Captain Swing

Written by Ben Maier.  

Produced by John D'Arcy.

Featuring the voices of Patrick FitzSymons, Ben Maier, Nick Boyle, Bronagh McCrudden, Jack Geary and Chris McCurry.

Fiddle by Kevin McCullagh, Mandolin by Eamon Byers, Percussion by Michael Speers.

Captain Swing

Composed from recordings of wasted sound energy in the home.  

Energy Efficient

Radio documentary set in Derry, Northern Ireland

A radiophonic trip through the early years of Bob Dylan's career, tuning in to some of his influences and those he influenced.  Composed for live performance with radio at the Dylan-themed Literary Lunchtime at Belfast's Ulster Hall, 19 March 2014.

Turn Your Radio On

Excerpt from Self Preservation - a work for voices that uses verbal scores to guide improvisation around lyrics taken from Proverbs in the Oxford Library of Words and Phrases.

Performed by Nuala Davies, Clara Kane, Kieran Coyle, Eimear Coyle, Niall Doherty, Cheylene Murphy, Richard Bailie, Ryan McGroarty, and John D'Arcy.

Recorded in 5-channel surround and stereo by Ryan McGroarty.

Self Preservation (Excerpt)

Voices of Cathedral Quarter, Belfast 2011

John D'Arcy - Dynamic Neglect

Flamingos

Choir teacher Hilary gets threatened with no Golden Time.  From recording session with Harmony Hill Primary School Choir

No Golden Time?

Tenori

Lisburn Birds, 4am

Beckett Basement is a sound installation running throughout the basement of National Trust estate Castle Coole in Enniskillen Co. Fermanagh.  

Servant Hall (from the Beckett Basement)

John D’Arcy is an artist from Lisburn, Northern Ireland.   His work explores the relationships between voice, text and place in radio, installation and live performance settings.  He is currently based at the Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen's University Belfast.

John D'Arcy

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