'Sea Salt & Turpentine' was released on Ergodos, talks to Jonathan Grimes about her musical background and work as a composer.
Show Notes
Caterina Schembri

Sea Salt & Turpentine
Music
All music taken from Sea Salt & Turpentine (Ergodos)
Caterina Schembri - Sea salt & Turpentine, Michelle O’Rourke (voice), Ficino Ensemble

Caterina Schembri - Soft charcoal over moonstone, Nathan Sherman (viola)

Caterina Schembri - There is a willow, Michelle O’Rourke (voice), Ficino Ensemble

Caterina Schembri - I wake up in the night when I dream in black and white , Michelle O’Rourke (voice), Ficino Ensemble

Caterina Schembri - It was only half as far, Ficino Ensemble
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28min
November 22, 2024amplify #114 - Larissa O'Grady on her new album, Six New Works for Violin
Larissa O'Grady joins CMC's Jonathan Grimes for an explorative discussion about her new release, Six New Works for Violin. on Farpoint Recordings.
Show Notes
Six New Works for Violin (Farpoint Recordings) by Larissa O'Grady
Six New Works For Violin is the debut release by Larissa O'Grady on the Farpoint Recordings label, and features an extraordinary programme of new music composed by a collection of six leading Irish composers including David Bremner, Jenn Kirby, Judith Ring, Anselm McDonnell, Robert Coleman, Fiona Linnane.
This project came into existence as part of the Contemporary Artists Network, established by the Contemporary Music Centre, which pairs composers and performers interested in engaging with contemporary music from Ireland as artistic partners. As part of this Network, in 2022 Larissa O'Grady commissioned six new works for violin and electronics/multimedia by a group of six composers from Ireland, collaborating to explore the possibilities of new sounds, which culminated in a public performance of the commissioned works for violin and multimedia. These commissions were generously supported by Arts Council Ireland.
Featuring a wide range of presentations from spoken word to sensor led playback, live and fixed electronics, microtonal writing conveying the chemical process of burning sugar, and a live field recordist recording and playing back the violin and sounds of a greater spotted woodpecker.
Farpoint Recordings
David Bremner
CMC Composer Page
Robert Coleman
CMC Composer Page
Jenn Kirby
CMC Composer Page
Fiona Linnane
CMC Composer Page
Judith Ring
CMC Composer Page
Anselm McDonnell
CMC Composer Page
Music
All music featured in this episode is available from Farpoint Recordings from the links below.
Salient Memories - David Bremner
Body Fragmented - Jenn Kirby
Swept Through the Floods - Judith Ring
Rusted Sugar - Anselm McDonnell
Capturing Sound - Robert Coleman
Would Be Poetess - Fiona Linnane
Episode Credits
Recording and editing: Jonathan Grimes
Additional Editing: Keith Fennell
Introduction: Evonne Ferguson
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29min
November 12, 2024 amplify #113 - Live from West Cork Chamber Music Festival
A live podcast discussion recorded at the 2024 West Cork Chamber Music Festival. Composers Rhona Clarke and Deirdre Gribbin join Jonathan Grimes to discuss their work on ‘Magdalene Songs’, an ongoing project by pianist Deirdre Brenner, which features their songs along with songs by Deirdre McKay, all based on testimonies from survivors of the Magdalene Laundries.
This discussion took place following a performance the previous evening of the ‘Magdalene Songs’ by mezzo Lotte Betts-Dean and Deirdre Brenner.
From 1922 to 1996, more than 10,000 women and girls were incarcerated in Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries. Operated by four religious orders in 10 locations around the country, these for-profit institutions detained individuals against their will and forced them to work long hours, unpaid, under abusive and humiliating conditions. These institutions committed some of the most serious systematic violations against human rights in Ireland in the 20th century.
This work by is intended to honour those women who were so gravely mistreated by church and state in the Magdalene Laundries by giving voice to their experience.
Show Notes
• https://www.westcorkmusic.ie/chamber-music-festival/
• https://www.rhonaclarke.com/
• https://www.cmc.ie/composers/rhona-clarke
• http://jfmresearch.com/home/preserving-magdalene-history/about-the-magdalene-laundries/
• https://www.deirdregribbin.com/
• https://www.cmc.ie/composers/deirdre-gribbin
• https://www.cmc.ie/composers/deirdre-mckay
• https://www.deirdre-brenner.com/
• https://www.lottebettsdean.com/
Music
All music from Magdalene Songs, performed live at West Cork Chamber Music Festival on 5 July 2024 at St Brendan’s Hall, Bantry by Lotte Betts-Dean (mezzo-soprano) and Deirdre Brenner (piano), and recorded by RTÉ Lyric fm.
• Rhona Clarke - Martina
• Deirdre Gribbin - Bernadette
• Rhona Clarke - Evelyn
• Deirdre McKay - Litany to the Magdalene Dead
Recording and editing: Keith Fennell
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29min
October 11, 2024amplify #112 - Composer Lab 2024
This week’s podcast features conversations recorded during the workshop of Composer Lab, a professional development initiative from CMC and the National Symphony Orchestra aimed at composers who have had limited opportunities to write for symphony orchestra. Jonathan Grimes speaks to the participating composers Amelia Clarkson, Barry O’Halpin, Finola Merivale, and Yue Song, as well as Composer Lab mentor David Fennessy and workshop conductor Gavin Maloney. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson.
Show Notes
Composer Lab public workshop
Amelia Clarkson
CMC Composer Page
Barry O’Halpin
CMC Composer Page
Yue Song
CMC Composer Page
Pastures at Malahide
Finola Merivale
CMC Composer Page
Music
All music recorded during the Composer Lab workshop on 16 September 2024 by the National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Gavin Maloney
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27min
September 27, 2024amplify #111 - Rhona Clarke and Eric Skytterholm Egan at the ISCM World New Music Days 2024
CMC’s podcast on artists active in New Music in Ireland returns with interviews recorded with two of the featured Irish composers at this year’s ISCM World New Music Days in the Faroe Islands. Recorded in June, the episode features conversations with composers Eric Skytterholm Egan and Rhona Clarke. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson.
Show Notes
ISCM World New Music Days 2024
ISCM
Eric Skytterholm Egan
CMC Composer Page
Rhona Clarke
CMC Composer Page
Music
Eric Skytterholm Egan - in some or other Oasis (2014 rev. 2023) (Lapland Chamber Orchestra), live performance at Tórshavn Music School, Tórshavn, Faroe Island, 24 June 2024. Video of concert available here.
Rhona Clarke - O Vis Aeternitatis (2020) (ARS NOVA Copenhagen, conductor Graham Ross), live performance at The Nordic House in Tórshavn, 29 June 2024. Video of concert available here.
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18min
July 19, 2024amplify #110 - TERRAIN
An episode featuring a live panel discussion from Northern Ireland's newest contemporary music festival, TERRAIN in the Accidental Theatre, Belfast featuring Aisling Agnew, Lina Andanovska and Ian Wilson. Presented by Evonne Ferguson.
Show Notes
Aisling Agnew

Lina Andanovska
Ian Wilson
CMC Composer page
Music
All music featured in this episode was performed live at TERRAIN Music Festival on 18 May 2024
Improvisation 1 - Lina Andonovska (contrabass flute & flute), David Lyttle (Drums) & Cathal Roche (alto sax)

A Winter Sketchbook - Jane O'Leary - Aisling Agnew (flute) & Petcu-Colan (violin)

Improvisation 2 - Lina Andonovska (contrabass flute & flute), David Lyttle (drums) & Cathal Roche (alto sax)

'Vigour, Rigour, Jigger' - Greg Caffrey - David McCann (cello)
Episode Credits
Chief Sound Engineer: Martin Price
Sound Technician: Peter Cunningham
Podcast Recording: Emma Bainbridge
Editing: Keith Fennell
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23min
July 03, 2024amplify #109 - Topographies mini festival of Experimental music in Berlin
An episode featuring a panel discussion from the Topographies mini festival of Experimental music in Berlin along with contributions from Shane Latimer and Izumi Kimura. Presented by Evonne Ferguson.
Show Notes
Topographies
Shane Latimer
Residuum

Izumi Kimura

Francis Heery

Elliot Murphy

Ellen King
Music
Shane Latimer - Ten Minutes in the Tumble Dryer

Shane Latimer, Izumi Kimura, Francis Heery, Ute Wasserman - live performance at Soweiso, Berlin, 23 May 2024

Ellen King - in situ, live recording from PAS, Berlin, 25 May 2024

Francis Heery - not knowing what brambles are, live recording from PAS, Berlin, 25 May 2024
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26min
June 14, 2024amplify #108 - Darragh Morgan and Mary Dullea on Gerald Barry's violin and piano music
Jonathan Grimes talks to violinist Darragh Morgan and pianist Mary Dullea about recording and performing Gerald Barry’s music. The conversation was recorded at the 2024 New Music Dublin Festival, and also features extracts from their 2022 album of the composer’s works ‘In the Asylum’.
Show Notes
Darragh Morgan
Mary Dullea
Gerald Barry
CMC Composer Page
Gerald Barry in Focus at New Music Dublin 2024
Music
All music taken from the album In the Asylum, Mode Records
Baroness von Ritkart: 1 - Clever, noble, but not talented, (Darragh Morgan, violin and Mary Dullea, piano)
Triorchic Blues, Fidelio Trio
Midday, (Darragh Morgan, violin and Mary Dullea, piano)
1998, (Darragh Morgan, violin and Mary Dullea, piano)
Le Vieux Sourd, (Mary Dullea, piano)
Recorded, presented and produced by Jonathan Grimes.
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14min
May 31, 2024amplify #107 - Linda Buckley on her new work, Tuile agus Trá for Iarla Ó Lionáird and the National Symphony Orchestra
Back in April, as New Music Dublin 2024 was approaching, Evonne Ferguson sat down for a chat with Linda Buckley and Iarla Ó Lionáird to discuss Tuile agus Trá, a new work for the National Symphony Orchestra composed by Linda and dedicated to the memory of her mother, Mary Buckley.

Show Notes
Linda Buckley
CMC Composer page

Iarla Ó Lionáird

Doireann Ní Ghríofa

National Symphony Orchestra

New Music Dublin

National Concert Hall

The Creative Space @ CMC
Tuile agus Trá premiered on the 26 April in the National Concert Hall as part of New Music Dublin 2024. It was broadcast live on RTÉ lyric fm for a special episode of RTÉ lyric Live co-presented by Paul Herriott and John Harris. You can listen to the full broadcast here.
Tuile agus Trá was commissioned by the National Symphony Orchestra and New Music Dublin.

Episode Credits

Presented by Evonne Ferguson
Recorded and edited by Keith Fennell
Show NotesEpisode Credits
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21min

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