The Quiet Club are Mick O'Shea and Danny Mc Carthy
Guests have included Viv Corringham,James Oijea, Christian Carley, Harry Moore, Simone Barbara,Giordai O Laoghaire,John Godfrey, SAFE,Mark Wastell,Mel Mercier,Micheal O'Suilleabhain, Niall Vallely , David Toop,Anthony Kelly,David Stalling,Seamus O'Donnell.
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News and Upcoming Shows+++++Sonic Vigil 4 takes place this week July 11th see listing above for the details of the huge international cast+++++++Just finished a four hour non stop sound performance Sound Cast (4 4 4) in the Crawford Gallery working with Mick O'Shea and the Kelly/Stalling duo it seemed to work very well with an audience of over 700 people as per the Crawford Gallery. A CD of the event will be released later in the year.This will be followed a week later 11th July with "Sonic Vigil" in St Finn Barres withan all new international cast.(see listings) We are organising this event in conjunction with Gruenrekorder and Sound Eye Festival and Avant Festival+++++++++++++STOP PRESS GR8 review of Tesla and LISTEN hEAR in the current issue of Journal Of Music (see above for copy)+++ .++++++Just showed some pieces in the Black Sun Mail Art exhibition that Vicky Langan organised in the Granary Theatre alongside a great night of sound and music.I included some stuff from Irelands First Mail Art exhibition which I organised in Triskel over twenty years ago as the saying goes "Mail Art Lives"+++On Sat 9TH May I presented a workshop in The National Sculpture Factory called Sounds Like Listening based loosely around the module of the same name that I do In the Music Dept UCC .+++We performed again in The Guest House alongside Mathias Foprge and John Godfrey and Jesse Ronneau on the 25TH March then off to Dublin for the launch of LISTEN hEAR (Book and CD) and TESLA CD in The Gothe Institute .In July there is a new Sonic Vigil (in St Finbarrs Cathedral) and a new festival of Field Recordings of which more later++++++++We went to Dublin for the EAR Plugged Festival opening event at The Lab on Feb26th which turned out to be a great evening performing as The Quiet Club and also with the great Anthony Kelly,Davis Stalling ans Slavic Kwe and other guest making an interesting evening of electro acoustic work++Jan.saw two interesting events including the Cork premier of Karen Powere's piece "somethings just are" which we did in the Guest House. For me this piece just gets better and better every time we do it/hear it. Also I did a gramaphone session in the Guest House called "THISISNOTADJSET" inwhich I played records from my collection going back years all on vinyl or flexi disc. It was interesting going through my collection for the first time in years one tends to forget the gems one has.I started the set with A Raise Of Eyebrows by Ron Geesin which for me is a seminal record.Interestingly there arrived in the post the same week a new DVD of David Topp playing records from his collection which has just been released on Sub Rosa which I highly recommend (as they say)+++++++++The fourth NIVAL seminar entitled ‘Noise/Silence’ will be held on 5 December 2008 at the National College of Art and Design, 100 Thomas Street, Dublin 2, from 1 to 6pm.
The seminar will reflect on correspondences and overlaps between 'noise' and 'silence', exploring the associations and uses of these culturally resonant terms. Bringing together artistic, sociological, musicological and philosophical perspectives, this event partly aims to critically engage with diverse sonic phenomena and their contexts (from aspects of experimental music and popular song to the aural conditions of everyday environments). It will also consider ways in which noise and silence operate as powerful metaphors, informing our wider understanding of aesthetics and politics, influencing our rhetoric and practices of dissent.
Confirmed participants include Phil Collins, Susan Philipsz, Danny McCarthy/Mick O'Shea (The Quiet Club), Sarah Pierce, David Toop, Lars Iyer, Will Large and Anthony McCann. The NIVAL seminar 2008 is run in collaboration with GRADCAM and the MA Art in the Contemporary World, NCAD.
The NIVAL seminar 2008 is run in collaboration with GRADCAM and the MA Art
in the Contemporary World, NCAD.
++++++ Just did an interview on The Dave Fanning Show RTE Radio 1 (www.rte.ie/radio) about sound art and the new book LISTEN hEAR .Anyone interested in hearing can get it online from the archived programme of Wed 5TH Nov+++ Played as guests at Karen Power's wonderful new video and sound installation "SOME THINGS JUST ARE" in The Belltable Arts Centre Limerick on Tue 4TH Nov. She recorded us playing and this will be fed back into the sound of the installation in the course of the week. Also we will be playing again as part of it on Fri 14TH Nov and again at the closing on Fri 21ST Nov++++++++++Played a very interesting gig in An Crubin curated by artist/curator Claire Guerin on Sun 2Nd Nov this is where the old Lobby Bar used to be and should have some ghostly memories (our guests were Vicky Langan and Jesse Ronneau playing with us for the first time and making some really interesting contributions) .+++The Quiet Club launched their first CD entitled TESLA at a special gig in Blackrock Castle Cork on Sunday 5th Oct with special guests Anthony Kelly and David Stalling again the CD is available from Farpoint Recordings (www.farpointrecordings.com) and also at Plug'd Records and The Crawford Gallery ++CULTURE NIGHT 19TH Sept saw the launch of LISTEN hEAR a new book and CD on my work with an intro by David Toop and a text by Julie Forrester.It includes lots of photos and biog plus 13 track CD covering works over a twenty year period.The book is available from www.farpointrecordings.com or e mail me at soundworksunlimited@ireland.com++Finished running at Triskel Arts Centre is my exhibition "Listening With The Sound Turned Off" An online catalogue is available to download from my web site www.dannymccarthy.ie.++++++++++++++++Played a really interesting gig at Live 8 in Galway on the 25TH June and in Triskel with David Toop on the 2ND July and the opening of my exhibition Listening With The Sound Turned Off in Triskel on the 4TH (by David Toop)The following day Sat 5TH saw us at the Glucksman as part of the Quiet Music Festival and the launch of the new ensemble The Quiet Music Ensemble (www,quietmusicensemble.com) as well as the wonderful Pauline Oliverios and co.======Sonic Vigil 3 is now done and dusted featured a fantastic line up with people coming from the four quarters of Ireland and further afield also the YO YO Club had a great line up of DVDs to show with some live work by Tim Fury and Clair Guerin It was a great day Hopefully we will have a double CD of it(Limited Edition) out on Collective Records before long=======Went off to Liverpool European Capital Of Culture (strange typing that again) on the 4TH April to play at Static Gallery alongside such luninaries as Werner Moebius, QXTC AND vj Liz Ainge (www.soundnetwork.org.uk)===Sunday afternoon saw us alongside No Furniture in the Glucksman Gallery Lots of kiddies voices blending in making an interesting soundscape============Did an interesting gig as part of the I&E Festival in the Unitarian Church St Stephens Green Dublin alongside Chip Shop Music (Ire/Fin) and No Furniture (Ger) in a really nice festival organised by Paul Vogel and David Lacey We played using a preprepaired CD by Giordai O Laoghaire see fergus Kelly's pics @ I&E http://www.flickr.com/photos/55867717@N00/sets/===Live gig with Mathias Forge (trombone,objects) who last played here at Sonic Vigil and gave one of the most interesting performances of the day.This will be one of the quietest sets we have done in The Guest House aboveabove================Tuesday 12th of Feb 2008 - The Quiet Club Mick Oshea and Danny McCarthy were recording in the Guest House, and did a live performance to the silent film Faust. This is only a ten minute extract from the stunning two hour long german movie. Documented by the great Claire Guerin link(www.myspace.com/the_guesthouse)
=============Just up is the interview I did for Circa see http://recirca.com/articles/2007/texts/dannyMcCarthy.shtml======================== " A Christmas Presence" is the title of The Quiet Club's Christmas gig this year and took place at lunchtime on 19TH Dec in the Glucksman Gallery )==========New unedited interview up on blog page.The edited version will be published online by Circa.============ Just discovered The Quiet Club up on U Tube playing at a benifit gig for Molly Sturges in Triskel ( no we havn't gone trad)=============I have a tape I produced for Telephone Artline a sound art project for the telephone I organised almost 20 years ago in the days b4 digital (it was done on an answering machine) in The Irish Artist-Led Archive: 'Sustainable Activitism and the Embrace of Flux' exhibition curated by Megs Morley in the Galway Arts Centre November 9th - December 2nd
======================We have set a date next May for our next Sonic Vigil in St Finbarrs Cathedral ===================I will have a CD track and an article in Inter Le Lieu the magazine published by Richard Martell as part of a special audio art edition due out in December=========================As part of Point -Light-Sound Festival my DVD “Keepers Of The Light” screened earlier this year in The Soap Gallery,Japan will now be screened at the Sounds Electric '07 Festival, 20-24 November, Dundalk Institute of Technology as part of Programme 1 - Wednesday 21 Nov, 4pm, Whitaker Lecture Theatre========================++++++++++++++++++++++++++The Quiet Club have played at DEAF (Dublin Electronic Arts Festival) on Sunday 28TH Oct at Yuki Yo Bar alongside seven other acts from Japan and China all playing in different booths at the same time see
( http://www.deafireland.com/index_quiet_club.htm ) for full details.
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I went to Inter Le Lieu in Quebec (www.inter-lelieu.org)
on 8TH Oct. to make a new installation "(Re)sounding Memories/Watering The Plants" plus a solo live sound performance called "Listen Out Loud." amazing city and wonderful people
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I have a track on the new CD called "The Sound We Are Now" (http://soundwearenow.org/) on Alphasia Recordings ( http://www.aphasiarecordings.com/) produced by Anthony Kelly & David Stalling. The track is called "(Re)sounding Memories/Cleaning The House" and is taken from the installation of the same name.Its due to be launched at Art Trail ++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
A sound installation called "Cicada Walk" is currently running in Tobin Street outside Triskel Arts Centre as part of the exhibition "Cicada" curated by Danielle Sheedy the piece was created at her request. It runs until Oct 8TH ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I will be exhibiting some drawings from the "found sound" series "The Rematerialisation Of Sound As An Art Object" as part of a group show called "Things" in The Black Mariah Gallery as their part of Art Trail (www.arttrail.ie)++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++==
The Quiet Club will be performing as part of Art Trail (www.arttrail.ie) in the Firkin Crane on 29TH Sept with guests (John Godfrey&Harry Moore) with very special guest Stephen Vitiello (www.stephenvitiello.com)+++++++++++++
Did a solo set with toy turntable (from Japan) and a trio with Harry Moore and Christian Carley in the wonderful new space The Black Mariah in early August.+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Recent shows also include “Then The Silence Increased” (UK) AND “Art Is Not Mute” (Sweden) also Art is Not Mute – ERSTA Konsthall Sound Archive will be presented at the Institute of Contemporary Art - Dunaújváros, Hungary++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Went to Kobe,Japan on the 30Th June to start setting up the sound and visual installation"(Re)sounding Memories//Cleaning The House" as part of Art From The Rucksack Show.
(http://www.cap-kobe.com/house/info/index.htmRucksack). I also did a solo sound performance there on the 7H July in CAP,House and a solo sound performance on the 8th July in The Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art also in Kobe working with a sculpture by Yukinori Yakumuri with the audience blindfolded(http://www.artm.pref.hyogo.jp/eng/home.html) +++++++
The Quiet Club with guest John Godfrey performed in "MOMENT" (a benifit gig for Molly Sturges) in Triskel Arts Centre Cork on 4th April also performed with Mel Mercier &Micheal O'Suilleabhain, Niall Vallely plus others creating a wall of sound that shook Triskel to its core.
They performed at Apostates in the Beltable Arts Centre Limerick on 17Th. May before Charles Hayward.(http://www.apostates.us/)+++++++++++++ His thoughts on silence form part of a group exhibition "Then The Silence Increased" in the University of Salford from May 19TH see ( http://thenthesilenceincreased.blogspot.com/ )++++++++++
Danny Mc Carthy exhibited his video "Keepers of The Light" as part of "who is your friends?/the soap operas" curated by Declan Rooney and Edvine Larssen in Soap Gallery 1-8-23 2F Kajimachi,Kitakyushu 802-0004,Japan ( www.g-soap.jp ) from 2nd - 9th March +++++++++
Danny Mc Carthy+(www.dannymccarthy.ie)
Brief Biography+++++++Studied at the National College of Art and Design. He has pioneered both performance art and sound art in Ireland and he continues to be a leading exponent exhibiting and performing both in Ireland and abroad recently in SPAN2 in London and at "Hearing Place" in Melbourne, Australia and in April 2004 exhibited/performed in TRACE Gallery Cardiff with a new work “Wild Oats & Cornerstones” and as part of Collective Jukebox 4.03 in Museo Fotografia, Milano, Italy. . His work has appeared on numerous C.D.s and has been broadcast widely on both radio and T. V.. He is a founding director of Triskel Arts Centre and of the National Sculpture Factory and is a director of Art Trail and the Sirius Arts Centre Cobh. He is the recipient of numerous awards and bursaries from both the Irish Arts Council and Dept of Foreign Affairs and has represented Ireland abroad at various exhibitions More recent exhibitions include the premier of his piece “waTEr” at the Bourges International Electro Acoustic Music Festival (France) and “Sounding The Town”(installation) and “Wa(l)king The Dream”(live sound performance with Viv Corringham) in the Sirius Arts Centre Cobh Ireland. . He has recently exhibited as part of the “Trace Retrospective 2000-05” in Franklin Furnace, New York also he has just curated a CD (open submission & invited) entitled “Bend It Like Beckett” for Sound Works/Art Trail Festival to commemorate the Beckett Centenary. In early 2006 he founded The Quiet Club (with Mick O Shea) a floating membership sound(art and electronics) performance group and have presented works all over Ireland and are due to tour Europe in 2007. He recently presented his installation “Another Gong For Mr. Beckett” at the Factory Gallery Berlin and also exhibited in “Found Sound” in the Takt Gallery Berlin.He is due to toured to Kobe Japan and Quebec Canada last year solo and with The Quiet Club.
The Quiet Club was formed early in 2006 by Danny Mc Carthy and Mick O’Shea two of Irelands foremost sound artists as an outlet for their own work and that of other artists. They have met with great initial success and have performed at festivals and venues all over Ireland. Most recently the performed at the Lost Shadows 2 Festival in the Factory Berlin also played in Canada and Japan in 2007. Often performing with special guest artists including David Toop, Jesse Ronneau,John Godfrey, Harry Moore, Christian Carley, Viv Corringham,Mark Wastell and more recently Kelly/Stalling. They perform using a wide mixture of sound sources ranging from circuit bending ,homemade instruments, amplified textures ,stones, Theremins, samplers and various other electronic devices. Their first CD TESLA is out on Farpoint Recordings .
There is no link for The Quiet Club and the first rule of The Quiet Club is you don’t talk about it.
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The final Stet Lab before the summer break takes place this coming Monday (June 8th 2009), upstairs @ The Roundy. Details at: www.busterandfriends.com/stet/diary
The event will feature Juniper Hill, Han-earl Park, Síofra Fitzgerald, Kevin Terry, Veronica Tadman, Piaras Hoban and others.
Come along and make the Stet Lab 2008/9 season go out with a bang, fizz, clang, buzz, bloop and bleep!
Walking, My Legs and Flip a Coin, three songs by Kenneth Cosimo & The Institute of Highspeedart with video projections by Mirjam Hector Live at Club Teatermaskinen Skrappbo Riddarhyttan 25 april 2009
Stet Lab takes place this coming Monday (May 11th 2009), upstairs @ The Roundy. (note: yes, we’re back on Monday!) The event will feature the return of saxophonist Bruce Coates, navigator of avant jazz and post-Cardew experimentalism, and the Irish debut of experimental vocalist and throat singer Jonny Marks. [Details…]
Also performing will be Stet Lab (ir)regulars including Han-earl Park (guitar) and Owen Sutton (drums), and the event will open with a performance by Paul Dowling (bass guitar), Vicky Langan (electronics), and James O’Gorman (guitar).
Stet Lab takes place this coming Tuesday (April 14th), upstairs @ The Roundy. The event will feature the fantastic Katie O’Looney (who you may recall from her brief-but-dynamic cameo in February) on drums and percussion. [Details…]
The evening will also mark the second appearances at Stet Lab by OPKA—Owen Sutton (drums), Paul Dowling (bass), and Kevin Terry and Andrea Bonino (guitars).
An event not to be missed, it’ll be a great way to ease out of the holiday. We hope to see y’all there!
This month’s Stet Lab takes place in just over one week (Tuesday, March 10th), upstairs @ The Roundy, Cork, Ireland. The event will feature the debut of a live electro-acoustic group, the R.E.A.L. Ensemble. [Details…]
Stet Lab takes place this Tuesday, 10 February, upstairs @ The Roundy, Cork, Ireland. The event will feature the awe-inspiring virtuoso saxophonist Paul Dunmall. [Details…] The Lab will also feature appearances by visiting performers, drummer Mark Sanders and guitarist Jamie Smith, and Stet Lab (ir)regulars including Andrea Bonino, Han-earl Park, Paul Dowling, Neil O’Loghlen, Owen Sutton, Veronica Tadman and Kevin Terry.
Dunmall, Park, Sanders and Smith will also be performing at the Lewis Glucksman Gallery, UCC, Cork on Wednesday, 11 February at 1:10 pm as part of the UCC Concert Series.
Hi Danny! havent seen you in a couple of weeks, but I have your dvd still. I left three copies up in the Guest House for you, I could bring them to the Sunfish gig in the Cruibin if you are going to make that?
Back from NOLA, Prospect 1 (New Biennale event) currently on there, big show with loads good work with attitude and responsibility- many pieces addressing Katrina and ensuing neglect towards the city and community.
