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Bríd Brennan performs Sinéad Morrissey's poem "Genetics" in the fifth film in our new series commissioned by Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation in collaboration with Irish Cultural Centre Hammersmith.
Directed by Matthew Thompson and produced by Tommy Creagh & Rosalind Scanlon; film assistant Jason Dimmock.
Here's John, Francis McIlduff & Brendan Quinn with "El Garrotin", recorded live at "Black Dog Radio Presents....Folk at the Meadows" during a wonderful gig on 2nd December 2023
Composer Roger Doyle is embracing new approaches to creating sound through the Fairlight Computer Musical Instrument.
Operating Theatre, is an avant-garde music theatre company founded by composer Roger Doyle and actress and performer Olwen Fouéré. Roger Doyle plays the Fairlight CMI with Olwen Fouéré on vocals for their first public performance of ‘Part Of My Make-up’. This piece was first composed on a piano and then transferred to the Fairlight CMI.
Roger Doyle describes the thinking behind the Operating Theatre project and explains how he uses the Fairlight CMI.
Operating Theatre is a group of actors and musicians who come together for various artistic adventures.
Operating Theatre is one part theatre and one part music, with a core membership of Roger and Olwen with other artists joining them for various different projects.
The Fairlight CMI comprises a synthesizer, sampler and workstation and uses samples to generate sounds and create music. Roger Doyle demonstrates how the instrument works creating a sound he calls ‘Live Arts’ with a teacup from the RTÉ canteen. A monitor displays the waveform of the particular sounds created.
It’s just a little squiggle at the beginning and the rest is silence.
The Fairlight can synthesize any conventional instrument. Roger Doyle is using it for more of his composing.
It’s more interesting to work with new sounds.
He describes the Fairlight as “a composer’s tool” that allows him to think in new ways about the creative process.
He does not believe that Fairlight technology will replace traditional orchestras. There are about 50 Fairlights in the world and just one in Ireland and according to Roger Doyle, nobody is using it to replace traditional instruments. The technology is now being used by musicians such as Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush as well as by advertising agencies and in film production.
This episode of ‘Live Arts Show’ was broadcast on 17 October 1983. The presenter is John Hutchinson.
‘Live Arts Show’ was a monthly arts programme presented by Moya Doherty and John Hutchinson. The programme was produced by Anne McCabe.
“For the 2021 Tread Softly Festival, sculptor Bettina Seitz collaborated with videographers Fionn Rogers and Peter Martin to create Ancestors, a sculptural installation of ghost-like, life-size figures representing the former inhabitants of Oyster Island, an uninhabited island off the Sligo coast.
Watch a series of haunting videos capturing the installation. “
Step into the world of James Joyce's Ulysses like never before! Join us for a special film screening of "The Ulysses Project" during Blooms Week 2024. Shot during lockdown, this modern adaptation features over 75 actors and intimate performances by John Turturro, Aidan Gillen, and more. Q&A with directors included!
Thu 13 June 2024, 7.00pm doors, £8 tickets. Presented with The Bloomsday Film Festival Dublin.
An interview with acclaimed and highly respected Irish poet and playwright Seamus Heaney. Host: John Edwards First shown: 02/04/1980 If you would like to license a clip from this video please e mail: archive@fremantlemedia.com Quote: VT22625
Cork songsmith and OV favourite Mick Flannery returned to St James' Church on Sunday night, bringing with him old favourites and new tunes from his latest album 'Goodtime Charlie', out now on John Prine's record label. Flannery's 2021 collaborative album 'In The Game' with Clare’s Susan O’Neill picked up accolades on both sides of the Atlantic and nabbed Phoebe Bridgers’ seal of approval. His style of storytelling is brimming with compassion, vulnerability and observation.
Thanks to Reed, Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, RTÉ, Tourism Ireland, Kerry County Council & IMRO for making Other Voices Series 22 possible.
Lisa O'Neill performs live for This Ain't No Disco, the online Irish music showcase directed by Myles O'Reilly hosted by DJ and visual artist Donal Dineen.
In Ian Cochrane's F for Ferg, the struggle is not with the moral dangers of Ian Paisley’s imagination but with poverty, domestic violence and mental illness
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Ian was a family friend for many years. It’s great to see his work being republished.
Dublin Dance Festival is delighted to present Fallen From Heaven (Caída Del Cielo) by Rocío Molina, a wild and boundary-breaking star of the flamenco world.
Fallen From Heaven is a journey between opposing forces. Flamenco’s hallmarks – the passion, the proud stance and piercing eye contact – jostle for position with flashes of the avant-garde and the absurd in a radical celebration of womanhood.
Performed to live music which combines original composition, flamenco and rock, this daring work transforms a traditional dance form into an explosive, theatrical experience. In this masterful and irreverent exploration, Molina cycles through multiple incarnations of the feminine archetype – from virtuous beauty to bondage-clad toreador to bloodied supernatural being, expertly fusing the fiery intensity of flamenco with a contemporary aesthetic.
Praised as “a force to be reckoned with, in art and in life”, Rocío Molina has been recognised for her contribution to dance with the coveted Silver Lion Award at the Venice Biennale (2022) and an Olivier Award nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Dance in 2018.
Choreography & Musical Direction Rocío Molina Artistic Direction Rocío Molina, Carlos Marquerie Performers Rocío Molina (Dancer), Eduardo Trassierra (Guitar), Kiko Peña (Song, Electric Base), José Manuel Ramos “Oruco” (Percussion, Handclapping and Beat), Pablo Martín Jones (Percussion, Electronics)
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