amplify #53: Music Current 2021

Episode 53 features conversations with some of the artists involved in this year’s Music Current festival, which took place in November. Composer and festival director Fergal Dowling on the background and aims of the festival, clarinetist Paul Roe along with composers Neil O’Conner and Elis Czerniak on their collaborations, flautists Lina Andonovska and Richard Craig, and Seán O Dailaigh on his new piece written especially for Richard. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson.

Production and editing: Jonathan Grimes / Keith Fennell

Show Notes

• Music Current
• Fergal Dowling
  • CMC composer page
  • fergaldowling.com
• Music Current Soloists
• Neil O’Connor
  • Ordnance Survey - Field Work
  • CMC composer page
  • neiloconnor.org
• Elis Czerniak
• Lina Andonovska - Public Privacy
• Richard Craig
• Richard Craig - Vale
• Seán Ó Dálaigh
  • CMC composer page
  • seanodalaigh.com

Music

• Ordnance Survey - Earlsfort Terrace 1991
• Neil O’Connor - Frisson / Rapture (Paul Roe, Neil O’Connor)*
• Elis Czerniak - and the Acceptance of Death (Joe O’Farrell, Paul Roe, Ilse de Ziah)*
• Ordnance Survey - Belfield May 1985
• David Fennessy - Bridge (Lina Andonovska)*
• Seán Ó Dálaigh - Landscape II (Richard Craig)*
• Fergal Dowling - Double (Richard Craig)*

*Recordings taken from Music Current 2021 festival