MUSIC CURRENT II
Concert of interactive group works devised during today's workshop. Also works by Karlheinz Essl.

Project Arts Centre, 22 Oct 2010, 8.00 pm

Julie Maisel (flute), Adrian Mantu (cello) Roger Moffatt (percussion), Karlheinz Essl (live electronics), plus Sebastian Adams, David Bremner, Rory Caraher, Jack Glacken, Andrew McGovern and Suzanne Walsh

• Devised work I (computer-controlled mixed ensemble)
• Karlheinz Essl, el-emen’ (percussion and live electronics)
• Devised work II (computer-controlled mixed ensemble)
• Karlheinz Essl, more or less (four computers, harpsichord, percussion, flute, cello)

Concert Programme (.pdf)

Photo: Mihai Cucu

REAL-TIME COMPOSITION WORKSHOP
Supervised by Karlheinz Essl, composers, improvisers and computer musicians collaborate to devise a programme for this evening's concert.

Project Arts Centre, 22 Oct 2011, 11.00am–5.00pm

Workshop participants: Sebastian Adams, David Bremner, Rory Caraher, Jack Glacken, Andrew McGovern and Suzanne Walsh

Photo: Mihai Cucu

MUSIC CURRENT I
Karlheinz Essl Portrait Concert

Project Arts Centre, 21 Oct 2011, 8.00 pm

Julie Maisel (flute), Annette Cleary (cello), Maeve O’Hara, (percussion), Karlheinz Essl, Fergal Dowling (live electronics), Michael Quinn (conductor)

• Karlheinz Essl, Sequitur I (flute and live electronics)
• Karlheinz Essl, Improvisation I (m@ze°2)
• Karlheinz Essl, Sequitur IV (cello and live electronics)
• Karlheinz Essl, Improvisation II (m@ze°2)
• Karlheinz Essl, Sequitur XI (vibraphone and live electronics)
• Karlheinz Essl, Improvisation III (m@ze°2)
• Karlheinz Essl, blurred (flute, cello, percussion and live electronics

Concert Programme (.pdf)

SKETCH!
Music for actor, viola, harpsichord and computer

Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, 12 April 2011

Dublin Sound Lab join forces with violist Garth Knox and actor Bryan Quinn in a programme of real-time interactive electronics. Garth Knox (viola), Michael Quinn (harpsichord), Bryan Quinn (voice), Fergal Dowling (electronics).

• Karlheinz Essl, More or Less (for computer-controlled soloists)
• Jean-Claude Risset, Pentacle (harpsichord/electronics)
• Luca Francesconi, Animus II (viola and electronics)
• Fergal Dowling, Sketch!, (based on Samuel Beckett's 'Worstward Ho', for actor, viola, harpsichord and computer)

Supported by Culture Ireland and the Centre Culturel Irlandais

Concert Programme (.pdf)

OCTOPHONIES II
Music for violin and 8 loudspeakers

Project Arts Centre, 23 Oct 2010, 8.00 pm
Marja Gaynor (violin), Fergal Dowling (electronics)

Finnish violinist Marja Gaynor performs two fascinating computer-mediated works by Irish composers Ann Cleare and Scott McLaughlin, together with Barry Truax's astonishing electronic masterpiece 'Riverrun', inspired by James Joyce's 'Finnegan's Wake'. 

• Ann Cleare, IRK (violin and live electronics)
  
• Scott McLaughlin, Primes (violin and live electronics)
  
• Barry Truax, Riverrun (8-track tape)
  
• Roderik de Man, Spazio Piccolo (violin solo)
  
• Karen Tanaka, Wave Mechanics II (violin and tape)

Concert Programme (.pdf)

OCTOPHONIES I
Music for harpsichord, soprano and 8 loudspeakers

Project Arts Centre, 22 Oct 2010, 8.00 pm

In the opening concert Michael Quinn tackles two of the most demanding works in the contemporary harpsichord repertoire: Kaija Saariaho's mystical 'Jardin Secret II', and Jean-Claude Risset's stunning 'Pentacle' (both Irish premieres). Soprano Deirdre Moynihan delivers two virtuosic works for voice and tape by young Irish composers Ed Bennett and Judith Ring, contextualised by Jonathan Harvey's seminal electronic tour-de-force, 'Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco', based on recordings of the human voice.

Michael Quinn, harpsichord; Deirdre Moynihan, soprano; Fergal Dowling, electronics

• Kaija Saariaho, Jardin Secret II (harpsichord and live electronics)
  
• Jean-Claude Risset, Pentacle (harpsichord and 8-channel tape)
  
• Ed Bennett, I Need This (soprano and tape)
  
• Jonathan Harvey, Mortuos Plango Vivos Voco (8-track tape)
  
• Judith Ring, Mouthpiece (soprano and tape)

The Late Harpsichord
New works for harpsichord and electronics

St Werburgh's Church, Dublin, 28 November 2009, 8.00 pm

Dublin Sound Lab is interested in developing the repertoire for our core ensemble and in June 2009 we invited composers to send us works for any combination of harpsichord, computer, and fixed media, of any duration and without restrictions as to age or nationality of the composer. From the submissions and proposals we received from Ireland, Britain, and from throughout Europe and America and we shortlisted works by Julio d'Escrivan, Nick Collins and Ailis Ni Riain.

• Ailis Ni Riain 2 Steep 4 Sheep harpsichord and tape
• Nick Collins Suite with Interruptions harpsichord and computer
• Julio d'Escrivan reGoldberg harpsichord and computer
• J.S. Bach Movements from Goldberg Variations harpsichord solo
• Fergal Dowling Stops harpsichord and computer

Harpsichord – Michael Quinn
Computer/electronics – Fergal Dowling
Concert Programme (.pdf)

Garth Knox, solo
Contemporary music for viola and electronics

St Werburgh's Church, Dublin, 26 November 2009, 8.00 pm

Dublin Sound Lab is delighted to present this special performance of contemporary French and Italian music for viola and electronics.

• Gérard Grisey Prologue for viola and electronics
  
• Salvatore Sciarrino 3 notturni brillanti for solo viola
  
• Kaija Saariaho Vent Nocturne for viola and electronics
  
• Garth Knox Viola Spaces for solo viola
  
• Luca Francesconi Animus II for viola and electronics

Viola – Garth Knox
Electronics – Fergal Dowling
Concert Programme (.pdf)

Garth Knox, talk on contemporary viola repertoire

Contemporary Music Centre, Fishamble Street, Dublin, 26 November 2009, 5.30 pm

Garth Knox will lead a discussion on aspects of contemporary viola writing, with special reference to the programme for this evening's concert

http://blog.cmc.ie/garth-knox-talk-in-cmc-library

Stops
New works for organ, computer, double bass and violin

St Teresa's Church, Clarendon Street, 21 November 2008, 8.00pm

• Karlheinz Essl, Fontana Mixer (2004) generative sound environment after John Cage
• Karlheinz Essl, More or Less (1999-2007) computer-controlled soloists
• Peter Ablinger, Violine Und Rauschen ("Veronica") (1995/96) violin and CD
• Mauricio Kagel, Raga (from Rrrrr......, 1981) organ
• Mauricio Kagel, Rossignols (from Rrrrr......, 1981) organ
• Karen Power, Cows, Coffee, Birds, Bees and a New Room (2007), double bass and CD
• Peter Ablinger, Orgel Und Weltempfänger (1999) organ and FM-receiver
• Wim de Ruiter, Whim (1997) violin and organ
• Karlheinz Essl, Sequitur-III (2008) violin and computer
• Fergal Dowling, Stops (2008) organ, violin, double bass, and computer

Michael Quinn – organ
Fergal Dowling – computer
Marja Gaynor – violin
Mercedes Carroll – double bass
Concert Programme (.pdf)