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The Dublin Guitar Quartet
  • The Dublin Gui­tar Quartet
  • Thurs­day 5th August 2010 · 7:30 pm
  • Smock Alley The­atre, Exchange St. Lower, Dublin 8

  • Fol­low­ing suc­cess­ful con­certs with New Dublin Voices and the Bridge­wood Ensem­ble, the Spa­tial Music Col­lec­tive are proud to present a night of live spa­tial music with the Dublin Gui­tar Quar­tet at Smock Alley The­atre in Dublin on August 5th.

    The Dublin Gui­tar Quar­tet formed in 2002 with the sole aim of per­form­ing con­tem­po­rary music. To this end, the quar­tet have devel­oped numer­ous orig­i­nal arrange­ments of exist­ing works and com­mis­sioned many new works of con­tem­po­rary music for both clas­si­cal and elec­tric gui­tars. The quar­tet have worked directly with com­posers such as Kevin Volans, Don­nacha Den­nehy, Sofia Gubaidulina, Philip Glass and many of Ireland’s estab­lished and emerg­ing composers.

    For this very spe­cial con­cert, the quar­tet will be per­form­ing with elec­tric gui­tars and four gui­tar ampli­fiers posi­tioned in the four cor­ners of the the­atre, while the elec­tronic parts will be per­formed using an addi­tional eight-channel sur­round sound speaker array. The con­cert will include the pre­mière per­for­mance of new works for elec­tric gui­tar quar­tet and 8-channel elec­tron­ics by Brian Bridges, Linda Buck­ley, Simon Cullen, Michael Flem­ing and Jonathan Nan­gle. In addi­tion, Enda Bates will be per­form­ing a new work for hexa­phonic gui­tar and elec­tron­ics and Pat Brun­nock from the Dublin Gui­tar Quar­tet will be per­form­ing Steve Reich’s Elec­tric Counterpoint.

8.5 | DEAF 2009
  • 8.5 | DEAF 2009
  • Fri­day 23rd Octo­ber 2009 · 8:00 pm
  • Kevin Barry Room, National Con­cert Hall

  • The Spa­tial Music Col­lec­tive presents 8.5 – a con­cert of spa­tial elec­tronic music 

    The con­cert will fea­ture orig­i­nal com­po­si­tions by the mem­bers of the col­lec­tive, along with an elec­tronic real­i­sa­tion of ’Spem in Alium’, a forty-part motet com­posed in 1570 by Thomas Tallis for eight choirs of five voices. 

    This highly regarded work of Renais­sance Poly­phonic choral music rep­re­sents one of the ear­li­est forms of spa­tial music, as the eight choirs are posi­tioned around (and some­times above) the audience. 

    In this instru­men­tal ver­sion, each choir is ren­dered elec­tron­i­cally, and pre­sented from dis­crete loca­tions around the audience. 

Alvin Lucier 'I am sitting in a room' | DEAF 2009
  • Alvin Lucier ‘I am sit­ting in a room’ | DEAF 2009
  • Fri­day 23rd Octo­ber 2009 · 6:30 pm
  • Kevin Barry Room, National Con­cert Hall

  • Spa­tial Music Col­lec­tive per­form Alvin Lucier’s ‘I am sit­ting in a room’ as part of Dublin Elec­tronic Arts Fes­ti­val 2009.

    One of the best known works by Amer­i­can com­poser Alvin Lucier, this per­for­mance of ‘I am Sit­ting in a Room’ is realised through the lay­er­ing of suc­ces­sive record­ings made in one place. 

    A per­former is recorded speak­ing a text. This record­ing is played back in the same room and then re-recorded, and this process is repeated mul­ti­ple times. Each record­ing is affected by the sonic char­ac­ter­is­tics of the per­for­mance space, and the par­tic­u­lar res­o­nant fre­quen­cies of the room become increas­ingly dom­i­nant as the process is repeated. Even­tu­ally, the orig­i­nal text becomes entirely inde­ci­pher­able and is replaced by the res­o­nant fre­quen­cies and tones of the room itself.

Spatial Music Workshops | DEAF 2009
  • Spa­tial Music Work­shops | DEAF 2009
  • Fri­day 23rd Octo­ber 2009 · 2:00 pm
  • Kevin Barry Room, National Con­cert Hall

  • Aimed at com­posers, musi­cians, pro­duc­ers and audio tech­ni­cians who would like to learn more about the pro­duc­tion of spa­tial music, these three work­shops are free of charge.

    Places are lim­ited and tick­ets must be pre-booked. 
    Con­tact spatialmc@gmail.com for ticket bookings.

    Spa­tial Audio Pro­duc­tion – Spa­tial Music Collective

    Address­ing the pro­duc­tion of spa­tial audio using pop­u­lar music pro­duc­tion plat­forms such as Pro Tools, Cubase, Logic and Able­ton Live, this work­shop will show a basic approach to cre­at­ing a quadra­phonic, 5.1 or multi-channel mix using var­i­ous sequencers and musi­cal exam­ples. Dif­fer­ent mix­ing strate­gies and aes­thetic approaches to surround-sound mix­ing will be dis­cussed and demonstrated.

    Ambison­ics Work­shop – Enda Bates

    Ambison­ics is an effec­tive spa­tial audio pro­duc­tion for­mat which has a num­ber of advan­tages over tra­di­tional pair-wise pan­ning tech­niques. This work­shop will illus­trate how this tech­nique can be imple­mented using free VST plu­g­ins and the share­ware sequencer Reaper. The posi­tion­ing and move­ment of sounds with Ambison­ics and the dif­fer­ences between this tech­nique and other meth­ods will be demonstrated. 

    Spa­tial Music Aes­thet­ics – Linda Buckley

    Focus­ing on aes­thetic aspects of spa­tial music com­po­si­tion, this work­shop will look at his­tor­i­cal exam­ples (both acoustic and elec­tronic) along­side some orig­i­nal com­po­si­tions by the pre­sent­ing com­poser. The talk will also incor­po­rate aspects of psy­choa­coustics, i.e. the listener’s per­cep­tion of sound when work­ing with spa­tial sound and music.

Synth Eastwood Has You Surrounded | Dublin Fringe Festival 2009
  • Synth East­wood Has You Sur­rounded | Dublin Fringe Fes­ti­val 2009
  • Thurs­day 10th Sep­tem­ber 2009 · 9:30 pm
  • The Spiegel­tent, Dublin

  • Dublin Fringe Fes­ti­val listing »
8.4
  • 8.4
  • Wednes­day 17th June 2009 · 8:30 pm
  • National Con­cert Hall, Kevin Barry Room

  • A con­cert of new mul­ti­chan­nel elec­tronic & elec­troa­coustic works.
Dublin Electronic Arts Festival 2008
  • Dublin Elec­tronic Arts Fes­ti­val 2008
  • Sat­ur­day 25th Octo­ber 2008 · 7:30 pm
  • The Dig­i­tal Exchange, The Dig­i­tal Hub, Dublin 8

  • DEAF list­ing »
The Bridgewood Ensemble
  • The Bridge­wood Ensemble
  • Thurs­day 26th June 2008 · 8:00 pm
  • SS Michael & John, Essex St. West, Dublin 2

  • New works for string quar­tet and mul­ti­chan­nel elec­tron­ics by Enda Bates, Brian Bridges, Simon Cullen, Liam Grant, Daniel Jacob­son, Ian McDon­nell & Jonathan Nangle. 

    Com­mis­sioned by the Arts Coun­cil of Ireland.
New Dublin Voices
  • New Dublin Voices
  • Wednes­day 30th Jan­u­ary 2008 · 8:00 pm
  • The Chapel, Trin­ity Col­lege Dublin

8.3
  • 8.3
  • Fri­day 22nd June 2007 · 8:00 pm
  • The KBH, Royal Irish Acad­emy of Music, West­land Row, Dublin 2

8.2
  • 8.2
  • Wednes­day 31st Jan­u­ary 2007 · 8:00 pm
  • The Print­ing House, Trin­ity Col­lege Dublin

1.8
  • 1.8
  • Wednes­day 8th Novem­ber 2006 · 8:00 pm
  • The Print­ing House, Trin­ity Col­lege Dublin


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