Printing House Festival this Saturday (1 Viewer)

[david]

i&e presents:
IMPROV AT THE PRINTING HOUSE FESTIVAL
one day festival of improvised music

Saturday April 23
The Printing House
Trinity College Dublin

featuring:
REBECCA COLLINS (IRL) voice
ALFREDO COSTA MONTEIRO (PORTUGAL) accordion
ANGHARAD DAVIES (UK) violin
RHODRI DAVIES (UK) harp
STAN ERRAUGHT (IRL) acoustic guitar
FERRAN FAGES (SPAIN) acoustic turntable
FERGUS KELLY (IRL) cabinet of curiosities
DAVID LACEY (IRL) percussion/electronics
DENNIS MCNULTY (IRL) computer
JEROME NOETINGER (FRANCE) electroacoustic devices
GAVIN PRIOR (IRL) tabletop bass
NIKOS VELIOTIS (GREECE) cello
PAUL VOGEL (IRL) computer

Afternoon: 2-5 (8 euro)
Evening: 7-10 (10 euro)
All day: 15 euro

More info: http://dennismcnulty.com

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

lacey, sorry, i mean, david, what's an acoustic turntable?

kuriosfugurty,
andrew

 

[david]

fogarty, sorry, i mean andrew...

never seen the acoustic turntable in action, but from what i can gather he uses the rotating turntable, manipulates it with various objects and so forth, without ever using the cartridge. whatever it is, it's a beautiful noise.

 

[nEiLo]

 

[ron]

This sounds brill and dead cheap.

Best of luck with this.

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

i got this insane recording of mcnulty play the abacus (acoustic computer) if anyone wants it dubbed

andrew

 

[david]

i have actually seen someone listed as playing 'acoustic laptop', i shit you not.

 

[Charlie Bucket]

or you could just stay home and listen to your kitchen appliances....or fry some bacon...

 

[david]

here's what's happening and when:

afternoon:
Rhodri Davies/David Lacey/Dennis McNulty
Nikos Veliotis solo
Ferran Fages/Fergus Kelly
Jerome Noetinger solo
Alfredo Costa Monteiro/Angharad Davies/Paul Vogel

evening:
Rebecca Collins/Gavin Prior
Stan Erraught solo
David Lacey/Dennis McNulty/Jerome Noetinger/Paul Vogel
Alfredo Costa Monteiro/Ferran Fages
CRANC:Angharad Davies/Rhodri Davies/Nikos Veliotis

 

[Pantone247]

Stan Erraught solo

this is stan, sewing room stan? yah?

 

[david]

the one and only.

 

[ron]

How was this? Reports please.

 

[ddmurph]

How was this? Reports please.

it was deadly. the jerome noetinger solo set in the first session was particularly amazing. lots more deadly stuff too. killer way to spend a rainy saturday.

 

[McGonagles]

How was this? Reports please.

I'm not going to be able to do the day justice, so this is not a review...
Also, I was only at the second session.

There was a lot of sound, a lot of noise, but not much of what most people would call "music".

It did get me thinking along the lines of "What IS music anyway? Where DO you draw the line?", which was rewarding in itself.

There were conventional musical instruments (bass guitar, harp, accordion) played in unusual ways (Ebow, violin bow, small electric motor, wire brush). There were also some unusual instruments: amplified table top (with sticky tape and scouring pad, things that you would normally only get audible sound out of with no other background noise), and the acoustic turntable...

It looked like all the pieces were improvised, especially the ensemble pieces, where sometimes one performer would look up (with an "are we done yet?" look), see the others were not done yet, and get back to playing until everyone stopped for long enough to look at the others.

The most "conventional" piece was Stan Erraught playing acoustic guitar and tuning fork.

I know a lot of people who would have just walked out of this, as soon as they realised that the piece they were hearing wasn't just the intro to the "real" music.

And I would remind them of what a BBC sound engineer said in a BBC studio to a certain guitarist, just after a recording session:
"Terribly sorry, Mr. Hendrix, but we're getting a lot of distortion on your guitar" (or words to that effect).