Music Current 2025: Dublin Sound Lab - Frenzy
Project Arts Centre
As part of Music Current Festival 2025.
Performers
Yseult Cooper-Stockdale, cello
Paul Roe, clarinets
Feilimidh Nunan, violin
Caitriona Frost, percussion
Shane Latimer, e-guitar
Sillvija Ščerbavičiūtė, flute
Fergal Dowling, electronics, video
Fergal McKeown, sound
Dublin Sound Lab perform a new programme titled 'Frenzy', the opening concert in Music Current 2025 with their trademark international multimedia style, featuring a new commission from by rising star Lautaro Figuero Bacarce (Argentina), Michael Beil's (Germany) seminal, virtuosic and highly idiomatic study of string technique (and video technique!), Peter Fahey's (Irl) new work specially written for this programme, Christof Ressi's (Austria) witty study of computer-video-music interaction, and festival director Fergal Dowling's inharmonic transhumanist anti-manifesto, Super_Human.
Dublin Sound Lab is a contemporary music project group specialising in electronic and computer-mediated concert performance. As well as presenting existing works, we initiate collaborations and use computer-based techniques to explore relationships between compositional process and performance practice, and to create new and engaging concert experiences.
Formed in 2008 by composer Fergal Dowling and organist Michael Quinn, Dublin Sound Lab has worked with many leading Irish and international composers, performing works by: Ailis Ni Riain, Gérard Grisey, Salvatore Sciarrino, Kaija Saariaho, Luca Francesconi, Karlheinz Essl, Peter Ablinger, Mauricio Kagel, Wim de Ruiter, Ann Cleare, Scott McLaughlin, Barry Truax, Roderik de Man, Karen Tanaka, Jean-Claude Risset, Ed Bennett, Judith Ring, Gerald Barry, Jonathan Nangle, Jonathan Harvey, Rob Canning, Gráinne Mulvey, David Bremner, and Garth Knox, amongst others.
Programme
Michael Beil - String Jane, 2016, (for cello solo with live-video and tape) 10'
Lautaro Figueroa Balcarce - new work,* 2025 (for clarinet, violin, live electronics and video), 10'
Peter Fahey - Assembly Line 2.0, 2025 (for clarinet, e-gui, violin, cello, live electronics and video), 10'
Christof Ressi - GIF Frenzy, 2020, (for clarinet, violin, cello), 10'
Fergal Dowling - Super_Human, 2020 (for violin, cello, live electronics and video), 20'
* Music Current Commission