Contemporary Music Centre - Composer's Symposium. University College Cork, Ireland.

composed by: Meadhbh Boyd (pronounced Maeve)
performed by: MB (piano), Katie Runde (sop sax), Roisin McMullin (violin)


Work in Prozac is a piece about your mind, and the messed-up potential it has. Imagine being paranoid over a detail, and what that might sound like. In counterpoint to that, imagine the calming voice telling you "it's not as bad as you think". Chugging rhythmic motifs, sinister melodies and dissonance - the piece is unsettled, twitchy, even -  blended with lyrical phrasing and grooves - a nod to modern dance music. The piece was only performed live once to an audience in 2007 and has never been broadcast to date. 

Contemporary Music Centre - Composer's Symposium. Meadhbh Boyd: Work in Prozac

Young Womanhood

Song Of Your Own

What You Could Do Is (Your  Friend)

Kissing Boys

The Myth

Sweetness and light and dark. Decaying chords. Ambient.

Keep Looking Around

"absent-minded doodling meets laser-guided musical precision"
Rhodri Marsden

Boyd Hendrie