Ed Devane is an experimental musician and instrument builder.
This page is exclusively for demo recordings of Devane's instruments and sound installations. 

For music by Ed check the links below
soundcloud.com/ed-devane
and 
soundcloud.com/withering-zithering

If you have an instrument idea you'd like built, feel free to get in touch.

I am a music maker and designer based in Ireland. I have released broken genre dancefloor tunes on Touchin' Bass, Mantrap Recordings and several other labels over the years. For a long while I concentrated on making abstract ambient / noise music, under my own name and as Withering Zithering. Now when I make time for making music (which is not as regularly as it should be unfortunately) I tend towards making beats. 

Everything I do in one way or another references music or sound as a creative material. I like playing gigs, I like teaching children about how sound works, and I like making instruments that people can make their own music with. 

If you want to book me for a gig, get in touch here or through my website, www.eddevane.com.

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Better than your favourite DJ. 

Production credits, collaborators and remixes include Flying Buttresses, Murli, Spekulativ Fiktion, Post Punk Podge, Citrus Fresh, Percolator, Bullet Club (NewJapanProWrestling), Clerk 5, Vince Mack Mahon/Mongrul, Grandeurs of Delusion, windings, Same D4ence, Ceara Conway, Jinx Lennon, Morning Veils, Young Wonder, Strange Fish, Nanu Nanu, God Knows.


Press

"No one does it like Naive Ted. The masked turntablist and producer is a Dr. Frankenstein of sampling – a creator of monstrous, abrasive hip hop and punk beats who fuses chopped and screwed percussive limbs, grizzly melodies and bass guts to irresistibly heavy effect." (The Quietus, Sept. 19)

"a chaotic but constantly exhilarating listen... have a dig through his formidable back catalog. We promise you, it’s all pure cracked and pure class." (The Thin Air, Sept. 18)

"The highlight of this year’s Open Ear festival was Naive Ted’s wrestling/turntablism / live hybrid assault on the senses late on the Saturday night. Some folk didn’t have a clue what was going on while others were accidentally clocking each other in the back of the head with flailing limbs – it’s just the way it goes sometimes. Death of Me was the finale; a warped, tricky and wholly unique blend of techno, hip-hop and 70’s prog rock." (nialler9.com, Dec. 17)

"....positively bananas, as old-school skratchology (meets) a truly eclectic range of samples before being thrown, full-force, at Steve Reich-esque experimentation and being thoroughly deconstructed accordingly." (Village, Sept. 17)

"From co-founding Galway’s Community Skratch games, being a member of the Vince Mack Mahon scratch super-group to making some seriously innovative music... a cornerstone of Irish hip-hop and electronica for over a decade." (Rabble, Jan. 18)

"The whole thing is an alternative audio riot"
(Nialler9, Album of the week, Irish Times, July 2015)

"No presumptions or fucking around here, just some great samples from all over pop-culture, dextrous turntablism, and a command of crowd control from behind the decks comparable to the luchadors he patterns himself after."
(The Thin Air, Feb. 2015)

"heavyweight beats which smack you around the chops and make you stand up straight before capsizing you all over again"
(Jim Carroll, Songs of the Week, Irish Times, June 2015)

IRIDE PROJECT (Monica MIuccio & Massimo Davi) is a duo that has dedicated itself for years to research electronic music, and radio dramas. In addition to broadcasts of the radio program “Nova” on the Lyric FM of the Irish national radio RTÉ, their works have been performed in Italy, Portugal, Finland, Germany, Mexico, Macedonia, United Kingdom, Czech Republic , Spain, Ecuador and Ireland.
The duo also has several live performances to their credit at the conferences of the Irish Sound Science and Technology Association ISSTA Limerick, at events organized by “Spatial Music Collective SMC” Dublin, ”Association of Irish Composers AIC”, “Phonica” Dublin , “Sonic Dreams” Waterford, “Sonic Arts Waterford SAW”, “Tidal Scratchings” Limerick, “Sonic Vigil” Cork, “Listen At” Dublin, “Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design” Prague and the prestigious “Radiophrenia Glasgow” festival

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