For Prepared Piano, Violin and Cello

Commissioned by Ensemble Cross.Art for II Bienal Música Hoje in Curitiba, Brazil in August 2013.

This is a home-made, sample-based, short demo excerpt. A proper live recording will follow soon.

Mantle (2013) demo excerpt (live recording to follow soon)

Several fragmented demo recordings from a work-in-progress for chamber ensemble. 

Texture Fragments from a Work for Chamber Ensemble (2014)

Springer (2014)

For solo cello.

Performed by Céline Papion at Aldo van den Broek's "Palimpsest Tbilisi" exhibition in Galerie Ron Mandos(Amsterdam), Potsdamer Strasse 81C, 10785 Berlin, Germany.

Tampered (2014) - live performance micro-excerpts

For solo cello.

Performed by Céline Papion. Recorded by Paul McGuire in Stuttgart (October 2014). Mixed by Paul McGuire. 

Copyright © Paul McGuire 2014.

Tampered (2014) performed by Céline Papion

Paul McGuire

For Electric Guitar, 7 Loop Pedals and 3 Samplers (Loop Pedals and Samplers are operated by an additional player or “engineer”, or an automatic Max MSP patch)

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Concentric

Paul McGuire

For Electric Guitar, Piano and String Quartet

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Badlands

For percussion duet.

Performed, produced and mixed by Paul McGuire (London, 2015). Featured on the album 'Sleep Spindles' [SLP013] released with Slip.

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Sleep Spindles (2014)

Gravel (2015) demo recording

Paul McGuire

For two Electric Guitars and Sampler

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A Treehouse Miniature (2011)

For percussion quartet (2 prepared floor toms and 2 prepared acoustic guitars)

Percussion Quartet (2015)

For Prepared Piano and Percussion (Prepared Floor Tom and Claves). The recording was generated using hundreds of homemade samples, hence the garnishes of pink noise.

Foundry (2012)

For 6 Electric Guitars, 6 Acoustic Guitars and 2 Acoustic Bass Guitars

Awarded 1st prize for the “Pablo Wendel – Performance Electrics” International Composition Competition in 2013.

Conducted by Helmut Oesterreich and performed by Open Source Guitars. Recorded live in Musichochschule Trossingen, Germany in April 2013.

Marshes - Performed by Helmut Oesterriech and OSG

"McGuire's vision is convincing and his craft accomplished" 
– Liam Cagney, TEMPO: A Quarterly Review of New Music

"... rather marvellous... Clearly a composer to keep an eye on for the future" 
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Paul McGuire (b. 1988) is a Dublin-born composer, sound designer and producer based in London. He is principally interested in noise and the timbral exploration of sound rather than in melodic, harmonic or rhythmic expression, and the musical material in his work is created through the complete re-imagining of instrumental performance practice.

Paul earned a B.A. (Hons.) in Music from Trinity College Dublin, where he specialised in composition under Donnacha Dennehy and Sean Reed. He recently completed a PhD in "Composing with an Expanded Instrumental Palette" with Jennifer Walshe and Christopher Fox at Brunel University London, funded by the 2012 Elizabeth Maconchy Composition Fellowship Award.

Paul has received international recognition for his music. In 2015, he was awarded the George Butterworth Prize for his chamber work Panels, and in 2013 he won the Pablo Wendel – Performance Electrics International Composition Competition for his piece Marshes, written for mass guitar ensemble. His music has been performed at international festivals including Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (UK), SPOR (Denmark), Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival (USA) and II Bienal Música Hoje (Brazil). He has collaborated with a number of established ensembles including London Sinfonietta, Ensemble Cross.Art, Open Source Guitars, and leading soloists Céline Papion, Sarah Nicolls and Loré Lixenberg.

In 2015, Paul released his debut album SLEEP SPINDLES on the London/Berlin-based Slip imprint. His piece Panels also features on NMC/Sound and Music's NEXT WAVE album, released in 2014.

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