Friday 2nd : Dundalk / Spirit Store Tickets €13
with boss volletti
George’s Quay, Dundalk, Co. Louth
+353-42-9352697
Saturday 3rd : Limerick (upstairs) in Dolan’s
with boss volletti
Dolans Pub – Dock Road – Limerick
tel – 061-314-483
fax – 061-312-963
Friday 9th : Barfly London
with lowgold + Everything On Black
Nearest Tubes: Camden Town (5 minutes walk)
or Chalk Farm (3 minutes walk)
get tickets
Tuesday 13th : Galway, Roisin Dubh
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Major International Comtemporary Music Festival to be held in Maynooth
Sounds Electric ’05 is a 3-day festival of electro-acoustic and instrumental music taking place at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth from 2-4 December 2005. This will be the biggest festival of electro-acoustic to be held in Ireland
The festival will bring a host of leading international composers and performers to Ireland for the first time ever in a diverse series of concerts, workshops and seminars. A major focus of the festival will be the Csound programming environment. Csound is an incredibly powerful and versatile software synthesis programme that can transform a personal computer into a high-end digital audio workstation, creating an environment in which the worlds of sound-design, acoustic research, digital audio production and computer music composition combine to form the ultimate musical instrument.
World-renowned authority on electronic music, Dr. Richard Boulanger will speak at the festival. Boulanger is Professor of Music Synthesis at the Berklee College of Music (USA), the world’s premier institution for the study of contemporary music, and has recently published the definitive textbook on computer music, entitled: The Csound Book.
Featured guests include the internationally acclaimed electroacoustic composers Rajmil Fischman, Jim Hearon and John ffitch. Rajmil Fischman is a contributor to the Composers’ Desktop Project, conductor of the Keele Philharmonic Society, and Professor of Composition at Keele University. Jim Hearon, composer, jazz performer and programming, and conductor of The California Wind Ensemble has made several recordings of computer music in his own right. Using computer-based instruments he performs with dancers and filmmakers. He currently lectures in Music Technology at the University of Hawaii. Mathematician and computer scientist, John ffitch is Chair of Engineering, in Mathematical Sciences at the University of Bath. He won the Adams Prize for Mathematics and is an active contributor to Csound.
“This year´s Sounds Electric will be the highlights of the new music calendar in Ireland and will have a lasting impact on Irish contemporary music.†(Victor Lazzerini)
For further information contact Fergal Dowling, Sounds Electric Press Officer Email contact@nullear.ie or telephone 01 8575159
Festival Programme
FRIDAY 2nd December
CONCERT I – EAR Ensemble, The EAR Ensemble in concert, playing works for ensemble and live electronics by Fergal Dowling, Victor Lazzarini, David Stalling, Rory Walsh and Elaine Thomazi Freitas, Aula Maxima, NUI Maynooth, 8.00pm, €15, €10 (concession)
SATURDAY 3rd December
Keynote Speech
10:30 R. Boulanger (Berklee College, USA)
Csound Seminars I
2:30 Victor Lazzarini (Ireland), “TclCsound, a Csound Frontend and Tcl/Tk Wrapperâ€
3:00 Simon Schampijer (Germany), “RAViC — Real-Time Audio Visualisation in Csound5â€
3:30 Alan O Cinneide (Ireland), “Introducing PVSPITCH: A Pitch-Tracking Opcode for Csoundâ€
Talk
4:30 Rajmil Fischman (Keele University, UK), “Real and Virtual landscapes in Electroacoustic musicâ€
CONCERT II – CSOUNDBITES
Music selection from submissions in response to an open call for works using the Csound language, Music Department, NUI Maynooth, [time tbc], €8, €5 (concession)
CONCERT III – Dance and Multimedia Improvisation
This exciting encounter between different art forms in response to the use of technology in a performance environment, will bring together international artists working with various media to improvise, in an adventurous crossover between discipline, and will create a unique and stimulating audio-visual experience. Aula Maxima, NUI Maynooth, 8.00pm, €15, €10 (concession)
SUNDAY 4th December
Csound Seminars II
2:30 Steven Yi (USA), “The blue Composition Environmentâ€
3:10 Rory Walsh (Ireland), “ICE: the Integrated Csound Editorâ€
3:40 Adalberto Vidal (Argentina), “‘Strings Formulas´ and their Application in Csound Score Generationâ€
4:10 James Hearon (USA), “Csound in Realtime Performance
using the pvs and fltk Opcodes”
Talk
5:00 John ffitch (University of Bath, UK), “On the Development of Csound 5†CONCERT IV – Selected Works
Second concert of ‘tape´ music selected from open call for works, Music Department, NUI Maynooth, [time tbc], €8, €5 (concession)
CONCERT V – Interactive performance & Live Diffusion
Electronic concert of interactive music by Richard Boulanger and live diffusions by Rajmil Fischman, Aula Maxima, NUI Maynooth,8.00pm, €15, €10 (concession)
Featherhead is a group/ umbrella name for a series of projects / gigs being instigated by composer/ musician Trevor Knight (Auto da Fe, Philip Lynott band, Paul Brady, Mary Coughlan, Juliet Turner, Roger Doyle, Camille O’Sullivan and many more) Since 1990 he has concentrated on writing music for theatre (more than 40 productions) including world-wide success with Catalpa (by Donal O’Kelly)
Featherhead (the band) will be performing at The Sugar Club, Leeson St. on Sun 11th December at 9pm. Tickets Euro 15.
The inspiration for this first concert will be the poetry of Dorothy Parker, which has been set to music by Trevor. The music incorporates many styles, such as vaudeville- rock, circus- jazz, electronic-folk. Dorothy’s acerbic wit will be transformed and hurled into the 21st century. This follows on from a highly successful theatrical show called “Just a little one” based on 3 of Dorothy Parker’s short stories which was directed by Trevor and performed at this year’s Kilkenny Arts Festival and included 4 songs which form the basis of this new show.
Trevor will be joined by Susan Rowland (vocals), Garvan Gallagher (bass), Ken McDonald (drums) and Conor Brady (guitar).
John Walsh Music wins gold and Best-in-Show at the International Davey Awards.
John Walsh Music (JWM) has been awarded Best-in-Show in the commercials category of the International Davey Awards. The honour, which is the highest bestowed by the International Academy of the Visual Arts (IAVA), was awarded for JWM´s composition for the VHI Healthcare television commercial “Guardian Angelâ€. John Walsh Music was also awarded two golden Daveys: one for the above advertisement and one for the Dairygold advertisement entitled “Sunbeamsâ€.
The winners of the 2005 International Davey Awards were announced recently in New York by the IAVA. John Walsh Music was among five companies, chosen from over 2,000 entrants, to receive the award of Best-in-show. Nominees for this award are chosen from the gold winners in each category, JWM´s other entry Dairygold “Sunbeams†was also nominated for this honour in the same category.
The awards were judged and overseen by the IAVA, a member-based organisation of leading professionals from various disciplines within media, advertising and marketing. Among its members are executives from companies such as Yahoo, Sotheby´s Institute of Art, Wired, Adweek, MTV, HBO and Estee Lauder.
John Walsh was delighted to receive these honours and sees them as a great addition to the ICAD award previously won for his work with the Irish Defence Forces advertising campaign.
The Davey Awards is an international creative award focused exclusively on honoring outstanding creative work from the best small firms worldwide.
Entrants included advertising agencies, interactive agencies, production firms, in-house creative professionals, graphic design firms and PR companies from around the world. For more information on the Davey Awards go to www.daveyawards.com
Accompanying CD now available in record shops nationwide and at www.songbirds.tv
A DVD of the programmes will be in the shops on Friday 9th December.
Music produced and recorded by Tom McFarland.
This new music documentary series, coming to RTE television in Ireland in November, presented by folk singer Fil Campbell, is a nostalgic tribute to several of Ireland´s best-loved singers, whose songs formed the musical soundtrack to the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s for many people. The individual programmes will focus on the life and music of The Songbirds of those years. Each programme will feature several of the songs popularised by these singers, performed by Fil Campbell and her special guests, including John Sheahan (The Dubliners), Tommy Sands, Finbar Furey, Sean Keane, Steve Cooney and Laoise Kelly.
The series is being aired on RTE1 on Sunday nights at 7.30pm, starting on Sunday 20th November. There are 6 programmes in total, 5 of which will be shown before Christmas. The order in which they´ll appear is:
Week 1 20th November Ruby Murray
Week 2 27th November Margaret Barry
Week 3 4th December Mary O´Hara
Week 4 11th December Bridie Gallagher
Week 5 18th December Delia Murphy
The 6th programme which is a general overview of what links the singers, the songs they sang and the music business at the time when they were starting off will be shown in the New Year.
These singers were radio stars of the pre-television era in Ireland and as such pre-dated the whole folk revival that followed in the 1960s. They went on to become international stars and played a key role in popularising what were indigenous Folk songs. It is all the more surprising that the more popular recordings of songs from this era were predominantly by women, considering the social climate in the country then.
Additional contributions from musicians, archivists, historians and family members will ensure that this engrossing series will acquaint viewers with the major influence that these artists had on Irish music and popular culture, a legacy which still endures.
For further information about the individual Songbirds and about the programme in general visit www.songbirds.tv .
An Irish tour is planned for early in 2006 and international screenings of the programmes are being discussed.
Adrian Crowley takes time out from the recording of his fourth album for a few gigs around Ireland and London.The new album features Domino records artist, James Yorkston among others and was engineered by Steven Shannon.
Last month saw Crowley heading off on a short headline tour in the UK accompanied by the above mentioned James Yorkston and sharing the bill with the now legendary Fence Collective.
Since last Summer Crowley has toured in the USA with ex- Galaxie 500 duo, Damon and Naomi (where he recorded an hour long radio session at WNYC for WFMU, New Jersey). Crowley also was invited to tour with Domino Records artists, HOOD on their extensive tour of Spain and Portugal.Ryan Adams namechecks Adrian in a recent issue of Rolling Stone as one of his favourite underground songwriters around. Adams showed up at one of Crowley’s recent show in Philadelphia apparantly having been a fan for some time.
Lastly, Adrian has been asked to appear on the next Rough Trade Shops compilation. The theme is ‘Songwriters’ and compiles the legendary London shop’s favourite songwriters of all time. The record due for release in the coming months will also feature tracks by Elliott Smith, PJ Harvey, Tom Waits, Daniel Johnston, Folk Implosion, Catpower…and others. Crowley is the only Irish artist to be featured.
The song chosen is ‘Girl From The Estuary’ which is taken from 2001’s ‘When You Are Here
You Are Family’ recorded by Steve Albini.
Adrian has been invited to open for James Yorkston in London on 18th December at the Luminaire for a special Christmas show.
Upcoming gigs:
Wednesday November 30th – Cyprus Avenue, Cork with Adem
Thursday December 1st – Roisin Dubh, Galway with Adem Monday December 12th -Whelans, Dublin with Jose Gonzalez Sunday December 18th – Luminaire, London with James Yorkston.
Friday 2nd : Dundalk / Spirit Store Tickets €13
Major International Comtemporary Music Festival to be held in Maynooth 
Featherhead is a group/ umbrella name for a series of projects / gigs being instigated by composer/ musician Trevor Knight (Auto da Fe, Philip Lynott band, Paul Brady, Mary Coughlan, Juliet Turner, Roger Doyle, Camille O’Sullivan and many more) Since 1990 he has concentrated on writing music for theatre (more than 40 productions) including world-wide success with Catalpa (by Donal O’Kelly)
John Walsh Music wins gold and Best-in-Show at the International Davey Awards.