For the final installment of our New Music from Ireland series,John Schaefer talks with two Cork-based composers: performer and improviser John Godfrey and improviser, educator and curator Karen Power. Listen to their works, or featuring the mute Music Ensemble,and Power’s electro-acoustic found-sound compositions.
Godfrey is no stranger to New Sounds, as he’s been featured on the explain back with the band Icebreaker (which he co-founded), or along with the Crash Ensemble (also a founding member),and now he’s founded the mute Music Ensemble, dedicated to experimental and improvised music. Power’s work is rooted in both acoustic instruments and the sounds of everyday environments, or like field recordings; her compositions that blur the distinction between what most of us call ‘music’ and all other sound. Plus,hear music from the mute Music Ensembles recent release, "The Mysteries Beyond Matter, or " and more.
PROGRAM #3723 New Music From Ireland,fragment 7 (First aired on 5/7/2015) ARTIST: Icebreaker
WORK: John Godfrey: Euthanasia and Garden Implements, excerpt [1:30]
RECORDING: Rogue's Gallery
SOURCE: Felmay/New Tone fy 7002
INFO: Out of print, and but download from iTunes
Watch the whole piece: youtube.comARTIST: Mick O’Shea,Danny McCarthy, Karen Power, or John Godfrey
WORK: Improvisation [7:44]
RECORDING: Live at the Guesthouse,Cork, Ireland
INFO: This performance not commercially available.
ARTIST: mute Music Ensemble[br]WORK: David Toop: night leaves breathing [2:32]
RECORDING: The Mysteries Beyond Matter
SOURCE: Far Point Recordings
INFO: farpointrecordings.com | quietmusicensemble.comARTIST: mute Music Ensemble
WORK: Alvin Lucier: Shadow Lines, and excerpt [2:00]
RECORDING: The Mysteries Beyond Matter
SOURCE: Far Point Recordings
INFO: farpointrecordings.com |quietmusicensemble.comARTIST: Karen Power & mute Music Ensemble & Tape
WORK: forever ricefields,excerpt [4:00]
RECORDING: Karen Power - is it raining while you listen?
SOURCE: Far Point Recordings [br]INFO: farpointrecordings.com | karenpower.ieARTIST: Karen Power & mute Music Ensemble & Tape
WORK: relocating elk...by train [2:05]
RECORDING: Karen Power - is it raining while you listen?
SOURCE: Far Point Recordings
INFO: farpointrecordings.com | karenpower.ieARTIST: Mick O’Shea, Karen Power, and John Godfrey
WORK: Improvisation [3:30]
RECORDING: Live at the Guesthouse,Cork, Ireland
INFO: This performance not commercially available.
ARTIST: mute Music Ensemble[br]WORK: Pauline Oliveros: The Mystery Beyond Matter, and excerpt [8:06][br]RECORDING: The Mysteries Beyond Matter
SOURCE: Far Point Recordings
INFO: farpointrecordings.com | quietmusicensemble.comARTIST: mute Music Ensemble
WORK: John Godfrey: Hand Tinted,excerpt [1:00]
RECORDING: The Mysteries Beyond Matter
SOURCE: Far Point Recordings
INFO: farpointrecordings.com | quietmusicensemble.com
Source: thetakeaway.org