24th September 2009 - ISCM World New Music Days 2009
ISCM latest: Irish composers Fergal Dowling and Gráinne Mulvey represented Ireland in the 2009 ISCM World Music Days, held in Sweden over September-October. The works selected were Dowling's Manchester Material (Sun Oct 4th) and Mulvey's Stabat Mater (Tues Sept 29th).
Manchester Material (for 8 loudspeakers) is one of a series of multichannel studies in which Dowling uses algorithmic computer techniques to animate thousands of urban environmental samples -- recorded over a wide area throughout Ireland and Britain -- in a precise spatial choreography. It has also been selected for inclusion in the Japanese Society of Electronic Music / Musicological Society of Japan Electroacoustic Festival 2009. The work will be performed in the opening concert of electro-acoustic pieces at the Aichi Art Theatre, Nagoya on 9 April 2009.
Gráinne Mulvey's Stabat Mater for mixed choir was commissioned by the Cork International Choral Festival and first performed in 2003 by the National Chamber Choir under conductor Celso Antunes.
The ISCM World New Music Days 2009 took place between Sept 24th and Oct 4th, in three places: Visby, Växjö and Gothenburg. It was a showcase for contemporary music from over 50 countries worldwide, and continues the annual tradition of ISCM meetings begun in 1922. Full festival details on are available at www.listentotheworld.se.
The festival also included the General Assembly of the International Society for Contemporary Music, and AIC's Director John McLachlan attended this. His function there is to take part in decisions that affect the future of ISCM and the festival, to ensure Irish representation at ISCM activities and to have bilateral meetings with other ISCM partners (which frequently evolve into international concert exchanges). He also co-audits the ISCM accounts and is on the editorial board of ISCM's journal World New Music Magazine.
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