Where are we now? Episode 5 premieres Thu 26 Aug at 9pm. After the launch, listen wherever you get your podcasts!

Thirtythree-45 and Droichead Arts Centre

In association with Drogheda Arts Festival

Invited artists / sound-makers are asked to make a work for radio, based on the theme ‘Where are we now?

The title is inspired by the David Bowie song of the same name. The song is reflective and nostalgic, a case of man looking back on a life that once was, when the future is uncertain.

As the Covid pandemic has thrown all our lives into flux the question ‘Where are we now?’ seems even more poignant. In these unprecedented times, we have all found time to reflect on the now and more importantly on the ‘what can be’.

Where are we now? is a question? To be interpreted through sound for radio.

Each work will be at least 30 minutes long and can range from sound collage, voice, ambient, avant-garde, field recordings, electro acoustic or a hybrid of different forms.

The pieces will be a deep listening experience, encouraging listeners to expand their conception of narrative and musicality.

Listening details:

This stream can be listened directly from thirtythree-45's website; https://thirtythree-45.com/, Droichead Arts Centre’s Podcast Channel: https://anchor.fm/droichead-arts-centre, or any internet radio, phone, pc or tablet.

Hilary Mullaney

Enough(2021)

fixed media composition, 30:00

This work was made using fields recordings, DIY instruments, voice and instrumentation. Moments captured, manipulated and edited into a series of sound images. Composed during summer 2021, a commission for thirty three 45 / Drogheda Arts Festival.

Hilary Mullaney is an Irish composer and sound artist. She has been active in the field of electroacoustic music for over 20 years, with works performed and broadcast both nationally and internationally, most recently forAudiosphere. Sound Experimentation 1980-2020, the first large-scale contemporary art exhibition of sound works, with no images or objects, at Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid. Place informs her practice, using field recordings, improvisation and everyday experiences to explore memories and associations through sound. Psychogeography merges with an interest in psychoanalysis, and from there the work unfolds and reveals itself through sound and listening. She has lectured in Dundalk Institute of Technology since 2004, where she teaches and supervises research in electroacoustic music and composition to both postgraduate and undergraduate students. Between lockdowns she escaped from Dublin, and is now based in rural North West of Ireland.

Niall Gregory

Where are we now ?

Waiting with bated breath to return to what we once considered normal. Strange music for strange times. Life goes on regardless.

Niall Gregory is a Drogheda based musician/educator . Currently performing and recording music from a wide range of musical genres from Grind, Doom, electronic and Drone/ Ambient.