Sound design for an immersive audio journey through the Crawford Art Gallery’s historic collection of Canova Casts exploring the poetics and thought behind the portrayal of muscle. Crawford Art Gallery, Cork. Curator Michael Waldron.
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Music and sound design for a new stage work based on an unrelenting sequence of stage sound effects, doorbells, telephones, dogs and parlour piano that triggers the behaviour of a quartet of performers through the voids of a box set towards an orchestrated implosion of theatre convention. Commissioned by NTGent, Belgium for their Histoire(s) du Théâtre series.
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Underscore for comedic tour-de-force of looping theatrical logic commissioned for Avignon Festival. Composed for home electric organ, a shifting minimalistic score drawing on classic ‘comedy’ phrasing holds and drives the spiralling mechanisms of this work.
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A player-piano replays a recording of a cat that walked across the keys 30 years ago. The piece illuminates the death and revivification inherent in all mechanical recording. As the keys visibly repeat the act of being depressed, they reveal the imprint of the live body and follow the negative space of the creature. As with the piano rolls that recoded Rachmaninov playing his own music in 1919, the observer is attending a kind of séance and the random, spontaneous, and unrepeatable elements are extrapolated back to the player and composer as a kind of signature of presence and authenticity. In Cat Print, the same is true although it is composed (almost) entirely accidentally.
CAT PRINT was shown in the group sound-art show at Stephen Lawrence Gallery, Greenwich, not necessarily in the right order Feb – April 2023
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