Second Square To None

Interesting program for the next Free State concert by the Crash Ensemble that includes SSTN-friend Amanda Feery with a great piece for bass clarinet called 'Rattle'. You can hear this piece below performed by Paul Roe.

Rattle (for Bass Clarinet) by amandafeery

Crash Ensemble continues its commitment to showcasing the work of Ireland’s brightest composers in Free State VI, paying homage to new talent in this annual concert.

For one night only, the Irish Museum of Modern Art will play host to a full spectrum of Irish contemporary talent, ranging from Judith Ring’s ‘Up to My F-holes’ for solo cello and tape to Andrew Hamilton’s ‘Music for People Who Like Art’ for full ensemble and soprano. This concert will also feature the world premiere of a new piece by Dan Trueman, specially commissioned for Free State VI by Crash Ensemble.

It's on Friday 1 April, 2011 at IMMA with tickets €20/15. IMMA works really well as a venue for Crash stuff, Rothko Chapel sounded great out there.

Check www.crashensemble.com or the event Facebook page for more information.

Will definitely be heading along to this, really exciting line-up of Irish composers doing works for surround sound. It's on in Severed Head, a new gallery space on Mount St., where Ed will be doing his Stop/Run installation/show.

The Spatial Music Collective 8.6
Date: 13 November
Time: 7.30 - 11.30pm
Price: €5

Jigs n rigs live set by Ronan Dunne

Info from soundcloud.com/ronandunne:

The live set almost identical to what i played at jigs and rigs festival on Rathlin island but it's a live set recorded at home because there was no recording of the gig itself that night. I'll have more of my own tracks up as soon as I get 'm down.
The mix is a pretty hard edge, out the window type thing done with 2decks, a mixer and some records, I'll be putting more up as I go.
They're all played live and unedited so it will be representative of a live performance, I sacrificing some editing type detail for what I can play.
PLAY IT LOUD !

Haven't featured any techno in awhile, so here is a prime chance to catch a recent set from one of our favourite producers, Rory St John.

Direct link to Beton show featuring Rory St John set

1. rsj - Sadbat (teskoba)
2. rsj - Krayon (unrel)
3. uninerves - black ops (mantrap)
4. rsj - 12 bullet (unrel)
5. rsj - chew (unrel)
6. rsj - 13 bullet (Limetree)
6. rsj - wasted (Stasis)
8. Black SMith Craft - The End of Everything (rsj remix) (Limetree)
9. rsj - Widow (teskoba)
10. rsj - untitled (Limetree)
11. rsj - deglove
12. Madtek - The Dark age (rsj remix) (Digital Distortions)

http://www.myspace.com/betonradioshow
http://www.myspace.com/rorystj
http://soundcloud.com/rorystjohn
http://www.facebook.com/rory.stjohn

Great line-up for this. A whole heap of more info at kaboogie.net. Should be bangin.

Ilex and Meljoann are the support acts for Irish electronica favourite Hunter-Gatherer at the launch of his Pere Lachaise 7" this Thurs, 7 October.

On the night there'll be giveaways including first-come-first-served USB keys (preloaded with video and mp3), badges and t-shirts. Copies of the 7", among other things, will be onsale at the gig.






More info at the Facebook event page.

  Ed Devane @ Test 18-09-10 by Ed Devane

Info at www.eddevane.com

Tracklist:
1. Ed Devane - Stony-faced / Cataclysmic
2. Ed Devane - BYM version
3. Ed Devane - Tua
4. Ed Devane - Technoblient version
5. T-Polar - War Stories for Boys (Ed Devane remix)(War Stories Remixes - Takeover Recordings)
6. Ed Devane - Squib (dry) (feat. vox from Amanda Feery + Regan O'Brien "From the Moment You Arrive")
7. Ed Devane - Frozen Backpackers (Trapdoor Material Part 2 v/a/ EP - Mantrap Records 005)
8. Ed Devane - Playtime (Rapidfirebuzzer v/a EP - !kaboogie KBG003)
9. Ed Devane - Melted Membrane (remix of Molten Membrane album, forthcoming Mantrap)
10. Ed Devane - Lissajous Inversion
11. Ed Devane - Money for Beer? (Over the Counter-Culture v/a EP, Spacebar Sentiments SBS002)
12. Ed Devane - Chalktown Bounce Collision (Room Full of Empty People EP, forthcoming Takeover)
13. Ed Devane - (why worry about something that doesn't exist?)Future (Room Full of Empty People EP, forthcoming Takeover)
14. Ed Devane - 2C-me (Room Full of Empty People EP, forthcoming Takeover)
15. Ed Devane - Stand Clear (personal space mix)
16. Anodyne - Haze (Ed Devane remix)

  Irish Electronics DJ Set - Recorded Live @ Tacheles, Berlin by swarmintelligence

Irish Electronics DJ Set by Swarm Intelligence featuring releases from Fran Hartnett, Eomac, Rory St John, Ed Devane, Lakker, Digger and the man himself. Great set and deadly to see someone spreading the good word abroad.

Tracklist:

Brian Conniffe was the inaugural participant in our Noise Series. Should be a really interesting gig.

Fairlights are playing at this tonight. We featured Enda/Fairlights awhile back on the blog, recommend checking him out live (+ it's free).







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New gig by Spatial Music Collective featuring Dublin Guitar Quartet at Smock Alley Theatre on August 5th. Worth checking out.

Full details here.

P R O G R A M M E
For this very special concert, the quartet will be performing with electric guitars and four guitar amplifiers positioned in the four corners of the theatre, while the electronic parts will be performed using an additional eight-channel surround sound speaker array. The concert will include the premiere performance of new works for electric guitar quartet and 8-channel electronics by Brian Bridges, Linda Buckley, Simon Cullen, Michael Fleming and Jonathan Nangle. In addition, Enda Bates will be performing a new work for hexaphonic guitar and electronics and Pat Brunnock from the Dublin Guitar Quartet will be performing Steve Reich’s Electric Counterpoint.

From www.desertedvillage.com, lots of interesting people playing at this:

Deserted Village Summer Party with.........

United Bible Studies
Plinth ('Occurence At Owl Creek Bridge' Live Soundtrack & DJ sets)
Children Under Hoof
Sabre Series
Papercut
DJ Jaakko Häme

25th July, Twisted Pepper (The Mezz upstairs) 7pm €8
www.myspace.com/unitedbiblestudies
www.myspace.com/michaeltanner
www.myspace.com/childrenunderhoof
www.myspace.com/papercutnoise

Sabre Series: Debut of new band comprised of:
Niamh De Barra: Cello
Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh: Viola
Fiona Lucia McGarry: Violin
Gavin Prior: Guitar
Suzanne Walsh: Vocals

Second Square to None presents the launch of Niamh de Barra (formerly known as Scurvy Lass)'s debut EP "Cusp", the first official release on SSTN. The gig will take place in The Joinery on Sunday 8th August from 4-7PM. Niamh will be joined by a choir for part of her set, with support from Laura Sheeran (live) and Steph Power (DJ set).

Something a bit different....Crash Ensemble - Live from (Le) Poisson Rouge on May 10, 2010, on www.wqxr.org.

Featuring pieces by Terry Riley, David Lang, Steve Reich and artistic director Donnacha Dennehy. Quality recording of a very interesting program.

SSTN associates A4 Sounds are putting on a fundraiser gig in The Cavern (The Good Bits, 1 Store St., Dublin 1) on Saturday 24th July. The art group have been asked to fill an empty shop unit in Tuam Shopping Center, Tuam, Co. Galway as part of the Earwig! Tuam Arts Festival in August. Being an artist-run collective, and being that most of the members are forever broke, they are exchanging techno for cash!

Proceeds will go towards making the show something to remember for all at the festival, and the line up promises to deliver heavy and in places off-kilter styles of the people's number one* party music: techno.

Ex-pats Ronan Dunne, The Prunisher and Rory St. John will be in town on the night to lend some pre-Rathlin wonk, and will be aided and abetted by Xim (one half of new kids on the block Digger), !kaboogie agitator Redmonk and that Ed Devane lad.


*analysis of widespread youth culture trends in relation to interaction with music (in the form of pie charts, PowerPoint presentations and laser pointers) was not used in the construction of that sentence

!Kaboogie promises to be full-on deadliness:
Next !K Club - 8th July with Prince Kong, Richie !K, Rory St John, Drokkr & more.


Full details here.

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