BIFURCATIONS

Concert of New Electronic Chamber Music

5 December 2016

A programme of recent works for soloist, duo and electronics by Dublin Sound Lab composers Gráinne Mulvey, Ann Cleare, Fergal Dowling, and Scott McLaughlin and Donal Sarsfield.

These five short pieces take diverse approaches to that most current of forms – electronic chamber music. Exploring every combination of these small forces – soloist and fixed media, interactive duo, ‘tape’, surround sound – these five seemingly disparate works manage to share and combine an effortless playfulness, with a sure-footed technique, and a visceral outpouring of sound.

 The concert will be followed by a reception where we will be announcing news of the forthcoming Music Current 2017 Festival.

PROGRAMME

Donal Sarsfield, The Luc Ferrari Piece (fixed media)

Scott McLaughlin, Bifurcations in a Continuous System (for MIDI keyboard and computer)

Gráinne Mulvey, Perihelion-Aphelion (for violin and fixed media)

Fergal Dowling, Stops (interactive work for violin, harpsichord and computer)

Ann Cleare, I am not a clock maker either (version for harpsichord and live electronics)

Larissa O’Grady, violin

Michael Quinn, harpsichord

Fergal Dowling, computer

Alexis Nealon, sound

Where we are at musically these days in terms of technology (Liam Cagney, Musical Criticism.com)

The finest electroacoustic ensemble on the island (Bernard Clarke, Lyric FM)

DUBLIN SOUND LAB is a contemporary music ensemble specialising in electronic and computer-mediated concert performance. As well as presenting established works, we initiate new repertoire and use computer-based techniques to explore new relationships between compositional process, performance practice and audience engagement. DUBLIN SOUND LAB has worked with many leading Irish and international composers, performing works by: Gérard Grisey, Salvatore Sciarrino, Kaija Saariaho, Luca Francesconi, Karlheinz Essl, Peter Ablinger, Mauricio Kagel, Wim de Ruiter, Barry Truax, Roderik de Man, Karen Tanaka, Jean-Claude Risset, Gerald Barry, Jonathan Harvey, and Garth Knox and others.