CMC is taking part in Culture Night on Friday 19 September with a number of interactive sound installations from young Irish composers.

Culture Night is an intiative, which began in 2006, led by Temple Bar Cultural Trust in association with the Council of National Cultural Institutions and supported by the Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism, to provide a new and imaginative route for people of all ages to connect with the arts and cultural life of the city.

Since then Culture Night has grown to include over 100 of the city's arts and cultural organisations all of which are presenting their very own free events programme for young and old. The event is expected to attract in excess of 100,000 people this year. This year Culture Night is also spreading nationwide to Cork, Galway and Limerick.

As part of the citywide activities for Culture Night CMC presents InterPlay, an exhibition of interactive sound installations created by Jonathan Nangle, Sean Reed and Brian Solon. The Centre will open its doors from 6pm to 11pm. Bring the whole family along to create your own unique music using double pendulums, receive a personal reading from an oracle, or lose yourself in an audiovisual work of art.

Jonathan Nangle, Sean Reed, Brian Solon

Jonathan Nangle is a Dublin-based composer whose work explores many diverse fields. He studied music and philosophy at Trinity College Dublin, and received an M.Phil in Music and Media Technology. His piece our headlights blew softly into the black, illuminating very little won the Music21/Association of Irish Composers Irish Composition Prize in 2007.

Sean Reed is an American composer now based in Dublin. He studied at the Eastman School of Music and the Hamburg College of Music and Theater under Manfred Stahnke. Active as a composer for classical ensembles as well as interactive and computer/tape music, he is also involved in collaborative work with dance, theater, visual art, video, and space-sound installations.

Brian Solon is a Dublin-based artist, composer, designer and technologist whose work encompasses acoustic and electronic composition, performance and improvisation, interactive mixed-media installations, video systems design, and physical computing. Brian studied composition with Donnacha Dennehy, Roger Doyle and Fergus Johnston at Trinity College Dublin.

For full details of the event please see our calendar. Admission is free. For more information contact CMC on 01-673 1922 or email info@cmc.ie. Full details of Culture Night 2008 are available on www.culturenight.ie.

Posted: 22 August 2008