The Elongated Path

Steve Ashby & Daniel Barbiero – The Elongated Path The five pieces making up The Elongated Path, bear the sometimes overt and sometimes covert influences of the three seasons of winter, spring and summer. The pieces were constructed of composed and improvised double bass performances from January and June, 2017, to which were added […]

Premiere of Kerry Hagan’s Agus í á bá

Earlier this year, I was invited to perform electronics for the premiere of Kerry Hagan’s piece Agus í á bá, (As she drowned,). The piece was commissioned as part of the CMC Composer Lab, and performed by the RTE National Symphony Orchestra in Dublin.

the study bay

a place set aside for contemplation, repose, pause. an area for discovering the connection of space and time through extended listening. study bay is a sound installation investigating the Japanese aesthetic of ma (pause, space, emptiness) and it relationship with the practice of deep listening. Across a six channel array, study bay is a generative […]

duet

Duet is a sound installation investigating the Japanese aesthetic of ma as a centralizing concept of the composition of spatialized sound. Presented in the 32-channel speaker array of the University of Limerick’s SpADE (Spatialization and Audio Display Environment) lab, Duet elaborates on ma’s intention towards the sounding of emptiness as a space between things. Ma […]

Spatial Audio Workshop – EMPAC

A few pics from the Spatial Audio Workshop I had the pleasure of attending at EMPAC last week.

Rice River recording

Thursday afternoon, I had the pleasure of tagging along with my friend Vaughn Garland’s Sound Ecology class.

Sigur Ros

stellar as usual…

Radical Listening with Lawrence English

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of attending “Radical Listening”, a workshop on field recording presented by Lawrence English. After an engaging discussion on the “agency of listening”, approaches to field recording, a rig rundown from the previous night’s performance, a brief history of field recording, and a fair dose of nerdy gear talk, the group, led by […]

Into whispering pines

Introducing my newest work “Into whispering pines”. A score to old home movies. a contemplation of memory. like sound and music – a temporal experience. in their original state, these home movies are silent. No sound, just the remembrance of childhood and family vacation. The score for each is an invitation to participate in the […]

Pump House sound collection, pt. 2

Yesterday, a second excursion to record the old Pump House was made. Attention this time around was focused on binaural recordings, and smaller sounds, isolated spaces and drips.