Luigi Ceccarelli - Cadenza - 2011 - per suoni elaborati di violino e contrabbasso - riduzione stereo da 5.1

Cadenza   (2011)

This work continues a fascination I have with the metaphorical and aesthetic implications of the fiber arts and their application to music. For me, when I consider what the concept of fabric means artistically and metaphorically, my thoughts often branch off into far-reaching and highly varied areas of thought and possibility, while also maintaining a sense of cohesion and connectedness. Sometimes the dynamics of fabric seem to express the dynamics of consciousness. 

With that in mind, three impressions came to mind while composing this piece. 1) a bundle of tangled clothes left on a beach, 2) the idea that clothing is a form of shelter, and 3) the sound of clothes being folded and dropped in a small room.

Fabric, Sand, Text, And Tile

On My Mind

On 25th May Ireland will vote on amending its restrictive abortion laws. I was asked by Room for Rebellion and C.A.N.V.A.S. to create a piece for a compilation in aid of pro-choice charities to be released prior to the referendum. For logistical reasons this compilation won’t be released until later in the year, so I’ve decided to share the piece now, a week away from the referendum.

If you’re an Irish citizen or resident, please donate to Together for Yes:
https://www.togetherforyes.ie/donate/
If you’re not an Irish citizen or resident, please donate to Abortion Support Network or Alliance for Choice: https://www.asn.org.uk  http://www.alliance4choice.com/donate-2/

ABOUT THE PIECE:

“I am an old woman now, with one foot in the grave and the other on its edge.” 

Like most people of my generation, I studied the work of Peig Sayers (1873-1958) at school and the opening lines of her 1936 autobiography "Peig" are burned into my consciousness. "Peg 2018" takes those opening lines as a starting point, but departs immediately from the original, imagining the reflections of an entirely different, fictional Peg, an Irishwoman born in the 1950s. 

NOTE: The piece in no way represents the views of Peig Sayers or her descendants.
CONTENT ADVISORY: Material may be distressing for some listeners.

Image: Gustave Courbet's Jo, the Beautiful Irish Girl

Peg 2018

O’Brien Industries’ Radiophonic© series are available in a wide variety of formats, from CDs for the radio presenter to LPs for the professional DJ. The In TimeTM collection continues O’Brien Industries’ exploration of guerrilla- style recording, in this case using obsolete spy technologies bought wholesale from Cold War suppliers to record the latent dynamics of social situations in present-day Ireland. In a 3© features two fortune-tellers reading the same palm, strangely concurring and disagreeing, unfurling meaning and subterfuge, guess-work and fact. 

"In a 3" by O'Brien Industries

Biophilia is a paean to a verdant remnant of a once wild place surrounded by an encroaching spill of housing developments and fracking plants. I created this work as an experience of immersive being - being at the nexus between worlds. Two worlds that have a very different sense of time - an evocation of the state of Time Dilation where one’s experience of the passing of time slows to the point of an infinite now.

Biophilia

Composer and sound artist based in Texas.

Fabric, Sand, Text, And Tile

Mark Vaughn

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