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Dublin Sound Lab presents reSounding DUBLIN

7 November 2012

Four new works specially composed for the historic organ of St Werburgh's Church to be performed at St Werburgh's Church, Dublin, 21 November 2012

PRE-CONCERT TALK at Contemporary Music Centre, Wednesday 21 November, 6.30pm

Composers David Bremner, Rob Canning, Fergal Dowling and Gráinne Mulvey discuss their new works, specially written for the 18th-century organ of St Werburgh's Church as part of the first stage of Dublin Sound Lab's reSounding Dublin project, which aims to explore and re-imagine the sonic and urban landscape of Dublin City. Rob Canning will talk about the technology he has developed to stream bi-directional audio between St Werburgh's and a secondary acoustic space, in this case, the space in front of the Contemporary Music Centre's building on Fishamble Street.

CONCERT at St Werburgh's Church, Wednesday 21 November, 8.00pm

Michael Quinn (organ) and David Bremner (organ) perform new works specially composed for the 18th-century organ of St Werburgh's Church, with Fergal Dowling, Gráinne Mulvey and Rob Canning (electronics, live audio streaming). The works by Fergal Dowling, Gráinne Mulvey and David Bremner will involve a dialogue between the acoustic pipe organ and electronics, while Rob Canning's piece will use the urban space near the CMC on Fishamble Street as a secondary location, linked to St Werburgh's using a bi-direction live network audio stream, in which the city literally 'resounds' the sound of the organ.

Programme
David Bremner: New Work for organ and electronics
Rob Canning: 53.342916 -6.269724 <-> 53.344252 -6.269788, Wed Nov 21 19:XX:XX UTC 2012 for organ, secondary acoustic and bi-directional audio stream
Fergal Dowling: Ground for organ, multichannel fixed media and live electronics
Gráinne Mulvey: Streetorgsounds for organ and fixed media

Performers
Michael Quinn, organ; David Bremner, organ; Fergal Dowling, live electronics; Mihai Cucu, video projection

Pre-concert talk: Contemporary Music Centre, 19 Fishamble Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 8 (info@cmc.ie / tel. 01 673 1922) Admission free

Concert tickets: €10 Available at the door
Venue: St Werburgh's Church, Werburgh Street, Dublin 8
Information: www.dublinsoundlab.ie
Enquiries: info@dublinsoundlab.ie / tel. 086 2249686

This event is supported by Dublin City Council and presented in association with the Contemporary Music Centre.

For further information contact Sam Wilcock, Promotion Manager, The Contemporary Music Centre, 19 Fishamble Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 8. (Tel: 01 673 1922 / email: swilcock@cmc.ie / web site: www.cmc.ie)

NOTES FOR EDITORS

DUBLIN SOUND LAB is a contemporary music performance group specialising in new electroacoustic music and computer-mediated performance. The group was formed in 2008 by organist Michael Quinn and composer Fergal Dowling to perform new electroacoustic works by Irish and international composers. DUBLIN SOUND LAB has given Irish premieres of many contemporary electronic works and has worked with leading Irish and international composers, performing works by: Nick Collins, Julio d'Escrivan, Gérard Grisey, Salvatore Sciarrino, Kaija Saariaho, Luca Francesconi, Karlheinz Essl, Peter Ablinger, Mauricio Kagel, Wim de Ruiter, Barry Truax, Roderik de Man, Karen Tanaka, Jean-Claude Risset and Jonathan Harvey. In April 2011 DUBLIN SOUND LAB performed a Beckett-inspired programme at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, to a capacity audience. In August, DUBLIN SOUND LAB represented Ireland at the first InnerSound New Arts Festival in Bucharest, supported by Culture Ireland.
www.dublinsoundlab.ie

David Bremner is a composer, organist and pianist based in Dublin. Originally from West Cumbria, UK, he moved to Ireland in 1999. Having composed since an early age, he commenced formal study with Richard Baker while at Oxford. Later, he studied composition and electronic music with experimental Austrian polymath Karl Stirner, and has attended masterclasses with Michael Finnissy, Christopher Fox and Boguslaw Schaeffer. He is currently completing a Ph.D in Composition at DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama under the supervision of Gráinne Mulvey. As a member of the Irish Composers' Collective, he has had works performed by, amongst others, Prey trio, soprano Elizabeth Hilliard, and Ensemble ICC. He is co-director of the Béal festival of new music and poetry.

Rob Canning is a composer and media artist. His work focuses on finding a dialogue between algorithmic system based composition strategies and intuitive/improvised approaches. He has worked with ensembles such as the London Sinfonietta, Concorde Ensemble, the National Chamber Choir of Ireland and the Con Tempo String Quartet amongst others. His composed works have been performed and broadcast internationally along side his multichannel electronic and installation works which have been appeared in a number of contexts including exhibitions, dance performances and theatre. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D in Goldsmiths, University of London with a focus on computer assisted composition strategies, networks and free/libre/open source software.

Fergal Dowling is a composer of electroacoustic and instrumental music. He studied composition at Trinity College Dublin and with the assistance of the Elizabeth Maconchy Composition Fellowship he completed a PhD in composition at the University of York (2006). He has lectured in music technology and his work as a researcher has produced software-based composition aids and audio processing tools dealing with sound spatialisation and real-time interaction. Many of his works are for soloists or small ensembles and make use of computer-mediated performance strategies to combine real-time electronic parts with instrumental or vocal forces. His fixed-media compositions often make use of 'granular spatialisation' to render multichannel works. His works have been presented in concert and as installations in Ireland, England, Germany, Sweden, Canada, the USA, Spain, Portugal, Brazil, Romania and Japan and he has performed his own computer-based interactive music with various groups including Ex-Machina (Bra), Concorde (Ire), Ensemble Chimera (Eng), Projektgruppe Neue Musik Bremen (Ger), Electro Acoustic Revue (Ire), Grup XXI (Esp), notes inégales (Eng) and Dublin Sound Lab (Ire).

Gráinne Mulvey was born in Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. Her music has been widely performed and broadcast throughout the world. She studied with Eric Sweeney at Waterford Regional Technical College, Hormoz Farhat at Trinity College Dublin and Agustín Fernández at Queen's University, Belfast. In 1999 she gained a DPhil in Composition at the University of York under Nicola LeFanu. She has attended composition courses throughout Europe, notably in Schwaz, Austria, with Boguslaw Schaeffer and Marek Choloniewski, Hoy with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and Sally Beamish, Chichester with Jane Manning and Anthony Payne, Dartington with Louis Andriessen, IRCAM with Kaija Saariaho and Wakefield with Jonathan Harvey. She currently holds the position of Head of Composition at Dublin Institute of Technology Conservatory of Music and Drama. She was elected to Aosdána in 2010 Current projects include: a large- scale work for flute and tape, to be premièred by Joe O'Farrell (flutes) and the composer (sound projection), a new work for Accessible Contemporary Music Ensemble, Chicago and an opera, Judith, to be presented by Pangs Theatre Company, Los Angeles, directed and with libretto by Wolfgang Thompson.

Michael Quinn studied organ and piano at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, continuing his organ studies at the Royal Conservatory, The Hague, with Jos van der Kooy. He has premiered works by Jacques Bank and Tristan Brooks, and collaborated with several composers, including Fergal Dowling and Wim de Ruiter. Michael has appeared as a soloist with the RTE Concert Orchestra in Dublin, and performed in The Netherlands, Germany, England, Spain and the US. He was organ scholar of St Mary's Pro-Cathedral and of Trinity College, where he studied music. In 2006 he co-founded The Crow Street Consort, a period-instrument ensemble.

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. It engages in an ongoing programme of development work to promote new Irish music at home and abroad, and is a member of the International Association of Music Information Centres (IAMIC). The Centre is used, nationally and internationally, by performers, composers, promoters and members of the public interested in finding out more about music in Ireland. Its library and sound archive, open to the public free of charge, contain the only comprehensive collection in existence of music by Irish composers. Extensive reference and advice services are available and the Centre's website provides access to CMC's resources for those who cannot visit in person.
www.cmc.ie