design and photography by Robin Parmar
Soundings presents:
Garth Paine (Australia)
Jack Talty (Ireland)
Guiseppe Torre, Robert Sazdov and Dorota Konczewska
Join us at 8pm on Thursday 10 September for the start of a new Soundings series. The location will be the historic St. Munchin's Church on Church Street in Limerick.
Please note: Jaime Oliver, previously scheduled to perform, has been unable to make it due to visa problems. We apologise for any inconvenience.
Garth Paine is regarded as an innovator in the field of interactivity in new media arts. His immersive interactive environments have been exhibited in Australia, Europe, Japan, USA, Hong Kong and New Zealand. He is a founding member of the Electronic Music Foundation and has been active in the NIME conference since its inception. Recently he has performed at the Agora Festival, Centre Pompidou (2006) and the New York Electronic Arts Festival (2007) and Ireland (2009). In 2009 he will perform in Ireland, New York, Montreal, Quebec, Arizona, and Syndey, Perth and has interactive installations in Sydney and New York.
Jack Talty is a performer and composer of Irish traditional music. As a music student of University College Cork, Jack received a Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann performance award, a Bene Merente award, the Sean Ó Riada Memorial Prize and the Mary V. Hart Memorial Prize. As a performer, Jack has performed extensively throughout Europe, the United States and Australia.
Orgánam for voice, traditional fiddle, double bass, traditional flute and laptop, explores an organic soundworld that combines live Irish traditional music and computer-generated electronic textures created using the acoustic instrumentation as source materials. New organic electronic materials replace generic industry-standard synthesiser textures and drones. Electronic materials, both pre-composed and generated live through sampling, fuse with acoustic materials, working together organically as necessary components of a greater structure. Performance instructions and acoustic materials are selected in real-time and presented to the performers on screens. Other real-time processes include spatialisation, equalization and granular synthesis.
Saileog Ní Cheannabháin, vocals & traditional fiddle, and Neil O'Loghlen, double bass & traditional flute, join Jack Talty on laptop for this performance.
Giuseppe Torre is a composer, multimedia artist and software engineer. He is currently a faculty member at the Centre for Computational Musicology and Computer Music (CCMCM), working towards his doctorate at the Interaction Design Centre, University of Limerick. He holds a Laurea (Masters) in Art, Music and Theater (DAMS) from the University of Palermo, Italy, a Masters of Science in Music Technology (UL) and a Diploma V in classical guitar and music theory from the Conservatoire of Music of Palermo. He has performed at international festivals such as Csound-EAR, Sonorities, and Il Suono dei Soli. Since 2005 he has been involved in the Celeritas Project (Tyndall National Institute of Cork and IDC), developing a new wearable wireless sensor unit for live solo/group multimedia performances.
Robert Sazdov is a composer, music producer, researcher and educator. His recent awards include a 2nd Prize at the 5th Pierre Schaeffer International Computer Music Competition 2005, an Honorary Mention in the Musica Nova International Electro-acoustic Competition 2005, finalist at the Palmares de 33e Concours Internationaux de Musique et d'Art Sonore Electroacoustiques de Bourges 2006, an Award of Excellence in High Resolution Recording from the Audio Engineering Society 2007 and selection for the Cycle de Concerts de Musique par Ordinateur de l'Université Paris VIII 2007.
Dorota Konczewska is a Polish composer, singer and multimedia artist living in Ireland. She holds a degree in Visual Communication and Computer Design and MA in Music Technology from University of Limerick (CCMC). She is an active composer, vocalist and live electronics performer and photographer. Recent work engages video art, mixed media installations and cross-audiovisual genre projects. She has collaborated with numerous international performers, sound artists, dancers and film directors. Her work has been commissioned by art institutions, broadcasted, and also presented on international art festivals. She has also been delivering workshops for the Department of Music Therapy, UL and Daghdha Dance Company. She is on the board of directors of the Polish and Irish Association of Business and Culture.
Soundings is a continuing performance series designed to open the senses to new forms of music, sound art and media interaction. It is sponsored by the CCMCM at the University of Limerick and features a state of the art sound system.
Admission is only 10 euros (5 euros concession) at the door. University of Limerick students are free with student ID. Space is limited: first come, first served.