I make music with clarinets and saxophones and electronics and people. Full information at www.seanmacerlaine.com

Danny Diamond is a musician and researcher with a background in Irish traditional/folk music, currently based between Minneapolis, USA and Dublin, Ireland. Let Fly, Danny's new album of traditional fiddle tunes with accompaniment from multi-instrumentalist Brian Miller, launches February 2021.

Other ongong projects include: postgraduate research with The Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics at The Data Science Institute, NUI Glaway, analysing European folk music collections as part of the EU Polifonia research project; and online teaching of Irish fiddle repertoire and technique with The Center for Irish Music.

Born in Belfast into a cross-community family with deep roots in traditional music, Danny spent his formative years learning, playing and performing at festivals and sessions around Ireland. Later he was heavily involved in the Dublin music scene as a performer, archivist and sound engineer, playing a key supporting role at the inception of the ongoing folk revival in Ireland. In recent years Danny has toured internationally, creating and performing collaborative projects with writers, dance companies and visual artists.

Past work includes: fiddle player, Music Co-Ordinator and co-creator of the score for Teac Damsa’s multi award-winning dance theatre show Swan Lake /Loch na hEala (2016-); fiddle player with the bands Slow Moving Clouds (2014-2018) and Mórga (2007-2016); Field Recordings Officer with the Irish Traditional Music Archive (2006-2016).

Other notable projects include the solo recordings Fiddle Music (2014) and Elbow Room (2017), fiddle duo album NORTH (2016, with Conor Caldwell), and What To Bring When We Leave (2018), a collaborative performance project with poet Tom French, produced by Solstice Arts Centre.

Recording engineer/producer credits include: Lankum's Cold Old Fire (2014); Mórga's For the Sake of Auld Decency (2013)

Pingustan spielt verwirrende Musik aus dem Land der verirrten Pinguine - mit Blasinstrumenten, Percussion und Gesang in vielen Sprachen.

The Sunken Hum Sound Diary: a field recording/sound archive project in 365 parts.

Each and everyday in 2013, I recorded two minutes of sounds from my daily life.  And then, for 365 days in a row, I published the sounds to the internet to share with the world.  


I embarked on this phonographic archive with a voyeuristic curiosity that stemmed from a fascination with how humans  routinely spend their time and with an intrigue into the regular, recurring noises that makes up the soundscape of life. I figured the easiest way to satiate this curiosity was by dissecting my own typical day and doumenting the sounds that routinely weave themselves through my surroundings.  The diary includes everything from solitary chickens singing laments to cattlemart auctioneers chanting the call of farm life to potatoes rumbling as they boxxed in the boiling hot waterpot.  A selection from these daily recordings are shared here.

Capturing the recordings became a meditative practice.  No matter what the chaos of life that was happening around me, for two minutes I could escape into a reality reimagined through headphones.  It was like a peculiar removal from the existing moment.  While the sound of the world became heightened (and nearly more alive) through the headphones, I felt simultaneously disconnected from the present, having become more an observer than a participant.  

In 2019, dublin digital radio (ddr) rebroadcast the diary recordings at 12 pm and 6 pm everyday.  These are the same times at which the Angelus Bell is played for one minute on Irish radio. This is a religious broadcast.  Though I love the idea behind the Angelus (a minute long sound meditation), it is time to separate this meditative moment from anything to do with organised religion.  Instead, I'd love to suggest that we give that moment over to the field recordists of Ireland and let them create a daily one minute broadcast that features the myriad of meditative sounds of the island.  Come on RTE, sure why not?!

Experimental songwriting project from Berlin brings together fragile melodies, charming horns and performative compositions. // Experimentelles Songwritingprojekt aus Berlin verbindet fragile Melodien mit bezaubernden Bläsern und performativen Kompositionen.

trumpet guitar banjo percussions objects voice piano performance

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