The Sonic Vigil team reiterates our open and collaborative ethos combining composers Karen Power and John Godfrey with visual artists Danny Mc Carthy, Mick O’ Shea + Irene Murphy. It is currently being led by composer Karen Power.
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Karen Power - www.karenpower.ie
Karen Power is an Irish composer and sound artist. She uses two main sources for her compositions: acoustic instruments and everyday sounds. For over a decade, Power has listened and recorded in some of the world's most remote places: The Arctic, the Amazon, the Namib Desert, the outbacks of Australia, and most recently, Antarctica. Many of her compositions combine field recordings with musicians and are designed to create and share active listening environments. Such works often involve new kinds of "scores," co-creative techniques, and collaboration within the composition itself. The resulting works challenge listeners, introduce new contexts for these sounds, and change the way we perceive our world while acknowledging the change we all bring to it. |
Karen @ SV 10. Photo by Robin Parmar
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Mick O’Shea lives and works in Cork city and is a member and director of the Cork Artists Collective and The Guesthouse Project www.theguesthouse.ie and has been instrumental in establishing a vibrant and growing sound art scene in Cork city. His work spring from his fundamental experience in drawing which influences his approach to sound, sculpture, and food. In 2003 O’Shea and fellow artist Stephen Brandes and Irene Murphy formed The Domestic Godless www.thedomesticgodless.com to create irreverent and absurdist pataphysical cooking events. In 2006 he formed The Quiet Club with sound artist Danny McCarthy to promote and showcase improvised music and soundworks.
In 2007 he formed Gaitkrash Theatre Company www.gaitkrash.com (an experimental performance group) with Bernadette Cronin and Regina Crowley. In 2009 he formed TRACE with writer and sound artist Paul Hegarty to record and perform conceptual and themed works together. In 2010 he formed Strange Attractor with four artists from Ireland, Anthony Kelly, Danny McCarthy, Irene Murphy and David Stalling to use improvisational sound and experiment with technology and combined media in site-sensitive contexts. He has performed with various national and international sound artists and composers such as Rhodri Davies, The Quiet Music Ensemble, John Godfrey, Rajesh Meta, Pauline Oliveros, Karen Power, Steve Roden, Damo Suzuki, David Toop, Stephen Vitiello and Jennifer Walshe and has exhibited in UK, France, Spain, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Austria, Belgium, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Tasmania, USA, China and Japan http://www.thecollective.ie/mick-o-shea |
Mick @ SV 9. Photo by Robin Parmar
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Visual artist Irene Murphy is based in Cork city. She is one of the Domestic Godless trio who pursue culinary adventures and is a founder member of the Cork Artists Collective. She a director and founder member of The Guesthouse project.
“The world in which we exist is in a state of continuous motion and therefore variable and unknowable. My work practice employs transient and time based processes and different modes of operation in order to engage with the slippery nature of experience. I am interested in established keys of knowledge that mediate between perceptual information and us. Through a practice that is a form of continuous research and enquiry I use one or a combination of mediums and modes of operation that include performance, construction, assemblage, installation, food, photography, video, sound, drawing, collaborative projects, residential interventions and initiatives.” Irene Murphy http://www.theguesthouse.ie/ |
Irene @ SV 10. Photo by Robin Parmar
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Danny Mc Carthy studied at the National College of Art and Design. He currently lectures in Sound Art in the School Of Music and Drama, UCC as well as visiting lecturer and workshop facilitator in various institutions. He has pioneered both performance art and sound art in Ireland and he continues to be a leading exponent exhibiting and performing both in Ireland and abroad including SPAN2 in London and at "Hearing Place" in Melbourne, Australia. His work is in the collections of the Arts Council Of Ireland, Crawford Municipal Gallery and Limerick City Gallery and numerous other public and private collections in Ireland and abroad. In November 2007 he presented his sound and visual installation “(Re)sounding Memories /Watering The Plants” in Le Lieu Centre dArte Actualle Quebec,Canada where he also presented a live sound performance. In 2004 exhibited/performed in the prestigious TRACE Gallery Cardiff with a new work “Wild Oats & Cornerstones” .
His work has appeared on numerous C.D.s and has been broadcast widely on both radio and T. V.His work regulary appears on the programme NOVA Lyric FM and he has been the subject of several features on the programme.. He is a founding director of Triskel Arts Centre and of the National Sculpture Factory and is a director the Sirius Arts Centre Cobh. He is the recipient of numerous awards and bursaries from both the Irish Arts Council and Dept of Foreign Affairs, Culture Ireland and has represented Ireland abroad at various exhibitions. He is a First Prize winner in EV+A (selector Pierre Restany) More recent exhibitions include “Sounding The Town”(installation) and “Wa(l)king The Dream”(live sound performance with Viv Corringham) in the Sirius Arts Centre Cobh Ireland. . He has exhibited as part of the “Trace Retrospective 2000-05” in Franklin Furnace, New York. He is co editor (with Julie Forrester) of the book “For Those Who Have Ears”and as part of Cork2005 European Capital Of Culture he co curated (with David Toop) “Sound Out” a major international exhibition of sound art, he also edited the exhibition catalogue and CD . In 2006 he curated a CD entitled “Bend It Like Beckett” for Sound Works/Art Trail Festival to commemorate the Beckett Centenary. In 2006 he founded The Quiet Club (with Mick O Shea) a floating membership sound(art and electronics) performance group and they have presented works all over Ireland and also Europe, China, Japan, USA and Canada. www.soundoutin.blogspot.com |
Danny @ SV 10. Photo by Robin Parmar
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John Godfrey has been a composer, a performer, and a promoter of contemporary art music for more than 25 years. His praxis deals with composing, performing and listening as inseparable and often homologous acts; he is primarily interested in music in which such distinctions are minor or absent. He mainly composes for musicians with whom he can work closely, the collaborative process being essential to, and to an extent indistinguishable from, the act of composing; similarly, much of Godfrey’s output is in the form of improvisation, in which all three elements act synergistically.
His compositions have been performed in significant venues and broadcast in much of Europe, North America and Australasia. Many appear on CD (labels include Cantaloupe and Decca Argo). He creates music for both instrumental and electronic resources. He has written for a variety of ensembles, including the Bang On A Can All-Stars, Crash Ensemble, Bradyworks, Icebreaker and ‘MMM…’. Current compositional interests include spectral, spatialised and interactive soundscapes; Experimental Music; compositions as inductive performance environments; liminal acoustic events as musical material; and machine intelligence as applied to music. Godfrey has also been an active professional performer and promoter of New Music since 1989, when he co-founded the cutting-edge group Icebreaker in the UK. In 1997, he became a founding member of Ireland’s Crash Ensemble. In 2008, he established Quiet Music Ensemble, a group dedicated to experimental and improvised music. He has performed in numerous major venues and festivals worldwide. Many of his performances have been broadcast internationally, and are recorded on CD with labels including Nonesuch, Decca, and Cantaloupe. As an improvising musician, he has worked with many of Ireland’s free improvisors and Sound Artists and performed with renowned exponents such as Pauline Oliveros and David Toop. http://www.quietmusicensemble.com/ |
John @ SV 10. Photo by Robin Parmar
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