”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)

The Pearl Mvt IV BBC NOW (3:3:17) (Orchestra)

Outtake from a film score.
Performed by Elliot Murphy and Patricia Stepien.

Downfall (Outtake)

Robert Finegan playing Jacques Ibert's "Concertino da Camera mvt 2" at the Flax Trust Music Award Final 2017.

Jacques Ibert: Concertino da Camera mvt 2

As performed by the Contempo String Quartet

This piece is a 4 part canon for string quartet, with each parts taking place at a different speed, creating a collage of different sounds.

Surge's Deft Levy

The final movement of my suite for the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, commissioned by RTÉ lyric fm.

The brief was to write a five-movement suite suitable for play on daytime radio.

Great recording by the wonderful RTÉ Concert Orchestra

2016.2: V. Finale

A short piece experimenting with textures and colours; for guitar, ukulele, and melodica.

Huegaze

A teaser clip/extract - on August 4th I will be improvising a live viola part over a fixed electronic track as part of Anna Murray's Kontakt:Play gig in Kaizen Bar

This is part of a series of partly-improvised sketch performances which will hopefully lead to a finished viola and tape piece at some point (my first one since 2010!!)

The electronics are partly derived from playing around with granular synthesis of some speech, some of my chamber music and some piano improvisations. all of this is over a bed of sound and harmony made from an exxxxxxtremely slowed down string quartet recording

TEASER Kontakt Improv Aug 4th

Composition made from Steve Reich's voice as recorded on Robert Davidson's telephone answering machine

Voicemail - Steve Reich on Robert Davidson's answering machine

Raw guitar duet written and performed by Seb Fayle and I.

Guitar thrown into a bush and photographed by myself.

BOUTS (RTE ConTempo String Quartet)

Stephen O’Brien

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