Second Square To None

Featuring visual work by Maura McDonnell and music by Linda Buckley this should be well worth checking out.

Printing House, Trinity College, Dublin
Thurs Nov 11th, Fri Nov 12th
Time: 12:00-16:00

Silk Chroma is an installation that employs a technoscience approach to both colour and timbre experience to create a visual music and electroacoustic composition installation piece using a surround sound presentation.
It is inspired by the novella "Silk" by Allesandro Baricco. The technoscience approach to the perceptual aspect of colour and timbre is an innovative, non-standard approach to perceptual phenomena which permits a systematic handling of aesthetic issues; issues which are normally excluded from more scientific/technological considerations.
This event is taking place in the Printing House on the main college campus.

Info from www.innovationdublin.ie.

Some photos from Niamh de Barra's Cusp EP launch gig we hosted in the Joinery Gallery on Sunday 8th. The EP is available to download from the link in the main banner above - it should be noted that Bandcamp, the site where you'll jump to, allows you to chose how much (if any at all) you pay for the release. Obviously we would prefer it if people paid for the release (as proceeds will go towards the artist and future SSTN releases) but realise some can't afford it, or are used to the new model of music acquisition.

Music should be listened to, regardless of means of distribution...and this is definitely worth listening to.

Photos by Aoife de Burca

Graphic score composer, experimentalist and bassist in 90's cover sensation big band Attention Bebe, Shane McKenna will be running the latest installment of his graphic musical notation experiment this Monday 21st June in the Centre for Creative Practices in Dublin.


Pulsing Colours Shapes-CRACC ensemble from Shane Mc Kenna on Vimeo.
From the CfCP website:

"An evening of collaborative music making for all, with a diverse mix of jazz, classical, electronic and noise musicians present to lead the music making. The event will use animated graphic notation to encourage this collaborative process with everyone encouraged to bring an instrument or noise-making device along and join in. Animated graphic scores consist of moving shapes and symbols, which may be interpreted and performed as sounds. This event in the Centre for Creative Practices looks to explore the collaborative nature of graphic score performance with a large gathering of professional and amateur musicians creating a unique musical experience through interpretation, listening and performing.

Two animated graphic scores will be projected on opposite walls. An acoustic/pitched instrument ensemble will perform one score with the electronic/noise ensemble performing the other. The scores will be played five times, separately at first and gradually overlapping until they are played simultaneously the fifth time. Between each performance is an opportunity to consult with fellow performers as to how the piece should be successfully performed, building up to the final synchronized performance." Among the performers will be Fionn Wallace, Niamh de Barra, Amanda Feery, Ed Devane, and some very capable jazz musicians. http://www.cfcp.ie/events/shane2106.html