Dublin Sound Lab presents Octophonies-Music for soloists & 8 loudspeakers.

On the 22 and 23 October 2010, DUBLIN SOUND LAB presents Octophonies at the Project Arts Centre, with music for soloists and 8 loudspeakers.  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.

OCTOPHONIES brings three soloists (Deirdre Moynihan, soprano, Marja Gaynor, violin and Michael Quinn, harpsichord) into dialogue with cutting-edge electronics, via a multichannel sound system. Programmes include music by young Irish composers (Ed Bennett, Judith Ring, Ann Cleare and Scott McLaughlin) and leading international composers (Kaija Saariaho, Jonathan Harvey, Barry Truax) projected on an 8-channel surround-sound loudspeaker array. In the opening concert Michael Quinn tackles two of the most demanding works in the contemporary harpsichord repertoire: Kaija Saariaho’s mystical Jardin Secret II, and Jean-Claude Risset’s stunning Pentacle (both Irish premieres). Soprano Deirdre Moynihan delivers two virtuosic works for voice and tape by young Irish composers Ed Bennett and Judith Ring, contextualised by Jonathan Harvey’s seminal electronic tour-de-force, Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco, based on recordings of the human voice. On Saturday 23 Oct, Finnish violinist Marja Gaynor performs two fascinating computer-mediated works by Irish composers Ann Cleare and Scott McLaughlin, together with Barry Truax’s astonishing electronic masterpiece Riverrun, inspired by Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake.

Tickets: €15/10 (€20/15 for both concerts)
Venue: Project Arts Centre, 39 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2.
Booking: www.projectartscentre.ie Tel: (01) 8819613
Information: www.dublinsoundlab.ie
Supported by the Arts Council and Dublin City Council