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For Immediate Release

The Contemporary Music Centre presents Play with Music II

4 July 2011

The Contemporary Music Centre presents Play with Music II on 17 and 24 July as part of the Temple Bar Cultural Trust Made in Temple Bar Festival, 15 – 24 July 2011. Experience music like never before! Create sounds and images using the latest trends in music technology! Meet inspiring young composers and learn about their work!

The Contemporary Music Centre will play host to a range of sound and visual installations from music and multimedia students from around Ireland tailored for children as well as adults.

Play with Music II consists of two different multimedia installations, Handchime and Wee-Doodle, and offers an exciting opportunity for children and adults to interact with sound and vision.

Handchime, created by Irish composers, Edward Costello and Andrew McGovern, is an interactive melody generator, that uses hand gestures to control pitch and sound textures. The installation makes use of both audio and visual feedback, which provides a simple and intuitive way of creating pleasant melodic textures.

Wee-Doodle, created by Irish composer, Eoin Smith, is an easy and fun way of manipulating visuals and sounds, using a Wii remote. It allows users to control audio, draw shapes and generally explore the sonic and visual world in the installation. The idea is simple – take the controller and enjoy a Wee-Doodle.

Admission is free and both installations which are located in The Contemporary Music Centre will be open to the public from 12.00pm – 4.00pm, on Sunday 17 and Sunday, 24 July 2011. Booking not required.

The Contemporary Music Centre is Ireland's national archive and resource centre for new music, supporting and developing the work of composers throughout the Republic and Northern Ireland. The Centre is supported by the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. Play with Music II is made possible through funding support of Temple Bar Cultural Trust.

For further information and to arrange interviews with any of the composers involved contact Karen Hennessy, Promotion Manager, The Contemporary Music Centre, 19 Fishamble Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 8, tel: 01 673 1922, email: khennessy@cmc.ie
www.cmc.ie

Temple Bar Cultural Trust presents Made in Temple Bar, an imaginative, dynamic and extra special 10 day programme that includes opportunities for young and old to get creative and make their own works of art with over 70 events taking place in Temple Bar, including premieres of site specific theatre, outdoor movies and specially commissioned art and sound installations. Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the regeneration of Temple Bar as Dublin's Cultural Quarter.
www.templebar.ie

Notes for Editors

Play with Music II

Handchime and Wee-Doodle
12pm – 4pm, Sunday, 17 and Sunday, 24 July
Admission FREE
The Contemporary Music Centre
19 Fishamble Street
Temple Bar
Dublin 8
Tel: 01 6731922
Email: info@cmc.ie
Web site: www.cmc.ie

Edward Costello
Edward Costello is completing his masters degree at NUI Maynooth. He has been composing and performing electronic music from a young age, which lead him to study sound synthesis at university. Edwards interest in electronic music spans from the creation of interactive composition tools to researching new forms of digital sound synthesis.

Andrew McGovern
Andrew Mc Govern is a composer based in Dublin. His compositions consist of electroacoustic pieces. He is currently working on his Masters at Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland. Where he is specializing in interactive audio visual installations.

Eoin Smith
Eoin Smith is an artist from Dublin. He is a PhD student at NUI, Maynooth. His research is centered around exploring the expressive qualities of the turntable in both the performance and composition of electro-acoustic music, more specifically using the turntable as both a controller and instrument for computer based audio and visual tools.