The Spatial Music Collective presents the Bridgewood Ensemble
The Spatial Music Collective presents the Bridgewood Ensemble
| Kaleidoscope / CMC Salon | Duo & Tape | Weds 25th April | Kevin Barry room, National Concert Hall, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2. |
| National Chamber Choir : An Irish Colloquy | Pauper's Lament / A Stealing Sadness | 18-22nd April | 18th April Calary Church, Kilmacanogue, Co Wicklow:19th April City Hall, Waterford: 20th April St Nicholas' Collegiate Church, Galway: 21st April Castalia Hall, Ballytobin, Co Kilkenny: 22nd April Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane |
| Crash Ensemble : Free State 7 | Calls from the Fog |
Thurs 5th April. |
Carlingford Heritage Centre, Co. Louth, St Ann's Church, Dawson St., Dublin 2. |
Past Events
| Electroacoustic Works | ||
| An Overture, an Elegy: for G. F. Handel | 4'44 | harp and live electroncs |
| Fly by Wires | 7'08 | hexaphonic guitar and live electronics |
| Searching for Home | 7'00 | violin and live electronics |
| Left, Right, Left, Right | 6'52 | hexaphonic guitar and double percussion |
| Duo & Tape | 12'01 | violin, cello and live electronics |
| Calls from the Fog | 6'00 | flute and live electronics |
| Invocation | 6'09 | mezzo-soprano and tape |
| Trio & Tape | 7'34 | viola, cello, double bass and live electronics |
| String Quartet No. I | 9'30 | string quartet and live electronics |
| Etudes 1-4 for hexaphonic guitar | hexaphonic guitar and live electronics | |
| A Lonely Place | 5'10 | voice and live electronics |
| Liminality | 8'02 | electric guitar and multichannel tape |
| Acoustic Works | ||
| from the cusp of sleep | 7'58 | string quintet (vln, vln, vla, cl, db) |
| Pauper's Lament / A Stealing Sadness | 6'30 | divisi choir (SATB x 2) |
| Minature for Harpsichord and Double Bass | 5'22 | Harpsichord and Double Bass |
| Sea Swell | 6'10 | divisi choir (SATBx4) |
| Electronic Works | ||
| Auto Harp | 11'00 | multichannel tape |
| Rise | 8'26 | multichannel tape |
| Flock | 10'14 | multichannel tape |
| Discordianism | 5'10 | multichannel tape |
| Point to Point | 7'05 | multichannel tape |
| Motions | 5'00 | multichannel tape |
| Haw haw | 4'17 | multichannel tape |
| Slow Miles | 10'25 | multichannel tape |
| Theatre & Multimedia | ||
| Sound Swarm | Sound Swarm is an interactive spatial music installation which was commissioned byt the Contemporary Music Centre for Culture Night 2010. The installation is a type of spatial music game in which the user directs the movement of the sound swarm in 3D space using a Nintendo Wii controller. The movement of individual particles in the swarm is modelled using the Boids flocking algorithm while gestures made with the Wii controller are used to control the position of an attract point which the entire swarm follows. The goal of the game is to direct this target point to the centre of the array by listening to the position of the sound swarm in auditory space. For more details, click here. |
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Remote Ears - Spatial Hearing |
Our two ears enable us to detect the direction of sound, helping create spatial awareness in the world around us. In this installation, a binaural microphone is positioned in the centre of the gallery and routed to multiple sets of headphones suspended over cafe seating area, allowing particapents to experience remote hearing. This work was part of the Biorhythm exhibition at the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland and more information can be found here and here. |
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Infrastructure / Flow |
infrastructure/flow was commissioned by Michelle Browne as part of Promenade , a series of performances along the seafront in Dublin, Ireland in November 2008. The piece was a response to a specific venue, the pump house at Clontarf, which was designed by Tom de Paor. The interior of this award winning structure houses machinery which pumps waste water from the surrounding area to a treatment plant further up the coast. It is usually inaccessible to the public. More> | |
| composer: Denis McNulty - live diffusion: Enda Bates - turntables: George Brennan | ||
If-Then-Else |
if() then() else() is a multimedia performance that combines traditional disciplines such as music, film and theatre, with technologies such as real-time video processing and multi-channel sound distribution. This performance is an adaptation of the video piece, if () then () else (), by Mike Liffey. More> | |
Strings, Tension & Flight - Enda Bates - April 2012 - Duo & Tape (with Cliodhna Ryan & Kate Ellis), Flock. |
Tronix One - Various (Diatribe Records) - April 2012 - Pulse (Legion of One Remix) |
The Brutal Here & Now - The Spook of the Thirteenth Lock (Transduction Records) - April 2012 - bass guitar, vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, accordian, electronics, co-producer. |
Pulse - Enda Bates (Diatribe Records) - February 2011 - Pulse for hexaphonic guitar and live electronics |
Dubh - Trio Scodatura (Ergodos) - August 2010 - Invocation - Enda Bates |
The Spook of the Thirteenth Lock - The Spook of the Thirteenth Lock (Transduction Records) - April 08 - bass guitar, vocals, sound design, recording and mix engineer. |
Trampolonica - Miriam Ingram (Go Away Recordings) - December 07 - contributed track, Red Shoes (Fairlights Remix). |
Of Pattern and Purpose - Somadrone (Trust Me I'm a Thief) - May 07 - additional recording |
Quarterworks - Fairlights (Alphabet Set) - March 07 - composer, recording and mix engineer. |
Scraps - Fairlights (Alphabet Set) - August 05 - composer, recording and mix engineer. |
Wooden Educational - The Alphabet Set - June 04 - contributed track, Fail - Fairlights |
Fuzzing Away to a Whisper - Somadrone (Trust Me I'm a Thief) - April 04 - additional recording |
The Deadweight E.P. - Fairlights (Independent) - September 03 - composer, recording and mix engineer. |
Works by Enda Bates
| "There was a delightful directness in the programmatic fidelity of Enda Bates’s From the Cusp of Sleep for string quintet – quartet plus double bass." More>> |
| Irish Times - Tuesday, Nov. 1st, 2011 |
| "Around the Room: Enda Bates' music for hexaphonic guitar brings together his formal training and rock influences." More>> |
| Journal of Music - Monday, May 30th, 2011 |
| "....Finally, a piece that sounded like taped electronics but was actually created live on electric guitar. In his Etude No 2 , Enda Bates submitted each string to independent electronic processing in an impressive one-man display." More >> |
| Irish Times - Thursday, August 09,, 2010 |
| "Enda Bates’s Miniature , for harpsichord and bass, ran like a piece of moto perpetuo writing with some wrinkles in the surface." More >> |
| Irish Times - Thursday, August 27, 2009 |
| "Bates’ was possibly the most crafted work of the evening, concise and efficient in its exploration of blocks of glissandi that climbed endlessly like the staircases in a M.C. Escher engraving." More >> |
| Journal of Music - September 2008 |
| "The approaching, electronically enhanced high-point of climbing glissandi in Enda Bates's String Quartet No. I grows from nothing and takes you by surprise as it intensifies, like the realisation that the crash-landing airplane is heading straight for you." More >> |
| Irish Times - Sat 6th June, 2008 |
| "Built around the ambitious musical vision of Allen Blighe and Enda Bates, The Spook manage to take their collective creative cool into new realms, along the way generating often exhilarating, often thrilling and near-orchestral compositions." |
| Rock n'Reel Magazine - June, 2008 |
| “Heart-pounding Pogues-esque moments, My Bloody Valentine’s fuzzy logic, indie guitar crescendos and Nick Cave’s solitary confinement rock…wonderful work” |
| State Magazine, July, 2008. |
| “One of the best pieces of contemporary Irish rock music we’ve heard in an age.” More>> |
| Irish Times - Saturday 14th June, 2008 |
Infrastructure / Flow
Invocation for voice and tape, performed by Trio Scodatura
Pulse - for hexaphonic guitar (Diatribe Records, 2011)
Pulse - Legion of One remix (Diatribe Records, 2011)
An Overture, an Elegy: for G. F. Handel - performed by Cliona Doris
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| Strings, Tension & Flight | The Spook of the Thirteenth Lock | Fairlights - Quarterworks | Tronix One - Diatribe Records | Dubh - Ergodos |