Heresy

The Earth Turns (from the opera HERESY)

To the memory, and in honour of Jonathan Philbin Bowman, who left this message on my answering machine in 1989, and around which I composed this music in 2010.

Coat-hanger Kisses

Words by James Joyce; music and studio production by Roger Doyle © PRS; spoken by Barry McGovern

Finnegans Wake -Suite Of Affections Vol 2

And Since We Are Talking

Words by James Joyce; music and studio production by Roger Doyle © PRS; spoken by Barry McGovern.

Finnegans Wake - Suite Of Affections Vol 2

What Was Thaas

The band Supply Demand and Curve - recorded in a cottage in Enniskerry, County Wicklow, on December 1972. Roger Doyle drums, Jolyon Jackson keyboards, Paddy Finney guitar, whistle and vocals, Brian Masterson bass

Long Pegging Awl

From The Room In The Tower - music © Roger Doyle; text Carlo Gébler

Playing Cards

Composition & software instruments: Roger Doyle. Composed for my grandson Oisín, and how a French person might pronounce his name.

Wassane

Composed and produced by Roger Doyle © with the vocal improvisations of Carolyn Cahill

Dark Scenery

Music composed and produced by Roger Doyle © PRS 2016. Male soprano: Robert Crowe; soprano: Daire Halpin; tenor: Morgan Crowley. From the opera HERESY.

Scenes from Heresy

At The Court Of Elizabeth I (part 2)

Music by Roger Doyle composed in 2011 around telephone answering machine messages from 1987, when I was hospitalised after a severe asthma attack. 

Back From Hospital

Composition and performance © Roger Doyle PRS

The Electrification Of Night

Second Oak

Fragmented audio files from my opera Heresy making new pieces from the re-assemblage.

The Heresy Ostraca

Ostracon 3

Composed by Roger Doyle in collaboration with singer Ahmad Alkaran. Appears on new album: http://rogerdoyle1.bandcamp.com/

Gandharva

Gate Crash

You Not You

Lungtree

Danger

Composed and produced by Roger Doyle © PRS 2013....title track from newly released album.
Boy soprano: Gavin Jones.
Turkish Mey & soprano saxophone: Nick Roth.

The Thousand Year Old Boy

Opening track of the album Time Machine released on Heresy Records 2015

Chalant

Roger Doyle – composer, keyboardist and producer of own music, in concert and in the studio. Likes to work on large projects and to collaborate with others. His music is a celebration of the multiplicity of musical languages and evolving technologies.
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Roger has worked extensively in theatre, film and dance in particular with the music-theatre company Operating Theatre which he co-founded with actress Olwen Fouere. Operating Theatre released singles with CBS and Mother Records in the 80s - the latter produced by Bono of U2 - and also mounted several theatre productions integrating music as an equal partner. In his 30s he worked in many styles, allowing the influences of pop music to filter through. He was one of the first people in Ireland to work on a Fairlight Computer Music Instrument.&#13;
In 1989, at the age of 40 he began his life's work BABEL which would occupy him for 10 years. In 1999 he set up the Silverdoor label and released BABEL as a 5-CD set, where each track corresponds to a room or place within a giant tower city. It contained 103 pieces of music and he worked with 48 collaborators on it.&#13;
In 2000 the CD UNDER THE GREEN TIME was released, a collaboration with the Netherlands Wind Ensemble; as was a CD of the piano music which Doyle composed for the Steven Berkoff production of SALOME, which played in Dublin's Gate Theatre, in London's West End and on three world tours.&#13;
From 2002-07 he worked on a large-scale electronic work PASSADES, constructed in 9 'sets', and released on 3 CDs.&#13;
From 2007-2010 he completed 2 'cinema for the ear' projects - live soundtracks for imaginary films: ADOLF GÉBLER, CLARINETTIST and THE ROOM IN THE TOWER (performed by the National Symphony Orchestra and The Crash Ensemble respectively - both released on CD), and in 2012  CHALANT-MEMENTO MORI - music composed around intimate verbal time capsules (telephone answering machine messages from the 1980s), together with  THE THOUSAND YEAR OLD BOY - software instruments compositions which are 'explorations in imagined world musics, past, present and future'. (2013).&#13;
He has just completed his first opera 'The Death By Fire Of Giordano Bruno' (2014).
In 1997 he won the Programme Music Prize (with Spirit Levels I-IV from Babel) and in 2007 the Magisterium Award (with The Ninth Set from Passades) at the Bourges International Electro-acoustic Music Competition, in France.&#13;
Roger Doyle is a member of Aosdana, Ireland's state-sponsored academy of creative artists and is constantly amazed that he is a composer.

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