The Contemporary Music Centre presents The Art of Sound

To celebrate 25 years of the Contemporary Music Centre and as part of a series of events planned for 2011, The Contemporary Music Centre is showing a selection of its Art of Sound exhibition on an ongoing basis in its new Platform for Performance space in Fishamble Street.

The Art of Sound is a multi-media exhibition consisting of large panels with striking photos of composers, graphic scores and information on the composers. The exhibition is accompanied by an audio-guide, with music excerpts, narrated by Eamon Lawlor, RTÉ lyric fm. The panels and music on display are: Gerald Barry (Au Milieu); Barry Guy (Un coup de dés /A dice-throw); Mícheal Ó Súilleabháin (Oileán/Island); Deirdre Gribbin (Venus Blazing) and Judith Ring (Interference). This exhibition is open to the public from 11am – 4pm, Monday to Friday. Admission is free and no booking is required.  It is envisaged that the panels on exhibit will rotate during the year and that other music related exhibitions will also be displayed in the Centre’s Platform for Performance space at intervals throughout the year.

Devised by the Contemporary Music Centre in partnership with the Music Department of University College Cork, The Art of Sound exhibition was funded by Cork 2005: European Capital of Culture, with capital funding provided by the Arts Council/ An Chomhairle Ealaíon for the audio-guide system.  To date it has been on view in Cork County Museum as part of Cork 2005: European Capital of Culture; in Rothe House as part of the Kilkenny Arts Festival 2007; at the Contemporary Urban Centre during Liverpool European Capital of Culture 2008 and in the Civic Theatre, Tallaght, South County Dublin in 2008.