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For Immediate Release

InterPlay -- An Exhibition of Interactive Sound Installations

27 August 2008

The Contemporary Music Centre opens its doors to welcome visitors of all ages as part of Dublin's Culture Night 2008, 6pm - 11pm, Friday 19 September, with a series of interactive sound installations.

The installations, which will allow visitors to experience a new world of music and sound, are being created especially for Culture Night by young Irish composers Jonathan Nagle, Sean Reed and Brian Solon.

Jonathan Nangle is presenting a system of three double pendulums, used in physics to prove the laws of chaos. The three pendulums are tuned and as they swing they create music, which is unique each time. Sean Reed has created an audiovisual representation of an oracle that gives personal prophecies, and Brian Solon is devising an audiovisual installation that the viewer controls by cycling a stationary bicycle.

"The Contemporary Music Centre is delighted to be taking part in Culture Night again, especially since its success has now made it a nationwide event," says Aoife FitzPatrick, Promotion Officer, the Contemporary Music Centre.

Culture Night is an initiative begun by Temple Bar Cultural Trust to encourage people to get out and experience everything on offer from Dublin's numerous cultural organisations. Since its beginning in 2006, Culture Night has grown to include over 100 of the city's arts and cultural organisations with the vast majority opening until 11pm, and their very own free events programme for young and old, which is expected to attract in excess of 100,000 people this year. This year Culture Night is expanding to other parts of the country, taking place in Cork, Limerick and Galway for the first time. For full details of these events please see www.culturenight.ie.

The Contemporary Music Centre is Ireland's national archive and resource centre for new music. The Centre is supported by the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

Admission is free. For further information on the event please contact Aoife FitzPatrick, Promotion Officer, The Contemporary Music Centre, 19 Fishamble Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 8 on 01 673 1922, or email afitzpatrick@cmc.ie.

Notes for Editors

Jonathan Nangle
Jonathan Nangle is a Dublin-based composer whose work explores many diverse fields. He studied music and philosophy at Trinity College (TCD), and received an M.Phil in Music and Media Technology. While at TCD he studied composition with Donnacha Dennehy and Rob Canning, and electro-acoustic composition with Roger Doyle. His piece our headlights blew softly into the black, illuminating very little won the Music21/Association of Irish Composers Irish Composition Prize in 2007. He lectures in music technology and electro-acoustic composition in the Royal Irish Academy of Music.

Sean Reed
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. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Music Composition under Donnacha Dennehy at Trinity College in Dublin, where he also teaches courses in composition and orchestration.

Brian Solon
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 graduated from Computer Science from UCD in 2004, continuing with an M.Phil. in Music and Media Technologies at Trinity College Dublin. There he studied composition with Donnacha Dennehy, Roger Doyle and Fergus Johnston. Brian currently lectures part-time in music and media technologies at Trinity College.