Owen Kilfeather - vocals, synthesizers, electric guitars, sampling, programming, percussion

Composed by Owen Kilfeather. Recorded by Daniel Bannon at Electric Eye, Sligo, Ireland, between August 20, 2018 and July 20, 2019. Mixed by Daniel Bannon. Mastered by Richard Dowling at Wav Mastering, Limerick, Ireland.

Artwork by Louis Anebac and Owen Kilfeather.

Produced by Kilfeather and Bannon.

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Ilona Schneider: narrator
Owen Kilfeather: electric guitar, sampling

Composed, executed and recorded by Owen Kilfeather at RF Mataplumas, Sligo, Ireland, in late December 2018. Text after the Philip K Dick short story "The Electric Ant" and the samples derived from the Symphony For a Broken Orchestra sound library, that glorious collaboration with Found Sound Nation by which Philadelphian musicians were invited to improvise upon a range of damaged but not mortally wounded instruments. Tape manipulations courtesy of Ross Birdwise's sample archive at freesound.org.

Mixed by Cian Hamilton. Mastered by Richard Dowling at Wav Mastering, Limerick, Ireland.

Thanks to Marcoesteves de Mouracampos and Andreas Dunst for spiffing up my rickety German, David Fahey, Eugene Martynec, and Mat Ward of No Mates Ensemble for slinging the sound library on down the road.

Scannen Sie mich, bitte!
Optisch
Öffnen Sie den Aufklappdeckel
Wieviele Wirklichkeiten sehen Sie?
Und apropos: warum ist meine rechte Hand so polimerisch?

Muß ich mich selbst deaktivieren?
Und wieviel würde meinen Besitzer das kosten?
Eine Rolle Lochstreifen sitzt auf meinem Herz-Mechanismus
Ein Wirklichkeitsversorgungskonstrukt
Alles was ich muß ist den streifen umzureißen...

Riskant, vielleicht terminal
Falls ich das Band schneide,
Spult sich meine Welt auf.

Will ich an dem Realitätsband herumpfuschen?
Warum sollte ich an dem Realitätsband herumpfuschen?
Gelocht bedeutet Ja
Nicht gelocht bedeutet Nein.
Soll ich Reize der Zukunft löschen?

Es gibt nur Wind
Keine Geräusche
Was habe ich übermalen?
Bäume? Drohnen? Subalternoffiziere?
Sollte es hier eine Nase geben?

Ich habe einen Zwischenraum im Fluß meiner Realität gespließt
Ich habe nichts womit ich greifen kann
Es gibt nichts zu greifen
Der Mechanismus ist zu seinem Ende gekommen
Hier ist die Möglichkeit alles gleichzeitig zu erleben
Eine Symphonie in meinem Kopf außerhalb der Zeit
Es könnte mich durchbrennen
Aber das Gebot der Stunde: eine Tasse Kaffee.

Die Zeit, ich kann ihren Fluß umkehren
Tinte fließt von der Seite in den Stift und löst sich in Kohlenstoffpartikeln aus
Absolute Realität für eine Nanosekunde
Nur ein Augenblick
Dann wird alles bekannt.
Falls ich das Band schneide, wo werde ich sein?
Überall? Nirgendwo? Beides?
Na los!

Ich bin am Leben
Ich bin am Leben gewesen
Ich war noch nie am Leben.

Lochstreifensfantasie

Created by Owen Kilfeather for Sofia Records' Waxing compilation of work written and recorded entirely under the BLACK MOON Supermoon on the night of 30/31 August 2019.

Artwork made by Queen Jane O'Sullivan on the night.

A Black Moon is when two new moons occur in the same month.

https://sofiarecords.bandcamp.com/album/black-moon-waxing

Black Moon Micropiece III

Created by Owen Kilfeather for Sofia Records' Waning compilation of work written and recorded entirely under the BLACK MOON Supermoon on the night of 30/31 August 2019.

Artwork made by Queen Jane O'Sullivan on the night.

A Black Moon is when two new moons occur in the same month.

https://sofiarecords.bandcamp.com/album/black-moon-waning

Black Moon Micropiece I

Composed, recorded and executed by Owen Kilfeather at RF Mataplumas, Sligo, Ireland, July 2019.

sinecure

A sound walk composition specific to Sligo town for Culture Night 2020. Starting at the mural of the wolf in Stephen Street car park (X marks the spot), walk the route around Sligo town at a leisurely pace (for example, from the starting point to the other side of the footbridge should take you approximately two minutes).

music for device possessed of speaker w/ wattage of transistor radio dangled off bike handle c.1950s

Drone piece (2 recorders, 4 synthesizers, 8 electric guitars & sampler) for David Fahey's installation of the same name.

Composed, executed and recorded by Owen Kilfeather at RF Mataplumas, Sligo, Ireland, between August 2019 and February 2020. Mixed and mastered by Cian Hamilton.

a line of divide

Score for a film collaboration with visual and performance artist Nic Flanagan, the performance employing Irish mythology as a means of engaging with and recontextualising folkloric dialogue in contemporary thought - specifically, the Hag of Bhéara, the ‘Queen of Winter’, a seasonal spirit whose stories are rich in humour, humanity and conflict.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WGB-hqV5Xs&feature=youtu.be&t=14s

Composed by Owen Kilfeather to a parallel score by Nic Flanagan. Recorded, mixed and mastered by Daniel Bannon at The Model, Sligo, Ireland, 23-24 October 2020.

Photography by Jannik Pietzsch.

Special thanks to The Model and Creative Ireland.

Má Deirim

Agitprop avant-punk. Brutalist treatment of beautiful chords. Fun. Unserious. Quality irritainment.

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