Recorded with a pair of High End Contact Mics on Sound Devices 702 Recorder.

Dundalk Wind Turbine recorded with Contact Mics

Performed by Heather Roche and Eva Zöllner.

Double Dubbing(firefly Song) (2020) for accordion, clarinet and 16 piezo buzzers.

Humming To The Burning Land

live recording from Gen X Festival April 24th 2022, Walt Disney Hall, LA
Voice: Catherine Brookman
Alarm Will Sound
Conductor: Alan Pierson

Recorded and mastered by Daniel Neumann

text: 
1. Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.
2. Art-as-Art. Art from Art. Art on Art. Art of Art. Art for Art. Art beyond Art. Artless artifice.
13. Forms into uniform and formlessness. Style as recurrence.
14. Light as reappearance,dullness. Color as black, empty.
16. Verticality and horizontality, rectilineartity, parallelsim, stasis.
17. Outlines, monotones, blankness, quiescence, premeditation.
19. Matter only to the mind.
20. The strictest formula for the freest artistic freedom.
21. The easiest routine to the difficulty.
22. The most common mean to the most common end.
23. The extremely impersonal way for the truly personal.
24. The completest control for the purest spontaneity.
25. The most universal path to the most unique. And vice-versa.

From “25 Lines of Words on Art Statement” by Ad Reinhardt (permission to use text kindly granted by the Reinhardt estate)

music for people who like art (filmed/recorded at Walt Disney Hall, courtesy of LA Phil)

Artificial Blissful State (2016) for Baritone Saxophone and Electronics

Baritone Sax - Ian Finlay

Artificial Blissful State is a commentary on the rise of AI (artificial intelligence) within our daily lives. From voice-activated personal assistants on our mobile devices to home assistants, self-driving vehicles to online stores tracking our browsing history in an effort to ‘suggest’ things that might be of interest to us based on search terms and past transactions. 
Here an aggressive electronic track drives forward, unrelenting, unflinching, a steady pulse against which the saxophone plays their role, sometimes irregular and jarring, pushing against the tide of ‘progress’, sometimes slotting into place with ease, but never stemming the technological flow.

Artificial Blissful State (Baritone Sax and Electronics)

Overstrung by Donnacha Dennehy, for acoustic violin and electronic backing track

Overstrung_PSK

Overstrung

Lyrics are taken from an excerpt from 'The Red Tent' by Anita Diamant.
This is a vocal exploration of non-human sounds in an operatic context.

Inanna

Artists:

Iarla Ó'Lionáird, voice
Crash Ensemble
Linda Buckley, electronics

Released 25 September 2020

From Ocean's Floor

Ó Íochtar Mara: I Fil Duine (Gráinne speaks of Diarmuit)

Linda Buckley: Ó Íochtar Mara: I Fil Duine (Gráinne speaks of Diarmuit)(extract)

Improvisation On Viola With not Tape

Live performance of Gérard Grisey's 'Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil' (1997-8). Performed with SPECTRA Ensemble, conducted by Filip Rathé, on 20 September 2020 at Theater aan het Vrijthof for Festival Musica Sacra Maastricht; recorded by L1. 

www.spectraensemble.com

Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil

GÉRARD GRISEY Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil

Jonathan Nangle is a composer whose work explores many diverse fields ranging from notated acoustic and electro-acoustic composition, through live and spatially distributed electronics, to video, field recording, interactive sound installation and electronic improvisation.

A graduate of Trinity College Dublin, he studied composition under Donnacha Dennehy and Rob Canning and Electro-Acoustic composition with Roger Doyle. Since 2008 he has continued to study privately with composer Kevin Volans.

His work has been commissioned and performed internationally by, amongst others, the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Crash Ensemble, Ensemble Scratch the Surface, The Dublin Guitar Quartet, The Chatham Saxophone Quartet, Ergodos Orchestra, New Dublin Voices, Irish Youth Choir, the Spatial Music Collective, violinist Darragh Morgan and pianist Thérèse Fahy.

He has represented Ireland twice at the International Rostrum of Composers. First in 2009 where his work ‘our headlights blew softly into the black, illuminating very little’ was awarded a commendation and again in 2011 with his first orchestral piece ‘now is night come quietly’.

His work has been released by the Ergodos, Diatribe, RTÉ Lyric FM, Contemporary Music Centre Ireland and Metier Divine Art Record Labels, featured at numerous festivals, been choreographed for film and stage, and has been broadcast internationally both on radio and television.

His debut album ‘Pause’ featuring works for combinations of strings and electronics, performed by Crash Ensemble, will be released in July 2017 on the Ergodos label.

Jonathan is a lecturer in Music Technology and Electro-Acoustic Composition at the Royal Irish Academy of Music.

Artificial Blissful State (Baritone Sax and Electronics)

JNangle

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