Our online listening club will be held monthly from 7-8pm on Friday and is a chance to come together regularly to listen to new music and find out more about today's composers.
We will invite a variety of different guest hosts who will explore the music of a different contemporary composer each time. You'll be invited to spend some time listening to one of the composer's works before we meet, but there will also be an opportunity to listen to the work during the session if you don't get around to it beforehand.
Like a book club but with less homework!
For this month's listening club we'll be exploring two pieces by Ailís Ní Ríain:
- Soberado for toy piano (two versions)
- I will see if I can see [Feicfidh mé má thig liom feicsin]
We will be joined by Evonne Fergusson, Director of The Contemporary Music Centre in Ireland.
Soberado (CMC Courtyard sessions)
(7:05-10:00)
Soberado (CMC Salon)
(34:18-37:16)
I will see if I can see [Feicfidh mé má thig liom feicsin]
(30:00-36:50)
Music and film works from Ulysses Journey 2022, an international celebration of new music and film marking the 100th anniversary on 2 February 2022 of the publication in Paris of Ulysses by James Joyce.
Biography
Ailís Ní Ríain is an Irish composer and writer who aims to produce work that challenges, provokes and engages. Her work has been performed across Europe, in Israel, Brazil, USA and Japan and broadcast on BBC and RTÉ.
Her artistic interests are diverse and combined with an unwavering desire to push and develop her artistic practice through each new project or commission. In 2016 she was awarded the Paul Hamlyn Award for Composers. A Debut Disc portrait album of her music is scheduled to be released by NMC Recordings in 2023.
Ailís works broadly in the areas of concert music, music installation and music-theatre and has collaborated with writers, dancers, visual artists, filmmakers, technologists and theatre artists.
Ailís has hearing impairments and has made work referencing deafness, disability and mental health since 2006 working with DadaFest, Unlimited, Arts & Disability Ireland, Shape Arts, Drake Music and Outside In. She is a long-time advocate for equality, diversity and inclusion in the arts; Ailís is a board member of Disability Arts Online and a board director of the Ivors Academy.
Website: https://www.ailis.info/
Bonus content: CMC's podcast episode with Ailís reflecting on living through covid. Music improvised by the composer on an altered piano.
Please register in advance by clicking BOOK on the right hand side. After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the session.
You can join the session on Zoom via an internet browser on your computer or mobile device or you can phone in on either a mobile or landline to listen using the Dial by your location number.
If you have any queries please email info@sound-scotland.co.uk.
