Commissioned by Sligo International Chamber Music Festival 2021.
Written for and performed by Dermot Dunne on 1st May 2021.

For accordion and electronics/backing track. 
Recorded live by Simon Cullen.

A reflection on the dystopian eeriness of lockdown.

The title for this piece is inspired by news reports from Italy during lockdown depicting people watching each other across the empty squares from the confinement of their apartments and balconies. 

The piece itself is an atmospheric, almost cinematic representation of the anxieties and frustrations a lot of us have felt over the past year. 

Working with Dermot is always an exciting endeavour and the accordion mixed with electronics allows for a very intense, chaotic battle between man and machine!

Across The Empty Squares

One year ago, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted, causing widespread destruction to the Pacific Island Nation of Tonga. It spewed volcanic material up to 58 km into the atmosphere, brought a nearly 15 m tsunami that crashed ashore, destroying villages, and created a sonic boom that rippled around the world – twice. 

Even one year on, interest in the extraordinary explosive eruption remains. A sound artist has recently recreated the sonification of the underwater volcanic eruption using rayleigh signal intensity data provided by the Aeolus Virtual Research Environment platform.

Using wind data obtained on one of its overpasses over the ash cloud of the Hunga Tonga explosion, Jamie Perera used an audio sample of one of the shock waves, time-stretched it into a ghostly tone, and assigned it to harmonic values transcribed from 90 Aeolus readings taken over a duration of approximately 15 minutes. 
The listener hears one reading every two seconds, in a harmonic range that spans six piano octaves, the highest of which can be heard at around 01:18 minutes when the readings show the eruption’s dust plume at its highest peak (over 20.5 km). The artistic intention behind the sonification was to evoke the otherworldly landscape of Hunga Tonga and other volcanoes. 

Sonification credit/copyright: @jamieperera (2023). Used by permission. Data and guidance provided by Daniel Santillan. Thanks to Peter Bickerton and Jemma Foster. Originally created as part of Wild Alchemy Journal - Air Edition - Aeolus

Sound of the Hunga Tonga Volcanic Eruption

Epirotika Mirologi

Voyager: Lightning on Jupiter

In my Memory

Do you feel like you’re running out of time? Which way is it going? Are you able to stop time? If so, how? Many objects in the Rubin’s collection of Himalayan art reflect the Buddhist concept of time, including the interconnected nature of the past and future. About Time aims to reframe our perspective on time and its impact on our lives. 

Performance artist, electronic music pioneer, and filmmaker Laurie Anderson invited a group of her favorite writers, thinkers, and poets to tackle the big questions about time. In this episode, Laurie has a freewheeling conversation with poet Jane Hirschfield, who is known as one of American poetry’s central spokespersons for the biosphere. Her poems display that exquisite ability to observe the monumentality of existence in the smallest facets of nature and our nature. This conversation took place on stage at the Rubin in 2024.

About the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art
The Rubin is a global museum dedicated to presenting Himalayan art and its insights through exhibitions, participatory experiences, a dynamic digital platform, and partnerships. Inspired and informed by Himalayan art, the Rubin invites people to contemplate the human experience and deepen connections with the world around them in order to expand awareness, enhance well-being, and cultivate compassion.

Listen to the full About Time series: rubinmuseum.org/about-time

Laurie Anderson: About Time with Jane Hirshfield

"Ascent (An Ending)" by Brian Eno transcribed and performed with pipe organ and electronics. Recorded in Church of St. Francis Xavier in Kaunas (Lithuania).

Karolina Juodelytė (pipe organ)
Tadas Dailyda (arrangement, programming, electronics)
Mykolas Natalevičius (arrangement, programming, electronics)

Brian Eno - Ascent (An Ending) (pipe organ with electronics cover)

PS009 - Szlazak - Suspension EP - Cassette

Out now on Proto Sites

http://bit.ly/PS009BC

PS009 - Szlazak - Suspension EP (excerpts)

This my version of Fovea Hex's piece "All Those Signs" released on 21 June 2017. I was particularly inspired by the original song and was very pleased to contribute to this release.

This remix is contained on the Bonus Cd only which can be found here:
http://janetrecords.com/2017/buy.html

Their original version can be listened here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA0dEukZyfQ

The Salt Garden II

FOVEA HEX - We Dream All The Dark Away (Abul Mogard Remix)

Hear intriguing radio waves that our Cassini spacecraft collected near Jupiter in January 2001.

Jupiter Sounds 2001

Track is taken from the new Roedelius-album 'Selbstportrait Wahre Liebe'

The first part of Roedelius' Selbstportrait (Self-Portrait) series was originally released under the title 'Sanfte Musik' on Sky Records in 1979. Now, some forty years later, a new instalment has arrived in the form of an album entitled 'Wahre Liebe'.

More info: http://bureau-b.com/roedelius.php

In my Memory

Si Schroeder

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