Song (in) Books

Starving Dog Eats OAP Alive

Music performed by Roddy O'Keefe and Éilís O'Sullivan

Music For Helen

Jürgen Schmidt from the Astronomische Verein Dortmund was invited to give a talk about the possibility of projecting a film onto the Moon so that it can be viewed from Earth; as though the Moon is a cinema screen for the Earth. Schmidt had a handheld microphone and gave talk while walking around the room. The audience were seated around him. At several points during his talk he invited audience members to look through a telescope that was positioned to focus on an image of the moon. Schmidt's microphone was be connected to a laptop running a piece of software that gives his voice a 3-second delay, making it challenging for him to speak. I performed as a director and amateur DJ (referencing Allan Kaprow's role in Stockhausen's Originale (1961)), playing Schmidt's vinyl record collection on two turntables to create a soundtrack. During Schmidt's talk the lighting in the space cycled through the colours red, green and blue.

Andy Ingamells is a composer-performer of experimental new music. Following his 6-hour looped re-creation of Nam June Paik's piano striptease Sonata Quasi Una Fantasia (Cork/London 2022) he conceived a new work taking inspiration from Paik's unrealised ambition to use the Moon as a TV screen for the Earth. This performance was made in collaboration with the Astronomische Verein Dortmund and featured a scientific talk alongside a DJ performance using vinyl sourced from Dortmund's astronomical enthusiast community. It invited the audience to look both outwards towards the heavens and inwards into Paik's extraordinary imagination.

A sinfonie and its parts – part iiii (excerpt)

performed by Kate O’Shea and Katherine Hunka

I originally composed this piece on 6th October 2009 for piano, using a set of dice to determine the sequence of pitches and rhythms, with the parts being in contrary motion with each other. I arranged it for violin duet in 2024. 

6th October 2009 was the same day that Manhattan Records released 'The List', the twelfth studio album by singer Rosanne Cash, with song selections culled from a list of 100 titles that her father compiled and gave her when she decided to pursue a career in music. It was also the day that Scottish-born Canadian actor Douglas Campbell (b. 1922) died and Ceann Comhairle John O'Donoghue announced his resignation following a scandal over his expenses claims. 

It was a Tuesday.


6th October 2009

Readymade: No. 4

Worse than nothing

Performed live by Decibel Ensemble In Birmingham in 2010. Saxophone, viola, tam-tam, electric guitar, piano.

Terry's Missus: I want a divorce

Readymade: No. 4.2

Never stop watching TV for ever and ever

Punk Rock Your My Big Crybaby

Knock-knock

Starring Forafall Towait

Composer-performer of all sorts.
Also https://soundcloud.com/andyingamellsmusic.

Andy Ingamells

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