Name: Firma | Foundation by Mark Vaughn
Duration: 9 min 7 s
Description: This is a recording of the premiere of this piece. This work is constructed entirely from well-known works in the repertoire of organ music. Composed for the 2019-2020 AGO Student Commission program.

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

Cadenza   (2011)

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

This is a recording of the premiere of this piece. This work is constructed entirely from well-known works in the repertoire of organ music. Composed for the 2019-2020 AGO Student Commission program.

Firma | Foundation

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.

Firma | Foundation

Mark Vaughn

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