Music Current 2023: Dublin Sound Lab Concert featuring the world premiere of a work by Francis Heery
Project Arts Centre
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This event is part of Music Current 2023, view the full programme here. Dublin Sound Lab presents a programme of Irish premieres, including three new works written especially for this performance by Francis Heery, Jaki Irvine and Alessandro Massobrio’s new Music Current Festival commission. This seemingly eclectic programme shows the results of extended collaborations combined with video and virtuosic interaction. Three modern multimedia and electronic music “classics” for soloists form the skeleton of the programme: Simon Steen-Anderson’s hypnotic Study for String Instrument #3, and Johannes Kreidler’s Bow – both of which are visually witty commentaries on the concept of multimedia composition and interaction – and Martin Matalon’s masterfully sonorous Traces V for clarinet and computer.
Francis Heery’s Towards a Soteriological Theory of Bog Bodies (for piano, synthesiser and electric guitar) and Alessandro Massobrio’s, Calanchi, (for piano and electric guitar) are, in a way, sister pieces. Both were composed for this concert and purposely for Izumi Kimura (piano) and Shane Latimer (electric guitar). And both make use of extraordinarily detailed instrumental sonic explorations that reveal an astonishing sensability of sound and precision workmanship, in both composition and performance.
Jaki Irvine’s Re_sett_ing_s (for mixed chamber ensemble and live video/VJ) is quite literally a resetting of her recent two-person show of the same name, with Locky Morris at The Complex, Dublin. The artist John Graham described that exhibition as, “a panoply of looping images and sounds; a discursive array of interacting elements that, while tightly constructed, feels enjoyably lawless.” Here the work is literally reset, amplified and projected with the forces of flute, violin, piano and drum kit, and revels in its self confidence and tightly controlled lawlessness.
Programme
Simon Steen-Anderson, Study for String Instrument #3, for cello, tape and video (2011)*
Francis Heery, Towards a Soteriological Theory of Bog Bodies, for piano and guitar (2023)**
Johannes Kreidler, Bow, for violin, tape, and video (2020)*
Alessandro Massobrio, Calanchi, for piano and guitar (2023)**
Martin Matalon, Traces V, for clarinet and interactive electronics (2006)*
Jaki Irvine, Re_sett_ing_s, for mixed chamber ensemble and live video/VJ (2022)**
* Irish Premiere
** World Premiere
Tickets
Book tickets and festival passes at Project Arts Centre here.
Show Time: 8pm (Duration 70 mins)
Music Current is produced in collaboration with the Contemporary Music Centre and supported by the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon, and Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne.