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  • amplify #24 - Crash Ensemble CEO Neva Elliott McGinley and conductor Sineád Hayes
    The last in the current series of CMC's podcast features conversations with Crash Ensemble CEO Neva Elliott McGinley and conductor Sinead Hayes on their current and future work. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson.Show Notes

    Neva Elliott McGinleyCrashlandsProfessor Bad TripFree State 12Free State 13Sinead HayesIrish National Digital Performance Platform blog post

    Music

    Neva Elliott McGinley

    • Donnacha Dennehy - Canons and Overtones (Crash Ensemble), 5:25, 26:34
    • Roger Doyle - UX 2 (Crash Ensemble)
    • Linda Buckley - Seancheann (Caimin Gilmore)
    • Seán Clancy - Eleven Lines of Music Slow Down and Eventually Stop
    • Andrew Hamilton - Music for People Who Like Art (Crash Ensemble)
    • Donnacha Dennehy - As An Nós (Crash Ensemble)
    • Mango X MathMan - Deep Blue featuring Lisa Hannigan and Crash Ensemble

    Sinead Hayes

    • Greg Caffrey - The Chronic Identity Crisis of Pamplemousse (Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble)
    • Raymond Deane - Vagbones (Opera Collective Ireland)
    • Piers Hellawell - Ground Truthing: I (Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble)
    • Greg Caffrey - Garden of Earthly Delights (Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble)

    amplify podcast highlights

    • Amanda Feery - Vulture (Crash Ensemble)
    • Jennifer Walshe - TIME TIME TIME
    • Donnacha Dennehy - The Hunger: Black Potatoes (Crash Ensemble and Iarla O Lionaird)
    • Linda Buckley and Jonathan Nangle - Helen Street from Moog Residency

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    54 min
  • amplify #23 - Judith Ring and Roger Doyle
    Episode 23 of CMC’s podcast features conversations with Judith Ring on her work and dealing with a creative slump during lockdown, and Roger Doyle on his second electronic opera, ‘iGirl’. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson.Show Notes
    • Judith Ring
    • Roger Doyle
    • CMC Salon 2 - Andreea Banciu and Adrian Mantu
    • CMC Salon 3 - Michelle O’Rourke
    • NCFA launches 13-Point Plan
    • Clonmel Junction Arts Festival - I Oedipus by Roger Doyle
    • Marina Carr
    • Scenes from iGIRL
    • Trish McAdam
    Music
    • Roger Doyle - Blood on Their Hands

    Judith Ring

    • My one’s bigger than yours (Kate Ellis, Malachy Robinson)
    • Wildwood: Invisible Scampers (Martin Johnson) [live recording]
    • Mouthpiece (Michelle O’Rourke, Natasha Lohan)
    • Up to my f-holes (Kate Ellis)
    • Accumulation
    • A Breath of Fresh Air (Lina Andonovska)
    • Swelt belly at dawn (Concorde),
    • Solo set at Valentia Island (2018)
    • Swelt belly at dawn

    Roger Doyle

    Roger Doyle on Bandcamp

    • Overture to iGirl
    • I Girl of the Cursed Breasts
    • I Oedipus
    • I Joanne D’arc

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    52 min
  • amplify #22 - Andrew Hamilton
    Episode 22 of CMC’s podcast features an in-depth interview with composer, Andrew Hamilton about his new album 'Joy' on Ergodos Records and highlights of CMC's Salon online event from last week. Show Notes; CMC Salon; Andrew Hamilton's new album 'Joy' released on Ergodos Records.


    • Music
    • Jane O'Leary - A Piacere  (Paul Roe)

      Andrew Hamilton - Joy

      Andrew Hamilton - The Spirit of Art

      Andrew Hamilton - May

      Andrew Hamilton - A

      Andrew Hamilton - Product #1

      Andrew Hamilton - I and I

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      29 min
    • amplify #21 - Ian Wilson, Jonathan Nangle, Deirdre O'Leary and Ultan O'Brien
      Episode 21 of CMC's podcast features conversations with Ian Wilson on taking inspiration from the environment and politics, and his composing career up to this point, Jonathan Nangle and clarinettist Deirdre O'Leary on their recent collaboration for Music Network's Butterfly Sessions, and a profile of CMC Emerging Composer, Ultan O'Brien.Show Notes
      • Jonathan Nangle
      • Deirdre O'Leary
      • Ian Wilson
        • Soundcloud
      • Butterfly Sessions - Jonathan Nangle and Deirdre O'Leary
      • Ultan O'Brien
        • Soundcloud
      • West Cork Chamber Music Festival Composition Competition
      Music

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      • Ultan O'Brien - Na Coillte Istoíche, 0:00, X:XX

      • Jonathan Nangle - Mandala (Deirdre O'Leary)

      • Ian Wilson - Lyric Suite (string quartet #7) (Callino Quartet)

      • Ian Wilson - 1927 for three violins (Wasserfall)

      • Ian Wilson - Pieces of Elsewhere

      • Ian Wilson - A Sonata of Solstices and Equinoxes (Matthew Schellhorn), 23:48, 25:02

      • Ian Wilson - Denier (Fiona Kelly - flute)

      • Ian Wilson - Denier (Fiona Kelly - flute)

      • Ian Wilson - The emptiness of the ever-expanding universe cannot compare to the void where your heart should be (Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble)

      • Ian Wilson - Species Counterpoint (Ties Mellema, Cathal Roche)

      • Ian Wilson - Rise

      • Ian Wilson - Limena (Hugh Tinney, Belgrade Strings)

      • Gráinne Mulvey - Akanos (Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra)

      • Anselm McDonnell - Hiraeth am Nefoedd

      • Deirdre McKay - time shining (Andrew Zolinsky)

      • Quiet Club + CrOw - As the quiet crow flies

      • Greg Caffrey - Environments I (Finghin Collins, Ulster Orchestra)

      • Ultan O'Brien - Fiddle Étude 3

      1 hr
    • Amanda Feery, Lina Andonovska, Scott Mc Laughlin and Áine Mallon - amplify #20
      Episode 20 of CMC's podcast features a conversation with Amanda Feery and Lina Andonovska about their new recording, ‘The Scolds', Scott Mc Laughlin on his current projects and composing during lockdown, and a profile of CMC Emerging Composer Áine Mallon. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson.Show Notes
      • Lina Andonovska
      • Amanda Feery
      • Scott Mc Laughlin
      • Lina Andonovska - A Way A Lone A Last
      • amplify #1 - Amanda Feery
      • amplify #12 - live from New Music Dublin
      • Scold's bridle
      • Composer Lab 2016 - interview with Scott Mc Laughlin
      • Tectonics Festival
      • Garden of Forking Paths
      • United Bible Studies
      • Murmansk
      • CMC Emerging Composer Scheme
      • CMC Emerging Composer Scheme 2020 announcement
      • Áine Mallon
      Music

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      • Scott Mc Laughlin - a particular constellation of openings and closures, 0:02, 36:44
      • Amanda Feery - The Scolds (Lina Andonovska)
      • Scott Mc Laughlin - Repetitions and Variations Transform One Another
      • Scott Mc Laughlin - Abrash (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra)
      • Scott Mc Laughlin - Duet (Heather Roche, Jonathan Sage)
      • Scott Mc Laughlin - Threads of the Social
      • Scott Mc Laughlin - The whole is encountered (Christopher Williams)
      • Áine Mallon - Flotsam (Piatti Quartet), 39:12, 49:24
      • Áine Mallon - Dum Transisset Sabbatum (ORA Singers)

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      51 min
    • amplify #19 - Dave Flynn on his current musical focus and Karen Power on performing over the Internet
      Episode 19 features conversations with Dave Flynn about his current musical focus and the future for Irish composers and musicians after the Covid–19 Pandemic, and Karen Power on performing live with other musicians over the Internet. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson.Show Notes
      • In Focus album (featuring Gráinne Mulvey)
      • Dave Flynn
      • Dave Flynn on Soundcloud
      • Mel Bay
      • Irish Memory Orchestra
      • Niwel Tsumbu
      • Karen Power
      • Karen Power on Soundcloud
      • Earth Day Telematic Festival
      Music

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      • Gráinne Mulvey - Interstices (Ensemble MISE-EN)
      Dave Flynn

      daveflynn.bandcamp.com

      • Dave Flynn - String Quartet No. 3 ‘The Keening' III (ConTempo Quartet), 4:30, 32:34
      • Dave Flynn - Tar Éis an Caoineadh ' (Irina Muresanu)
      • Dave Flynn - Winter Snowflakes
      • Dave Flynn - Elegy for Joan
      • Dave Flynn - The Corncrake
      • Dave Flynn - String Quartet No. 2 ‘The Cranning' - Slip (ConTempo Quartet
      • Dave Flynn - Joy (Niwel Tsumbu, Crash Ensemble) [live recording]
      • Benjamin Dwyer - Etude No. 1 from Twelve Etudes
      • Eric Sweeney - Figurations (John Feeley)
      • Jane O'Leary - Four Pieces for Guitar (John Feeley)
      • Dave Flynn - Paddy Fahey's Reels No. 20 & 6
      • Dave Flynn - The Minimalist Reel (from the Clare Concerto) (Irish Memory Orchestra) [live recording]
      Karen Power
      • veiled border quartet (Thomas Ciufo, John Godfrey, Karen Power, Jane Rigler)

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      49 min
    • Benjamin Dwyer on composing, free improvisation and Beckett / Nick Roth on Diatribe Records
      Episode 18 features conversations with composer and guitarist Benjamin Dwyer on composing, free improvisation and his Beckett-inspired album, ‘What is the Word'; and composer, saxophonist and Diatribe Records co-director Nick Roth on the label. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson.Show Notes
      • Benjamin Dwyer
      • Nick Roth
      • Diatribe Records
      • New Music Dublin Diatribe Stage
      • Blue Shroud Band
      • Barry Guy
      • Maya Homburger
      • What is the Word album
      • Patrick Pye
      Music

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      • Nick Roth - Clarinet Quintet for Klezmer Clarinet, Bass Clarinet and String Quartet
      • Benjamin Dwyer - six residua (after Beckett) i
      • Barry Guy and the Blue Shroud Band , 8:12, 10:24, 12:54, 15:36, 18:53
      • Barry Guy - Five Fizzles, 13:56
      • Benjamin Dwyer - six residua (after Beckett) iv
      • Benjamin Dwyer - what is the word - i. neither, 24:50, 27:03-Benjamin Dwyer - what is the word - interlude i
      • Benjamin Dwyer - what is the word - interlude ii
      • Benjamin Dwyer - five disjecta (after Beckett) iii
      • Nick Roth - Bátá (live recording from New Music Dublin 2020, 35:23, 47:06
      • Nick Roth - A Loved A Long

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      48 min
    • Linda Buckley on the challenge of composing during the Covid-19 Pandemic
      Episode 17 features Glasgow-based Irish composer Linda Buckley in conversation with Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson. The episode includes an introduction to a playlist of pieces by Irish composers, specially selected for the podcast by Linda Buckley.Show Notes
      • Linda Buckley
      • CMC Covid–19 policy initiatives
      • CMC Covid–19 Survey
      • CMC Through the Digital Door series: Trombone / horn; Clarinet; Violin
      Music
      • Linda Buckley - Chiyo
      • Linda Buckley - Torann, 4:02, 36:02
      • Linda Buckley - Revelavit, 10:23, 29:19
      • Linda Buckley - Oscillate
      • Linda Buckley / Jonathan Nangle - Helen Street
      • Seán Clancy - and then you smiled
      • Crevice - Anita’s Altar
      • Linda Buckley - Vespers
      • Maria Somerville - Undoing
      • Slow Moving Clouds - Os
      • Linda Buckley - O Iochtar Mara
      • Linda Buckley - White Light
      • MMOTHS - Verbena
      • Andrew Hamilton - In airde High up
      Linda Buckley’s Playlist

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      • Linda Buckley and Jonathan Nangle - Helen Street
      • Seán Clancy - and then you smiled
      • Linda Buckley - Vespers
      • Maria Somerville - Undoing
      • MMOTHS - Verbena
      • Sorcha de Róiste - Aisling Gheal
      • Crevice - Anita's Altar
      • Andrew Hamilton - In airde / High up

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      38 min
    • Dealing with Covid-19: pianist Isabelle O'Connell, composer Frank Corcoran, and soprano Elizabeth Hilliard
      Episode 16 of CMC's podcast features conversations about dealing with the Covid–19 Pandemic with pianist Isabelle O'Connell, composer Frank Corcoran, and soprano Elizabeth Hilliard. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson.Show Notes
      • Isabelle O'Connell
      • Frank Corcoran
      • Elizabeth Hilliard
      • National Campaign for the Arts
      • Artist Emergency Relief Fund
      • Arts Council COVID–19 Crisis Response Award
      • CMC COVID–19 Composer Survey
      • Finding a Voice
      Music

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      • Amanda Feery - Two Steps on the Water
      • Donnacha Dennehy - Resevoir
      • Linda Buckley - Fridur, 16:38, 20:42
      • Siobhán Cleary - Ondine
      • Frank Corcoran - Symphony No. 2 (opening)
      • Frank Corcoran - Eight Haiku (archive recording)
      • Gráinne Mulvey - Eternity is Now
      • Gráinne Mulvey - The Seafarer
      • David Bremner - Logic Ballad #2: The guarded tourist makes the guide the test
      • Siobhán Cleary - Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoire

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      45 min
    • Composer Matthew Whiteside on the current challenges for composers and musicians in light of the Covid-19 Pandemic, and Úna Monaghan on her collection of pieces 'Aonaracht I'

      Production and editing - Jonathan Grimes, Keith Fennell

      Episode 15 of CMC’s podcast features composer and producer Matthew Whiteside on the current challenges for composers and musicians in light of the Covid–19 Pandemic, and harpist and composer Úna Monaghan on working on ‘Aonaracht I’, a collection of pieces for New Music Dublin. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson.

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      Show Notes
      • Matthew Whiteside
        • www.matthewwhiteside.co.uk/
        • Twitter
      • The Night With
      • Classical Next
      • Scottish New Music Awards
      • Ensemble Offspring concert
      • Úna Monaghan
      • Aonaracht I
      Music

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      • Úna Monaghan - Réalta
      • Matthew Whiteside - Response One
      • David Fennessy - Hirta Rounds
      • Matthew Whiteside - Quartet No. 6
      • Linda Buckley - Oscillate
      • Úna Monaghan - Aonaracht I (rehearsal recording)

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      42 min

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