I was born in Dublin in 1977.
Studied in Ireland, England and the Netherlands.
My main teachers have been Kevin Volans, Anthony Gilbert and Louis Andriessen.
Recently I have worked on new pieces with Ensemble Klang, the Ives Ensemble, Orkest De Volharding, Natasha Lohan, the Knights, the National Chamber Choir of Ireland and Ensemble Ascolta.
New works are planned for Crash Ensemble, the Irish Chamber Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, Theatre of Voices and a one hour opera for the Ives Ensemble.
Dusted Magazine article on the music:
www.dustedmagazine.com/features/749
Working only with Viveka Eriksson voice on Forecast Proof, I saved a lot of energy by not singing. In two takes, she can nail down an abstract melody and almost nothing will sound out of place !
Because I went for a straight forward approach with Viveka, everything vocal on Forecast Proof sounds more cool, emotionally urgent and less stretched by the intellect.
1) Audiomachie (6:21) 2) Une ombre vacille en serpentin virevoltant (6:58) 3) Bruissement de griserie (9:55) 4) Propensity to go forward (7:36) 5) Drawing of a Back with a Mouth (4:24) 6) Second Life (3:50)
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- The project was about trying to explore different poetry styles, always with different instrumentations and musical structures because I don't want to repeat a single one - An album not directly linked to the four previous ones, but with the impossible to avoid come back to fetish themes - Second Life is about the technological phenomena, but I got better things to do with my life than spending it on the clone of a capitalist society - We might as well hope for a real bankrupcy for all of us, it would be worth it to kill capitalism
Most of you will just want to listen to the music made available. Well, here it is with great streaming (right after MA VIE est ICI which is a reminder of my previous album conclusion) http://www.freakywaves.com
Ah Big Anders. I see you've got a gig in Corkus (I'm half Cork you know, I keep it quiet). I like your New York piece, it made sad and then happy in the second part. We think we might come to Berlin from mid-June to mid-July. Are you going to be around for some serious craic?
your brother has the right idea! ah its not so bad once ye get over the whole cork complex! will be in paris until the end of june. The Bennett is comin over next week for a concert I think.
Great to come across your music on here! I really like it, particularly the excerpts from musicforpeoplewholosepeople and MAP. Hopefully I'll get the chance to hear your stuff live some time. Take care. :-) Barnaby
