The first in a series of pieces that aim to illustrate the versatility of me as a composer. For these short pieces I am imagining the context of a film/commercial.

I hope you enjoy the piece. 

All music performed by Chris McCann 

Library Series (Evening Lounge)

Played by the Fidelio Trio, Kevin Barry Room, NCH Dublin, 12/04/2015.

I Am Vertical / But I would rather be horizontal

We discuss self-taught composers, music education, and how this affects our composition. Apologies about the low levels!

Episode 7 - Self-taught Composers

This recording demonstrates what any obsessive knows: how many memories can be held within a single moment on one track from one record, and how much influence that can have on one’s own musical identity. The piece acts as a meta-text, revealing various layers to the act of listening.  

Graham and I met aged 18, in the first few days of us both beginning a music degree at the University of Manchester. There’s a chance we were both even geekier then than we are now. We haven’t really stopped talking about music since. It turns out that I’m quite rude when I’m excitable - sorry to interrupt you so much, mate.

Duration of full piece: 12 mins 30 seconds.

"We are listening to two guys talking about something that they love as they listen to it, and we therefore become rapidly complicit in their act of listening. We are simultaneously listening to them, and listening at one remove to what they are listening to. But of course our entire listening experience is also framed by the fact that this is a piece, a work. We are sitting in a performance space listening to a piece of soundscape, sonic art, electroacoustic composition, documentary—which of these is as yet unclear. There’s a sense in which, initially, we are simultaneously in the place of the performance, yet unsure of where we are, or of the status or mode of our listening, without this being in any sense uncomfortable or disorientating. Compositionally then, the piece is already addressing the different ways in which we habitually listen."

Simon Waters (2015) 'Tullis Rennie's Muscle Memory: Listening to the Act of Listening', Contemporary Music Review, 34:1, 22-32.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07494467.2015.1077563

Muscle Memory

Muscle Memory with Graham South (trumpet) *excerpt*

Ep. 1 Pilot - The Multiverse

Ep. 2 - Clarity (an installation inspired by and through meditation)

Ep. 3 Celestial Strings & Sewing Machines (A discussion with Myrid Carten)

Trson/Vakari - Focal

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Chris McCann is a multifaceted composer/performer based in Belfast. He is currently working towards a PhD in composition at The Sonic Arts Research Centre (part of Queens University), within which he is exploring spatial and orientational aspects in instrumental and electroacoustic music. Chris plays drum kit and percussion for the QUBe Ensemble at Queens University and for emerging Belfast-based artist, Jess Edlin. Outside of university Chris composes film music and produces electronica. 

Library Series (Evening Lounge)

Chris McCann

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