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The Contemporary Music Centre celebrates love:live music - national music day

22 March 2011

The Contemporary Music Centre has a fun filled day of live performance, audio-visual screenings, an outdoor Sound Gallery and an illustrated talk to celebrate love:live music - national music day, 8 April 2011. All events are free and all take place at the Centre's premises in Fishamble Street.

The Centre's celebrations will begin on the eve of love:live music with a talk by Irish composer Benjamin Dwyer on this major work Crow, 6pm - 7pm, 7 April 2011. On 8 April love:live music day celebrations will culminate with the screening of the full-length film version of Scenes from Crow, 6pm - 7pm.

The Centre's love:live music day will also feature a specially compiled jukebox from the Centre's call for submissions for love:live music in its outdoor Sound Gallery "Off the Rails". This outdoor jukebox will kick-start love:live music day by playing the specially commissioned tune at noon with the jukebox continuing until 1pm.

A screening of Irish composer, Jennifer Walshe's XXX_Live_Nude_Girls!!! - A Barbie Opera, will take place in the Centre's library, 115pm, 8 April 2011. Live performance will then take place from 445pm onwards and will feature Irish Composer Michael Holohan, keyboards and musicians Breifne Holohan, electric guitar and Brian Dunning, flute amongst others.

Scenes from Crow (55') by Benjamin Dwyer is written for large amplified ensemble, tape and video with visuals by the leading Irish photographer/video artist, David Farrell. Twelve years in the making, this major work is based on the Crow (1974) poems of Yorkshire poet Ted Hughes. The music and visuals respond to the powerful themes and images created around Crow, the book's mythological protagonist who stands in for 'man'. With its irreverent imagery and powerful language, Crow was the literary scandal of the 1970s, and, in many respects, remains so.

In his talk Dwyer will explore in detail his response to the Crow text. He will outline the process of 'musical ekphrasis', which involved integrating structural aspects and images from the Crow poems into the music in order to provide an aural 'representation' of the text. This process has resulted in an uncompromising score rich in mythic undertones and primal effects.

love:live music, an initiative of Music Network, is a celebration of all forms of music in Ireland through free nationwide music events and aims to promote access to live music for all regardless of location or circumstance and to encourage active participation in music events.
www.lovelivemusic.ie

The Contemporary Music Centre is Ireland's national archive, resource centre and promotional body for new music, supporting the work of Irish composers from the Republic and Northern Ireland. The Centre is supported by the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

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

Notes For Editors

7 April 2011
6pm - 715pm
Benjamin Dwyer Talk on Crow

CMC Library
19 Fishamble Street
Temple Bar
Dublin 8
Admission Free
Booking recommended
To book: tel: 01 6731922 or email: info@cmc.ie

8 April 2011
12pm - 1pm
Outdoor Jukebox - with the Tune at Noon

CMC "Off the Rails" Sound Gallery
Front Railings of CMC
19 Fishamble Street
Temple Bar
Dublin 8

115pm - 150pm
Jennifer Walshe - XXX_Live_Nude_Girls!!! - A Barbie Opera A Screening

CMC Library
19 Fishamble Street
Temple Bar
Dublin 8
Admission Free
Booking recommended
To book: tel: 01 6731922 or email: info@cmc.ie

Live Performance

445pm - 500pm
An audio-visual work

Jin Lim and Ben Mc Hugh - Beyond the Borders of Sound and Image

500pm - 515pm
Philip Lawson (guitar)

Anna Murray - La Cathedrale Dissoute

515pm - 6pm
Michael Holohan (keyboards), Breifne Holohan (electric guitar), Brian Dunning (flute)

Michael Holohan -The Snotgreen C
Breifne Holohan - Escape
Breifne Holohan - Scale
Improvisation - The May Morning Dew

CMC Platform for Performance Space
19 Fishamble Street
Temple Bar
Dublin 8
Admission Free
Booking recommended
To book: tel: 01 6731922 or email: info@cmc.ie

6pm - 7pm
Benjamin Dwyer - Scenes from Crow - A Screening

CMC Library
19 Fishamble Street
Temple Bar
Dublin 8
Admission Free
Booking recommended
To book: tel: 01 6731922 or email: info@cmc.ie

Benjamin Dwyer
Benjamin Dwyer is a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, the Royal Academy of Music, London and Queen's University, Belfast. Equally known as a guitarist and composer, he has performed with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, the Neubrandenberg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Irish Chamber Orchestra, the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, the Vogler Quartet and new music ensemble Vox21. In 2006 he was elected a member of Aosdána, Ireland's state-sponsored academy of creative artists.

Jennifer Walshe
Composer and performer Jennifer Walshe was born in Dublin and studied composition at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and Northwestern University, Chicago, graduating with a doctoral degree in composition in 2002. Her music has been performed and broadcast in Ireland and abroad and she has received commissions from festivals around the world. Recent awards include a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York, in 2007 and the Praetorius Music Prize for Composition by the Niedersächsisches inisterium für Wissenschaft und Kultur in 2008.

Michael Holohan
Born in Dublin in 1956, Michael Holohan was educated at University College Dublin, the Dublin College of Music and Queen's University, Belfast. His music has been performed both in Ireland and abroad, and has been broadcast by RTÉ, BBC and other international networks. He is a former chairman of The Association of Irish Composers and the Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda. In 1999 he was elected to Aosdána, Ireland's state-sponsored academy of creative artists.