Mixed Circuits, an ambitious new double CD by David Bremner will be launched at the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin as part of the Sundays @ Noon series, at 12pm on Sunday December 11th, 2022. The launch will consist of concert performances by Andreea Banciu (viola), Elizabeth Hilliard (soprano), Paul Roe (clarinet) and Izumi Kimura (piano) of some of the music from the album. This launch programme presents the world premiere of the most recent work on the album, Possible Vignettes, and an excerpt from Bremner’s 2014 song-cycle Logical Fallacies for soprano and viola on texts by Irish poet Billy Mills. All are welcome to come along.

On December 11th, 2022, David Bremner’s portrait album Mixed Circuits will be released by Farpoint Recordings. Each of the four works on this double-album is a cycle of several short movements or panels, investigating a single impulse: the exploration of a minimal, drone aesthetic through an atonal harmonic fabric of continuous gradual unfolding. Gesture and rhetoric are avoided in favour of a flickering presence, with imperceptible transitions.

Overlaid like quadrats on this elusive, amorphous organic material are clear-cut song forms; they are overlaid independently of the material, so that material and form question each other, sound each other out.

Conceived in partnership with Farpoint Recordings as an intensive exploration of cyclic form, and recorded and mixed/mastered by Farpoint’s David Stalling, the release features various chamber music combinations of four stellar performers: Andreea Banciu (viola), Elizabeth Hilliard (soprano), Paul Roe (clarinet) and Izumi Kimura (piano). Included are two song-cycles, with texts by Bremner’s long-standing collaborator Billy Mills, and Rosmarie Waldrop. An in-depth conversation between Mills and Bremner about the background to Logical Fallacies is included in the liner notes. The composition, recording and publishing process were supported by funding from the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.

Mixed Circuits is available in CD and digital formats. The double CD version comes as a limited edition 6 panel fold-out eco pack sleeve and a 36 page booklet with the aformentioned extensive liner notes. It is published as a first edition of 500 copies. Copies of the album will be available 11th December from www.farpointrecordings.com