The Contemporary Music Centre takes part in Culture Night on 14 September.

In an initiative which has been running for many years in other major cities such as New York, Rome, Paris, Copenhagen etc, on Friday 14 September over 80 of Dublin's leading museums, galleries, studios and theatres will throw open their doors until 10.00pm to encourage people who normally don't do so to visit them and learn of the city's rich cultural offering.

CMC's contribution to the evening will feature live and improvised electronic music performed by three of Dublin's most exciting new electronic musicians. Ian McDonnell, Ewan Hennelly (Muttermal) and Francis Heery will perform both individually and together as a laptop ensemble, creating everything from ambient drones to terrifying noise, rhythmical, non-rhythmical, melodic and abstract, and anything in between.

Ian McDonnell

Ian McDonnell is a Dublin-based musician and composer. He recently completed a Masters in Music and Media Technology at Trinity College Dublin, where he studied composition with Donnacha Dennehy, Roger Doyle and Fergus Johnston. He has been involved in the electronic music scene in Dublin for many years, and is currently putting the finishing touches on an album for electronic act Lakker.

Ewan Hennelly (Muttermal) has become one of Ireland's best-known electronic musicians over the past number of years, amassing a considerable catalogue of releases on labels both at home and abroad. Ewan also composes a very different form of electronic music under the name Muttermal.

Francis Heery is a composer and musician currently based in Dublin. He is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, where he completed a Masters in Music and Media Technology and studied composition under Donnacha Dennehy, Roger Doyle and Fergus Johnston. His electroacoustic works have been broadcast on Irish and Swedish national radio and included in sound art installations in Germany, Italy, Argentina and in the Catskills Mountains, New York State.

Sets lasting half an hour begin at 6.00pm, 6.45pm, 7.30pm and 8.15pm, in the Contemporary Music Centre, 19 Fishamble Street, Temple Bar.

For full details of the CMC event, please visit the Calendar. Admission is free. To book please contact CMC on 01-6731922 or e-mail info@cmc.ie.

Over 80 of Dublin's galleries, museums and other cultural institutions are taking part in Culture Night, with over 100 free events being offered between and 5pm and 10pm on Friday 14th September. For more information on these events see www.culturenight.ie

Posted: 21 August 2007