The Crash Ensemble plays an international programme at Dublin’s Sugar Club as part of the DEAF festival this weekend.

The programme is designed by artistic director Donnacha Dennehy and composer Arnold Dreyblatt. It includes work by La Monte Young, Alvin Lucier and Terry Riley (his famous ensemble piece, In C) as well as the premiere of a major new work by Dreyblatt himself. The new composition, Resonant Relations, has been specially commissioned for the Crash Ensemble with funds provided by the Arts Council.

Arnold Dreyblatt is one of the most distinctive voices in music today. Hailing from the downtown musical scene of New York in the 1970s, while an assistant to La Monte Young he nourished his interest in using the natural overtone series as a basis for musical composition. In 1979 he founded a group called The Orchestra of Excited Strings with whom he developed his uniquely rhythmic compositions entirely based on overtone series. Dreyblatt gained a cult following and in recent years many other groups have started performing and commissioning his music.

The concert takes place in the Sugar Club on Thursday 27 October. For details please visit the Calendar.

Posted: 26 October 2005