Archive

16 July 2012
Composer Daniel Figgis' new work 'dimmerswitch' is the result of a commission by The Crash Ensemble. He explains the ideas behind the work to Anna Murray ahead of its premiere at the Galway Arts Festival on 19 July.
9 July 2012
Are animal sounds music? Emily Doolittle explores the connections between our own songs and those of animals and birds.
2 July 2012
Flute player Aoife Granville listens to Kevin Crawford's newest album, Carrying the Tune, and finds inspiration, intimacy and virtuosity in 'one of the finest traditional flute/whistle albums I have listened to in recent years'.
25 June 2012
Stephen Graham listens to Roger Doyle's Chalant — Memento Mori, in which answer phone messages from the late-1980s serve as the basis for music of great poignance.
18 June 2012
Anna Murray talks to the director of new student-run contemporary music ensemble Kirkos after Blackout, their final performance of the season.
5 June 2012
A proponent of long exposure photography, Hugh McCabe was invited by The Journal of Music to test out his theories of capturing live music at the recent Gloaming concert in Vicar Street.
28 May 2012
Peter Rosser listens to jazz trio the Bad Plus' take on The Rite of Spring, and wonders what more can be done with Stravinsky's beloved work.
17 May 2012
Laura Sheeran's densely textured songs are never planned and most are written and recorded in just one day. Anna Murray talks to the musician about her intuitive writing process, and the making of her latest, most aggressive album.
8 May 2012
Garrett Sholdice attends a La Monte Young performance at Berlin's MaerzMusik, and reflects on past experiences with Young's magical sustained tones.
1 May 2012
Martin Dowling's and Úna Monaghan's performance of Owenvarragh, a Belfast Circus on The Star Factory, used Cage's Roaratorio template and Ciaran Carson's poetry to recreate the soundscape of Belfast. Robert McMillen describes the experience.