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For Immediate Release
New Noise - New Music Marathon
16 April 2009
The Contemporary Music Centre presents its annual student new music marathon at the Sonic Arts Research Centre, (SARC), Queen’s University, Belfast, on Saturday 9 May 2009. A number of concerts of new music by student composers will take place throughout the day, programmed by Professor Michael Alcorn, composer and Head of the School of Music and Sonic Arts at Queens University.
This is the first time that the new music marathon takes place in Northern Ireland, and the area will be well represented with students from Queen’s University and the University of Ulster taking part.
Composition and performance students from University College Cork (UCC,) Trinity College Dublin (TCD), University of Limerick (UL), Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT) and Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) are also participating.
The concert programmes for the day will be an eclectic mix of new instrumental, electro-acoustic and electronic music. The marathon provides students with a valuable opportunity to have their work performed in public, as well as the chance to meet their peers and discover the trends in new music in different institutions around the country. The annual Sonorities festival takes place at SARC on 10 May thereby allowing students to experience a feast of new music over the weekend.
The Contemporary Music Centre is Ireland's national archive and resource centre for new music, supporting the work of composers throughout the Republic and Northern Ireland. The Centre is supported by the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon. The Contemporary Music Centre would like to acknowledge the support of the Music Department at Queen’s University Belfast for hosting this year’s student new music marathon.
Admission to all concerts during the day is free. For more information and details of the concert programmes please contact Aoife FitzPatrick, Administration and Promotion Officer, The Contemporary Music Centre, 19 Fishamble Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 8. Tel. 01 673 1922, email afitzpatrick@cmc.ie web site www.cmc.ie.