Name: SAMHLAÍOCHT ar Port na bPúcaí by Fergus Johnston
Duration: 6 min 16 s
Description: A Fantasy on a traditional Irish Tune from Inis Mhic Aoibhléan, one of the Blasket Islands.

This is a slightly edited version of the Cork Performance on 12.3 2025 Yukine Kuroki is the pianist. The piece was commissioned by Music Network.

The band Supply Demand and Curve - recorded in a cottage in Enniskerry, County Wicklow, on December 1972. Roger Doyle drums, Jolyon Jackson keyboards, Paddy Finney guitar, whistle and vocals, Brian Masterson bass

Long Pegging Awl

A Fantasy on a traditional Irish Tune from Inis Mhic Aoibhléan, one of the Blasket Islands.

SAMHLAÍOCHT ar Port na bPúcaí

This piece is for two harpsichords. It is from 2006 at the height of my phase of what I think of as hand-knitted algorithmic music. No computers needed in the working out of the pitch or rhythm, just simple numbers. However, the piece is probably too hard for human interpreters, so all there is is this midi realisation. But it is quite diverting so I thought I would place it here.

Cut To Gibbons

Composer; Scores can be purchased at https://www.c21musicandevents.eu and at https://www.babelscores.com/FergusJohnston Fergus Johnston gratefully acknowledges the support of An Chomhairle Ealaíon (the Arts Council of Ireland) and Aosdána. If you would  like to support my work, you can make a donation according to your own perceived value of what you have heard, at https://www.paypal.me/fergusjohnstonartsad .

SAMHLAÍOCHT ar Port na bPúcaí

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