Dublin sound Lab
Concert – Frenzy
PROJECT ARTS CENTRE
Wednesday 23/4/25, 8pm
Duration: 75 mins
PROGRAMME
Michael Beil, String Jane, 2016, (for cello solo with live-video and tape) 10'
Lautaro Figueroa Balcarce, |T//E//A//R//S|* 2025 (for flute, clarinet, violin, live electronics and video), 10'
Christof Ressi, GIF Frenzy, 2020, (for clarinet, violin, cello), 10'
Fergal Dowling, Super_Human, 2020 (for e-guitar, violin, cello, live electronics and video), 20'
*Music Current Commission
PERFORMERS
Sillvija Ščerbavičiūtė, flute
Paul Roe, clarinets
Shane Latimer, e-guitar
Feilimidh Nunan, violin
Yseult Cooper-Stockdale, cello
Fergal Dowling, electronics
Fergal McKeown, sound
Chris Keogh, video projection
Aidan Whelan, lighting
Paul Lynch, stage management
Maeve Kelly, production assistant
Dublin Sound Lab perform a new programme titled 'Frenzy', the opening concert in Music Current 2025 with their trademark international multimedia style, featuring a new commission by rising star Lautaro Figueroa Balcarce (Argentina), Michael Beil's (Germany) seminal, virtuosic and highly idiomatic study of string technique (and video technique!), Christof Ressi's (Austria) witty study of computer-video-music interaction, and festival director Fergal Dowling's inharmonic transhumanist anti-manifesto, Super_Human.
"Dublin Sound Lab is doing an important job for those in Ireland who remain passionate about music in the post-war avant-garde lineage and who rarely get the opportunity to hear such 'difficult' music performed… …flying the flag in Ireland over the past decade for European modernism." (Liam Cagney, Journal of Music)
Dublin Sound Lab is a contemporary music project group specialising in electronic and computer-mediated concert performance. As well as presenting existing works, we initiate collaborations and use computer-based techniques to explore relationships between compositional process and performance practice, and to create new and engaging concert experiences.
Formed in 2008 by composer Fergal Dowling and organist Michael Quinn, Dublin Sound Lab has worked with many leading Irish and international composers, performing works by: Ailis Ni Riain, Gérard Grisey, Salvatore Sciarrino, Kaija Saariaho, Luca Francesconi, Karlheinz Essl, Peter Ablinger, Mauricio Kagel, Wim de Ruiter, Ann Cleare, Scott McLaughlin, Barry Truax, Roderik de Man, Karen Tanaka, Jean-Claude Risset, Ed Bennett, Judith Ring, Gerald Barry, Jonathan Nangle, Jonathan Harvey, Rob Canning, Gráinne Mulvey, David Bremner, and Garth Knox, amongst others.