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

from the album ~plays Django Reinhardt 
on the label Off
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plays Django Reinhardt

sylvain van iniitu - tea for two

Areale Linguistik

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I could have called it "Steel on Steel Friction 2"

This one is longer.

> recorded in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal) on 2022/08/20,
> using a Zoom H4n
> It's raw audio, nothing done to the recorded audio, not even normalization.

That's just on the other side of La Ronde (I think the name has changed, was purchased by Six Flags maybe twenty years ago, and then by another since then, I'm not sure), an amusement park where they shoot firecrackers far up in the air, rockets actually. (See "Gigantic Popcorn" among my other field recordings)

Port Train - Screaming Steel

For this Disquiet Junto prompt, I chose a fully automated chore, the washing machine. I find the sound of the washing machine comforting. The phases of its cycle are an endless mystery to me, so I recorded a series of different sounds from the pattern on a Sony dictaphone. Then I layered these parts of each cycle on Audacity and built a piece around different pitches and rhythms, and adding reverb. There's a bubble wrap solo at 7 minutes in just for the hell of it.

More on this 558th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Chore Progressions (The Assignment: Use a routine activity as the map of a composition) — at: https://disquiet.com/0558/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0558-chore-progressions/

Endless Cycles of Washing Clothes (disquiet0558)

soundflower

For a project exploring sounds created by fermentation in collaboration with Milena Farioli of and at OVNI, Fribourg, CH
September 2022

Fermentation of red cabbage

artist: john reidar holmes
title: manichees and madmen
catalog: eR011
release date: 24th of september 2022

release type: album
series: eRecords digital series
playing speed: 33 1/3 rpm

written and produced by john reidar holmes
mastered by john reidar holmes
cover artwork by philip elvin holmes
art and design by harry towell
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eRecords are a series of digital editions which aim to transform the digital format into something that can be experienced in a similar way to a listener’s interaction with a real, whitelabel vinyl record. Each edition includes a special PDF scrapbook including polaroids and liner notes and you will only be able to find out more about the themes and ideas about each record, once you’ve downloaded them.

Manichees & Madmen

eR011 john reidar holmes - goodbye to cape farewell

The Vociferous Mapping Of Your Unlikely Future
https://nomatesensemble.bandcamp.com/album/the-vociferous-mapping-of-your-unlikely-future

So after 18 months, 50 musicians, artists and poets, 100’s of files, several innocent bystanders and of course some beautiful dogs and cats and I am proud to announce the debut album from Then She Reaches For The Gun. 
It’s been an immense pleasure to work with all this amazing talent! 
The album is titled The Vociferous Mapping Of Your Unlikely Future and features 10 tracks with the final track featuring every single one of the contributors somewhere in its 21 minutes : ) 
Here is the full credit list:
Adam Meredith - Voice
Anita Hustas - Double Bass
Agnostura Elwar - Electronica/Guitar/Piano
Antonella Eye Porcelluzzi - Voice 
Ariad Music- Clarinet/Percussion/Piano
Axel Weiß- Guitar 
Bellai Pelegrim - Electronica
Brendan Corey Benson - Guitar
Carolyn Wigston -Voice
Chicago Word Brigade - Synth/Noise/Poetry/Voice/Voice Guitar
Dane Renshaw - Drums
Dani Kirby - Piano/Voice
Dough Factory - Electronica
ElectroTrek - Vibes Synth/Voice
Fake Stereo Machine - Field Recordings
Frank Wilke - Trombone/Trumpet/Voice
Garbage Truck Disco - Guitar/Pixies Tribute
Gary Rees - Voice
Glenn Ward - Beats/Guitar/Voice
Gonzalo Serrano - Acoustic/Electronic Drums
Holy Shitshow - Digital Strings
Hverheij - Electronica/Guitar/Nursery Rhyme Glockenspiel/Voice
Ilaria Boffa - Poetry/Voice
Juan A Miñana - Electronics/Noise
Life in The Movies - Electronic Percussion/Synths
MatVee - Beats
Martin Pozdrowicz - Organ/Pad
Muterial -Electronica
My Nocturnal Twin - Guitar
Nosensend - Synths
Paolo D’Emilio - Poetry/Voice
Paul Miller - Beats/Keyboards/Synth Bass/Voice
Phil Bywater - Tenor Saxophone
Primaloop -Drums
PuppetXeno- Guitar/Synths
Raöulfr Maganhar - Field Recordings/Voice
TexMex Shaman - Guitar/Talkbox
The Windscale Blues Experiment - Saxophones
Thomas Bergheim - Bass/Guitar/Keyboard
Timothy Korstad - Electronica/Poetry/Voice
Tuonela - Drones/Electronica
Widar’s Spiritual Front - Electronica/Percussion
W:I:L-o’ the-wisp - Double Bass/Guitar/Keyboards
Wüst - Electronica
Vartch - Disco/Noise/Synths/Voice
Yui Nikaido- Voice

Hacho, Lola, Neska, Senna, and Yoda - Barks/Hisses/Meows/Purrs/Howls and Heavy Breathing

Mat Ward - Arrangements/Beats/Bass/Digital Orchestration//Field Recordings/Intonarumori/Noise/Percussion/Piano/Voice

Mark Rothko Sex Toys Pt 2(Current Tasmanian Business Speak Mix)

Soundinstallation zum Thema Heimat
Im Kurpark von Bad Breisig wurden SpaziergängerInnen, TouristInnen und Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund gebeten das inoffizielle Bad Breisiger Heimatlied (Komponist Dr. Dirk Pollerberg †) in ein Mikrofon zu singen. Diese Aufnahmen wurden Teil einer Installation im Glaskasten einer temporären Galerie im Bad Breisiger Kurpark vom 17.03 - 01.04.2023.
In Zusammenarbeit mit den KünstlerInnen Julia Wenz-Delaminsky und Peter Franck-Oberaspach, im Rahmen des Projekts “Rheinfunken” gefördert vom Fonds Soziokultur, in Kooperation mit dem Heimatverein Breisig.live.

sound installation on the theme of Heimat
In the spa park of Bad Breisig, walkers, tourists and people with a migration background were asked to sing the unofficial Bad Breisiger Heimatlied (composer Dr. Dirk Pollerberg †) into a microphone. These recordings became part of an installation in the glass case of a temporary gallery in the Bad Breisiger Kurpark from March 17th to April 1st, 2023.
In cooperation with the artists Julia Wenz-Delaminsky and Peter Franck-Oberaspach, as part of the “Rheinfunken” project, funded by the Fonds Soziokultur, in cooperation with the Heimatverein Breisig.live.

Kleine Perle am Rhein

Mitschnitt einer Video/Sound Performance beim Kunstverein Oberwelt e.V./Stuttgart, März 2019, zu dem Film “Untergang”  von Josh von Staudach


Recording of a video/sound performance at the Kunstverein Oberwelt e.v./Stuttgart, 03.2019, to the film “Drowning” of Josh von Staudach

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Drowning (LivePerformance)

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