Samples taken from “Whale Song” on the YouTube channel Oceania iWhales (2008).  The Oceania Project 2017, all rights reserved 
Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WabT1L-nN-E

Balaena

I made this for a class I took two years ago. The instructions for the piece were to compose something that represented our understanding of what John Cage meant by his metaphor of an empty glass... I still don't understand. 
I'm uploading it now because I'm procrastinating the work I actually need to do. Listen, enjoy, make Dee's procrastination worthwhile and recreate it if you wish.
Divide players into 4 groups. Players will play their instruments but not blow into them
Instrumentation:
12 woodwind/ brass instruments & their humans/ players
-One wine glass 75% full of water
-A bowl 
Score // Method: 
1) The piece begins with the glass player making the glass sing 
2) After 5 seconds of the glass sound group 1 begin to play
3) After 10 seconds of the glass sound group 2 begin
4) After 15 seconds of the glass sound group 3 begins
5) After 20 seconds of the glass sound group 4 begins
6) The glass player must empty some water from the glass into the bowl every 30 seconds
7) The piece ends 30 seconds after the glass has been emptied

Rain Tap Tap Squeak

I composed this piece for my final (ever) undergraduate assignment.
I sometimes record my dreams when I wake up if they're especially strange. In this piece you hear 3 of them from those raw recordings.

Deez Dreamz

This piece was written in memory of my good friend Eimear Noonan who passed away on the 8th of November 2017 RIP. 

It is performed by a group of amazing friends and musicians: Ciara McGarrigle, Mark Calthrop, JJ Riordan, Megan Gallen, Eimear Ryan, Mary Dillon, Alannah Murray, PT Mercier.

Vixen

A sonic representation of ex hurricane Ophelia. 
The following data was taken from Met Éireann’s website and was used as the score:
Rainfall total = 11.5mm
Max Wind Speed = 37knots (12pm)
Air temperature max = 17.4
Air temperature min = 12.7
Mean air temperature = 15.05
Notes also to be used (the date of the storm): 16 8 20 17

Ophelia

Dee Gannon = 5'4" (0.00163 km)
Distance from Earth to Moon (average) = 384,400 km
Number of Dee's it takes to stand head to toe to get to the Moon = 235,828,221

(Thanks to Conor Soltan for the image)

Fly Dee To The Moon

Betelgeuse is 640 light years away, 10 million years old and is the 10th biggest star in the night sky (though it does vary in size from between 700 times to 1,000 bigger than the Sun.)
Notes to be used: 64, 60, 4, 10

Betelgeuse

BAMUS / piano teacher / gamelan gal / composer

Dee Gannon

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