Eden Lonsdale is a composer from Berlin (Germany) and a participant in the 5th International Young Composers Academy in Ticino. 

Eden Lonsdale studied composition at the Guildhall School of Music with Malcolm Singer, Cassandra Miller, Julian Anderson, and the Kunstuniversität Graz with Klaus Lang. Eden is fascinated by the never-ending depth of experience that can be discovered within a single sound. This reflects in his often slow or static pieces, whose focused sound-worlds invite the ear to lose itself within them. 

‘’The Roar of the World’’ takes as its starting point the sound of the cello. Amplified to make even its quietest details clearly audible, we begin to discover ever deeper layers as a new world of sound lays itself bare from within. The other instruments in the ensemble pick up individual aspects of the cello’s sound and extend them in their own ways, giving subtle dimension to the sonic landscape and bringing to the foreground its most remote corners. In this sense, the music piece functions as a sort of sonic microscope, zooming deep into different details of the same sound and discovering within them a shifting sense of dimension and time.

Eden Lonsdale (Germany 1996): The Roar Of The World

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https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/the-astronauts-last-polaroid-bc089

Almost 5 years to the day since his Bricolage debut, "Imitation of Faith", the prolific Belial Pelegrim returns with his latest musical escapade, "The Astronaut's Last Polaroid", and t's a very special one indeed.

This album tells the story of Jack Hawthorne. A 68 year old former NASA astronaut that is now grappling with the onset of Alzheimer's disease. Once celebrated for his groundbreaking lunar missions, Jack now finds himself lost in the uncharted territory of his fading mind.

Alzheimer's disease is a subject that is no doubt close to the hearts of a lot of people and it's a subject that Belial has carefully mapped out with the utmost respect.

The music itself is 15 tracks of lucid and harmonic experimental soundscapes that set a transient stage for what feels like a dark yet beautiful dream. There's a tinge of anxiety laced throughout as you would expect with such a theme but it never becomes foreboding. It's more like giant swirls of memories and relics of the past that drift in and out of view.

Belial expertly maps out the journey through hypnagogic tones that resonate with the heart and mind. Fleeting glimpses of rhythmic patterns, flashes of brooding strings and sprinkles of melodic dust. Taking us on a trip through not only Jack's consciousness but also our own. The depth and emotion that burrows its way into each track is of grandiose proportions. At times it feels like we're witnessing a one man orchestra as we traverse through various realms of classical, glitch. ambient and electronica. A reverie of sonic tapestry.

"The Astronaut's Last Polaroid" serves as a woozy yet visceral reminder that time is not always on our side when it comes to memory but also that the mind is a beautiful place regardless.

The Astronaut's Last Polaroid (bc089)

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Belial Pelegrim - Astral Cartographer (from "The Astronaut's Last Polaroid" album)

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First upload of 2017, have a great one folks. Shout out to Drew again for the share.

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Written in collaboration with choreographer Sam Tyson. Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsNP3yJ7gOU

Seven Dance Rituals

vital words I have compiled from POC & activists from Black Lives Matter & End Direct Provision in solidarity with anti-racism efforts.
This isn’t just an American issue, so don’t be deluded. Ireland & every other country still experiences rampant racism. Too much of it is just dismissed as banter or a joke.

Words from the following in the order you hear + Twitter handles:

Throughout - the people of Dublin in protest
Yan Takuz Racism in Ireland
@BlibriJane - Jane Elliott - anti-racism activist
Amanda Adé
Layla F. Saad - Author of Me and White Supremacy - words on white Supremacy
@1misscruz  
@IjeomaOluo - author of So You Want to Talk About Race -  how we define violence
Diane speaking on @AbolishDirect
@EmmaDabiri - Emma Dabiri - Irish-Nigerian, London based writer of Don’t Touch My Hair
@ItsEricaCody - Leoness Princess - singer-songwriter-producer
Marking 15 years of Direct Provision: Ireland's inhumane asylum seeker system @masi_asylum
Lives in Limbo: Life inside Direct Provision - The Irish times
@BulelaniMfaco spokesperson for Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland (MASI)
@elliekisyombe1 // @OURTABLEDUBLIN  - Highlighting the need to end Direct Provision in Ireland, through conversation over food
South African/Irish activist Lucky Khambule - MASI repost - conditions in Direct Provision
2018 Dublin Pride - @BulelaniMfaco on being LGBTQ and an Asylum Seeker @BlackPrideIre
Evgeny Shtorn delivers powerful speech calling for an end to Direct Provision
@renireni Reni Eddo-Lodge is a British author of the book 'Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race'  
@theboy_finn -  calls out Versatile for their racism, homophobia and misogyny
@RealJyellowL Yellow Man speaking on RTE2fm
Singer-songwriter Sallay Garnett aka Loah twitter: @musicbyloah - What we can do in Ireland  
@akalamusic - Everyday racism: what should we do? Akala
@BlibriJane - Jane Elliott - anti-racism activist - White power in America
@QueenieBee618 - Poems from Reeta - Blame me & If it were me

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These voices MUST be heard!

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council and Music Network announced the appointment of the chamber group Ikigai as the third Musicians-in-Residence for 2020 back in September. During their residency, Ikigai explored material which has inspired them as a group, whilst also working on their own individual compositions.

Their performance will showcase the trio’s diverse musical interests, and will feature exciting new work alongside unique interpretations of existing material.

More about Ikigai:

Ikigai members Andrew Sheeran, Gabrielė Dikčiūtė and Maja Elliott’s musical careers have been inspired by a wide range of styles from classical and Baroque music to indie-rock, folk and experimental genres.

As members of the contemporary chamber ensemble Glasshouse, Andrew and Gabrielė have performed pieces by indie-folk artists such as Sufjan Stevens and Bon Iver as well as by minimalist composers such as Max Richter, Johann Johannson and Olafur Arnalds.

Influenced by the creative experiences of collaborating with musicians from a range of different musical genres, Andrew and Gabrielė came together with jazz pianist and European folk singer Maja Elliott to form Ikigai.

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Aran O' Grady

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