Node Ensemble 2014 playing "Assortmental", a mush containing 10 sections of music: mental, sentimental, advertisemental, sentimental again, disappointmental, vehemental, curtailmental, merrimental, sacramental, and developmental. 

"Hideously mediocre" soloists: Chris McCormack, Garret Farrell, and Otto Tshune.

ASSORTMENTAL (Node Ensemble 2014)

Hot Potato is a short simple piece in which a two-note idea is thrown around. 

Played by Cue Saxophone Quartet at the Irish Composers Collective's "Unison" concert, 19 February 2015, at the National Concert Hall, Dublin. 

Hot Potato (Cue Saxophone Quartet)

”BOUTS sounds like you're listening to the radio, and each station remembers where you were, so when you go back to it, it continues from where you left off.” 

Performed by RTE ConTempo String Quartet at ICC10 festival, 19 November 2014

Gushing praise: 
”It is Stephen O’Brien, ICC Secretary, who surreptitiously steals the show, with an intriguingly obtuse piece, apparently mimicking a somewhat sentient radio changing stations.” - TN2 Magazine, http://www.tn2magazine.ie/icc10-day-1-review

BOUTS (RTE ConTempo String Quartet)

"Answer the Question!", played by the amazing Lina Andonovska, at a concert kindly organised by Linda Buckley, at TCD's Printing House Hall, 3 November 2015.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDI0wFkZtUc

Answer the Question! (Lina Andonovska, flute/piccolo/alto flute)

Sung by Eoghan Desmond with piano accompaniment from myself, at the Ensemble ICC concert at the National Concert Hall, 15 August 2014. 

“Endings” is a setting of a Derek Walcott poem. The poem’s images of loss and closure are reflected musically by schmaltzy cadences and terminating processes.

Endings (Ensemble ICC)

Scenes In E flat

Possible little Overture or Entr'acte thingy? (for a wonderful Eithne Kavanagh musical!)

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RsqfQkua3Y

Performed at the Music & Media Technologies grad show, Samuel Beckett Theatre, Trinity College Dublin, 30 April 2016.

Narrator: Matthew Cullen
Instrumentalists: Cue Saxophone Quartet (Robert Finnegan, Ryan Hargadon, Sean Kenny, Stephen O'Brien) 
Max patch operator: Michael Sheridan 
Video: Mark Linnane

WE'LL DO IT LIVE (Cue Saxophone Quartet, Matt Cullen narrator, Michael Sheridan Max/MSP assistant)

Yseult Cooper Stockdale performing my cello+tape piece "Natural Wastage". Commissioned by Kirkos Ensemble for their 2017 Kirkoskammer series.

Natural Wastage (Yseult Cooper Stockdale, cello, Nov 2017)

Cue Saxophone Quartet playing my piece Hot Potato in St Stephen's Church/The Peppercanister Church, May 2018

Stephen O’Brien

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