For this, the final episode from the podcast series, ‘Encounters with Jack B. Yeats,’ The Model, home of the Niland in Sligo, presents the new musical composition, ‘Sarabande 77’ arranged and executed by Seamus Harahan and Owen Kilfeather. The musical composition ‘Sarabande 77’ is an adaptation of the fourth movement Sarabande from the keyboard suite in D minor by Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759).

The two sound clips used in the episode are from the archival radio interview with Jack B. Yeats and the curator, Thomas MacGreevy, recorded in 1947 and broadcast on BBC Third Programme in May 1948. This archival recording is part of the Sound & Moving Image Catalogue in the British Library (T7655R/1 C1) and was sourced with the help of John W. Purser.

‘Sarabande 77’  Harahan & Kilfeather © all rights reserved.

ARTIST BIOS:

Seamus Harahan - artist, filmmaker, musician

Owen Kilfeather is a composer, improvisor and filmmaker from Sligo. Broad range of musics from classical, rock, avant-garde, jazz, metal, choral, noise, gamelan, folk and barbershop to sound art, including decent stretches as house composer/producer for Barcelona-based new-music label Discordian Records and theatre group Tiamat Teatre, as well as crewing for experimental Super 8 collective Gui Collec. Has been involved in the composition, production and/or performance of some forty recordings. Currently writes for/plays with Miss Foreign Affairs and Gulpt, and in post-production on his debut film Organic Shrapnel.

Seamus Harahan:   melodeon, synthesizer, electroacoustic & tape treatments