amplify

A performance from composer, fiddle and viola player Ultan O’Brien, recorded at IMRO on 25 April during CMC’s New Music Dublin Exchange - a programme which took place during the New Music Dublin festival, to which representatives of some of the most significant international contemporary music festivals, venues, programmers, promoters and broadcasters were invited.​

Show Notes

• Ultan O’Brien
• New Music Dublin Exchange

Recorded and edited by Keith Fennell.

CMC wishes to thank Culture Ireland for its funding of New Music Dublin Exchange, and IMRO for their support.

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A special live episode of amplify which was recorded at this year's Music Current Festival panel discussion presented in partnership with the Contemporary Music Centre. The panel was chaired by CMC's Director, Evonne Ferguson.

Show Notes

"Here, four composers, academics, researchers and media artists share insights into their personal practices, working methods, compositional techniques, rationale, and the strategies they use to approach compositional problems, and how technology might inform future music developments."

Source: Music Current Festival - Future Music

Panelists:
João Pedro Oliveira (PRT), composer

Amanda Feery (IRL), composer

Lara Gallagher (IRL), composer

Eryk Salvaggio (USA), researcher, new media artist

Music

In order of appearance in the episode:

Daniel McDermott Bezier Lines (2024) - performed by Dublin Sound Lab

Amanda Feery Hireth (2024) - performed by The Black Page Orchestra

Lara Gallagher Leap of Foals (2024) - performed by lovemusic collective

John McLachlan Qualia I (2024) - performed by Dublin Sound Lab

Fergal Dowling Total Harmonic Distortion (2024) - performed by Dublin Sound Lab

All music featured in this episode was recorded live at Music Current 2024 at the Project Arts Centre.

Episode credits

Editing: Keith Fennell
Recording: Garrett Sholdice

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In this episode, we hear from Anselm McDonnell about his new release, Kraina, an album drawing on the themes of home and displacement. 

Show Notes

Anselm McDonnell (CMC Composer Page)

This interview was recorded on location by Evonne Ferguson at Queen's University, Belfast on 22 March 2024. It was recorded before the launch of Kraina which took place on the same date in the Harty Room in Queen's University, presented by CMC in partnership with Moving On Music, Belfast. The launch featured a performance by Cahal Masterson (piano) and Rebecca Murphy (soprano) of works from this new release.

Music

All music featured is taken from the album, Kraina available to purchase on Bandcamp

In order of appearance in the episode:

Anselm McDonnell - Kraina I. Jeżeli Porcelana

Cahal Masterson - piano
Rebecca Murphy - soprano
Jonny McGuinness - recording engineer

Anselm McDonnell - Kraina II. The House on the Interface

Cahal Masterson - piano
Rebecca Murphy - soprano
Jonny McGuinness - recording engineer

Anselm McDonnell - Her Name is Sorrow

Dermot Dunne - accordion
Joshua Ellicott - tenor
Laura Sinnerton - viola
Richard Brown - recording engineer

Episode Credits

Editing: Keith Fennell
Recording: Evonne Ferguson and Keith Fennell

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• We Only Want the Earth
  • Listen to episode 1
  • Article about the series on RTÉ Culture
• Robert Coleman and Larissa O’Grady - Capturing Sound
• Judith Ring
  • CMC Composer Page
• Larissa O’Grady

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CMC travelled to Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival back in November. Whilst there we had the great pleasure of interviewing some of Ireland's finest exponents of new music who were performing at the festival. This episode features interviews with Kirkos, Stone Drawn Circles, Jennifer Walshe and Andreas Borregaard

Show Notes

Music

Thank you to the composers, performers, BBC and Music Network for permission to use the recordings featured in this episode. In order of appearance in the episode:

• Excerpts from Kirkos - Beginner's Guide to Slow Travel (2023) performed and composed collaboratively by Sebastian Adams, Robert Coleman, Yseult Cooper Stockdale, Jane Hackett, Hannah Miller and Joan Somers Donnelly. Recorded live on 21 November at HCMF 2023 by Jonathan Grimes.
• Excerpt from Karen Power - can you hear me now???? (2019) performed by Stone Drawn Circles. Recorded live on 21 November 2023 at HCMF 2023 by the BBC.
• Excerpt form Úna Monaghan - In Formation (2023) performed by Stone Drawn Circles. Recorded live on 21 November 2023 at HCMF 2023 by the BBC.
• Excerpt from Jennifer Walshe - Oscailt (2023) performed by Jennifer Walshe (vocalist), Elizabeth Hilliard (soprano), Nick Roth (saxophone) and Panos Ghikas (viola/electronics). Recorded live at Riverbank Arts Centre on 20 September 2023 by The Rise Studio.

Interviews recorded on location at HCMF 2023 by Evonne Ferguson and Jonathan Grimes.Editing: Keith Fennell and Jonathan Grimes.

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Recorded during the summer, Evonne Ferguson attended RAMP, the Rathmullan Music Project in Donegal for it's inaugural year. Whilst there Evonne spoke with project directors, Rob Casey and Peter Doherty about the inspiration for launching the project as well as speaking to some of the performers and composers taking part in the project including Una Lee, Xenia Pestova Bennett and Rhodri Davis.

Show Notes

• RAMP is an initiative run by the Northern Lights Project in association with Earagail Arts Festival.

Music

Performers and composers in order of appearance on the episode:

• Rob Casey (piano), Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh (viola), David Lacey (percussion),Aonghus McEvoy (guitar)
• Xenia Pestova Bennett (piano)
• Una Lee (voice) & Aonghus McEvoy (guitar)
• Una Lee & Landless (voices)
• Rhodri Davies (harp)

All music featured in this episode of the podcast was recorded live at RAMP 2023.

Recording: Evonne Ferguson
Editing: Keith Fennell

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Conductor Sinead Hayes joins Jonathan Grimes to discuss CMC and the National Symphony Orchestra’s recent Composer Lab workshop. Composer Lab is professional development initiative which aims to provide a creative and open environment for composers wishing to deepen their understanding of writing for the forces of a full symphony orchestra.

Show Notes

• Composer Lab
• Composer Lab premiere performance and live broadcast
• Daragh Black Hynes
• Geoff Hannan
• Tom Lane
• Amy Rooney
• Sinead Hayes
• Hard Rain Soloist Ensemble 2023/24 Season
• NSO & CMC Composer Lab workshop 2023 - musings from the stalls

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