Jigs: Hag at the Churn / Trip to Teulada / The Shoemaker 

Driminidy Trilogy

A collection of  Sound Art recordings. Made in Cork, Ireland, by Brian Leach.

1)Intro (in Plausible Stereo)

2)Glitch Section
This was an offshoot from a pieces made for HearSay Audio Arts Festival 2015, where a blind folded audience was treated to a beer tasting accompanied by sound. The sharp, high sounds lent a more crisp, fresh taste to the beer. While squelchy, bassy sounds gave more richness and depth to the flavour.

3)Synth Drone
An improvisation on a "synthesizer guitar". I built this instrument for a piece called "The Uncooperative Cooperator", which toured the UK and Ireland in 2019. In that piece it was accompanied by sonified plant data, brain waves, and live MaxMSP manipulation. Here, it is heard solo.

4)Computer Cake (Plato on Venus)
An unsettling composition, based on the idea of cognitive dissonance. Rising Shepard tones and sonified spectrographs made an eerie background for digital melodies and percussion. Improvisation on analogue synthesizer creates a broad range of sounds. The synth used is the CSM1000 which I built in 2012.

5)Synth Guitar
I modified an electric guitar, for Jesse Hallaway in 2012, to contain an analogue synthesizer.  Extra knobs and switches give it a huge range of oscillations, from metronome BPMs to super sonics. Retaining the function of a guitar allows for great artistic expression!

Guitar Synth

Synth Drone

Glitch Section

Intro (In Plausible Stereo!)

My best Liam Clancy impression:)
Including Aran sweater and cheeky wink.

The song, also know as The Whistling Gypsy, was written by Leo Maguire.

©Brian Leach 2019

Gypsy Rover

Traditional Irish tune on the Uilleann pipes

John Murphy's Polka

A few Irish jigs for ye. 
Bill Harte's (Trad) 
Better Text Zoe(Brian Leach)
The Hag at the Churn(Trad)

Better Text Zoe Set

Garvey Set

A jig I learned from a record by Na Filí recorded in 1978. I believe it's called McGillarney's.

Na Filí Jig

The Rainy Day Hornpipe, recorded on a rainy day in Cork.
April 2020

The Rainy Day

March of the Clans and The Old Bush. Ar na Píoba
April 2020

March of The Clans

Performed live at Zolala Cork. This Sound art/Dance performance by Brian Leach, Jesse Hallaway, and Abigail Russell uses a modified guitar synthesizer, Ciruitbent Tape recorded, numberstations, and satellite dish.

Tape recording of the Apollo Space Program, and the Uilleann pipes are featured.

© Brian Leach 2019

Artonauts - Zolala

A solo improvisation on a guitar that I built a Synthesiser into. The synth used NAND gate oscillators using a range of 1Hz to 10kHz and was designed by me to fit into the body of the guitar.

© Brian Leach 2019

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