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- NEW FARPOINT RECORDINGS EDITIONS COMING SOON - 
Secret Space CD, Book & DL - Benjamin Dwyer & Alison Grace Koehler

Launch-performances 7th June, James Joyce Centre, Dublin and 8th June, Pálás, Galway

Orpheus Down CD & DL by Ian Wilson - out 10th April
Dario Calderone and Gareth Davis will perform at DCU Lunchtime Concert series on April 10th, at Cork School of Music on 12th, and at the Sundays at Noon series, Hugh Lane Gallery Dublin, on 14th. 

Sonic Hauntings in a Big House - DL by Joseph Young - out 4th April

Launch event at Killruddery House, County Wicklow, Ireland, 4th April, 5.45pm. All welcome.

Always The Same, Never The Same

CD & DL from ensemble 0  -  Jean-François Brohée, Sylvain Chauveau & Florent Garnier

- OTHER NEWS -

wondrous worlds within/without interspecies gossip by Karen Power

Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, Cork, Ireland  Weds - Sat, sounds until 27.04.24, Admission free

An installation featuring sounds taken from past and recent field recordings made in the Arctic, Amazon, Namib Desert, Australian Outback, New Zealand, and Antarctica. The composition ebbs and flows as the layered sonic elements interact via eight speakers positioned in the gallery.  Keep an ear open for Karens new CD to be released on Farpoint Recordings.

Sparky Conversations #11 - "What is a Composer?" 

with sound artists and new music creators John Godfrey, Ellen King & Danny McCarthy

1st March, 2024, Contemporary Music Centre, Dublin, Ireland

When you hear the word 'composer', what are the meanings and associations that come up for you? How can we decide on a one size fits all description for an artistic profession? CMC's March Sparky Conversation is led by composer John Godfrey with contributions from Ellen King and Danny McCarthy. All welcome.

At Day’s End, the Whole Sky - Elva Mulchrone and Brian Duggan

23rd February – 29th March, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin, Ireland

Open Wednesday – Sunday 10.30am – 5pm. Last admissions 4.15pm. Admission free

At Day’s End, The Whole Sky brings together the work of Elva Mulchrone and Brian Duggan, two artists who approach their respective visual art practices in different ways, but with a common approach to rigorous research, examination of contemporary concerns and a commitment to a visual exploration of their understanding of such.
Brian Duggan & David Bremners collaborative work Demonstrable Progress will be released on Farpoint Recordings during 2024. 

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… brilliantly crafted, intellectually rigorous, some of the very greatest pure electronic works in this island at present.  
Bernard Clarke, Blue Of The Night, RTÉ lyric fm

 

Announcing vlz, a new CD by Victor Lazzarini available now from the Farpoint Recordings webshop

This album is, from many perspectives, a new departure for Victor Lazzarini. With it, he has rediscovered some of the music he has appreciated since his youth. It also marks a return to performance. As a pianist, synthesist, and keyboard player, he has played every single part that was recorded for each track of this collection. This allowed him to work through new compositions from an improvisation point of view, which is a practice he had not used for a long time. The title of the album somehow reflects this, as Lazzarini found a way of doing things that seemed to offer 
very low impedance in a metaphoric sense.

You can purchase your copy here

 

vlz will be launched at 7.30pm, 29th February at Riverstown Hall, Maynooth University, County Kildare with a short live performance by Victor Lazzarini. All are welcome to attend.

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New!  The Listening Group - The sonic as a representation of place

Co-curated by sound artists Joseph Young and Anthony Kelly (Farpoint Recordings)


2.00-3.30pm, Sunday 25th February 2024

Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, County Wicklow

Mermaid Arts Centre’s new sound art Listening Group launches with this inaugural live listen event featuring an exclusive sneak preview of Joseph Young’s forthcoming album Sonic Hauntings in a Big House, drawn from his recent PhD research project The Ancestors. A digital version of the album will be released 4th April on the Farpoint Recordings label with the physical version following later during 2024.

 

Through exploring the extensive family archive held at Bray’s Killruddery House & Gardens, Young devised both a geolocated soundscape in Killruddery’s grounds and this accompanying record, which further proposes a spectral glimpse of a lost past. In keeping with this investigation of place through audio, the live listen will be followed by discussion led by Joseph and Anthony, interspersed with audio clips from artists who have influenced their practice including Aeron Bergman, Mark Fisher & Justin Barton, Danny McCarthy, The Caretaker, Janet Cardiff, Laurie Anderson, Drew Mullholland, Peter Cusack, Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan, Cathy Lane, Pat Collins & Tadhg O'Sullivan, Chris Watson, Brian Harnetty, Ernest Hood, Dallas Simpson, Graeme Miller, Glenn Gould and Brian Eno.

With thanks to Anne Mullee, Mermaid Arts Centre

Free entry, booking required

 

The Listening Group will convene every four months with guest curators to be announced.

image from Sonic Hauntings in a big House courtesy of the artist

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Coming Soon!  Orpheus Down by Ian Wilson

Orpheus Down consists of ten movements, each relating to a specific part of Orpheus’ journey. The CD features detailed liner notes by Ian Wilson alongside images by photographer Doreen Kennedy and will be released April 10th. 

 

Orpheus Down will receive its premiere concert performances between April 10th and 14th in Ireland this year. Dario Calderone and Gareth Davis will perform at DCU Lunchtime Concert series on 10th, at Cork School of Music on 12th, and at the Sundays at Noon series, Hugh Lane Gallery Dublin, on 14th. 

 

The project is supported by the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealíon.

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Recent Release! Earth, Air, Water, Fire: A Poetry Soundscape - an ambitious new double CD

by Paul Kane & Katie O'Looney - available now from the Farpoint Recordings webshop

 

Paul Kane and Katie O'Looney present their ambitious collaborative double CD of composed soundscapes and poetry on the Farpoint Recordings label. Katie O’Looney’s soundscapes for Earth, Air, Water, Fire: A Poetry Soundscape are environmental in impulse and inspiration. The verse, while ‘philosophically serious’, is also ‘at times, witty and ludic in tone. Earth, Air, Water, Fire is an extended contemplation on not only the elements of our world—both outer and inner - but also on how that world is called into being and then lived most fully and skilfully. Similarly, the paintings of John Wolseley suggest an energetic spontaneity appropriate to a layering improvisation.

Physical release includes a double CD, 6 panel fold out ecopack with A4 size insert or poster option (let us know which you prefer); a digital version with full artwork pdf is available from the Farpoint Recordings Bandcamp outlet.

 

CD copies available from the Farpoint Recordings webshop

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Announcing -  The return of Strange Attractor

 

Strange Attractor regroup for a four date tour starting in Berlin and various cities in Poland during November 2023 as part of Anima Mundi 3. 

 

Strange Attractor : Irene Murphy, Mick O’Shea, Danny McCarthy, David Stalling, Anthony Kelly :
 Tour – Berlin, Szczecin, Gorzów & Poznań. 4 improvised durational performances as part of Anima Mundi 3, 2023  - Venues include Liebig12, Berlin (8.11); Trafo, Szczecin (9.11); Miejski Ośrodek, Gorzów (10.11) and Domie, Poznań (12.11).

 

More information from venue websites. Supported by Culture Ireland.

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Steve Roden 1964 - 2023

 

Farpoint Recordings are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of our friend Steve Roden. We have been great admirers of his work and were delighted to collaborate with him during 2011 as part of the ongoing Strange Attractor project. Steve contributed sound and writing to the project and we were thrilled to have him as our guest performer at the Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland. We became friends over the years and it was our great pleasure to work with Steve developing and releasing the pcahuilcsaigmon album on Farpoint Recordings.

 

May Steve rest in peace. We offer our heartfelt condolences to his wife Sari, and his family and friends.

Photo by Patricia Klich, left to right - Irene Murphy, David Stalling, Anthony Kelly, Mick O'Shea, Steve Roden, Danny McCarthy; Strange Attractor with Steve Roden, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork 2011.

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New! Adventurous sounds for curious ears - a new limited edition Farpoint Recordings T-Shirt bundled with a free download from the Farpoint Recordings Bandcamp catalogue

Adventurous sounds for curious ears - a limited edition black T-Shirt with silkscreen design on 100% cotton Gildan soft style shirt. Designed by Doreen Kennedy and silkscreened by our friends at Monotype. 

 

One size (Large) available for now, T-Shirt comes bundled with a randomly selected download from the Farpoint Recordings Bandcamp catalogue - all for just 19 euros!

 

Get your T-Shirt bundle from the Farpoint Recordings webshop here

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Sonic Vigil XI: In Your Own Time and Place

3 days of improvised music, film, sound art and movement

Cork Opera House & The Guesthouse, Cork, Ireland

14 - 16 September, 2023

 

Quiet Music Ensemble

Cork Opera House, 14th September, 8pm

Tickets 10 & 7 euros

 

The Quiet Club + Cathal Roche, Memory Echo (short film by Andrew Deutsch featuring Pauline Oliver’s)

The Guesthouse, 15th September, 6pm

Tickets 10 euro (including food)

 

Sonic Vigil with guest David Toop

Cork Opera House, 16th September, 12 - 6pm  Free Entry

 

David Toop, The Quiet Club, Cathal Roche, Karen Power, Quiet Music Ensemble, Danny McCarthy, Mick O’Shea, Irene Murphy, John Godfrey, Imna Pavon, Harry Moore, Vicky Langan, Anthony Kelly, David Stalling, Robin Parmar, Tony Langlois, Seán Taylor, Eimaer Reidy, Katie O’Looney, Anne Marie Decay, Claudia Barton, Andy Ingamells, David Bremner, Billy Kemp, Pierre Berthet + Rie Nakajima

 

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- New Release! -  Available now from the Farpoint Recordings webshop - 

Drinking The Stars - an ambitious double CD by John McLachlan

Mary Dullea plays the solo piano music of John McLachlan on a new double CD entitled Drinking the Stars. Spanning his output from the 1990s to today, it showcases his compositional style and how it evolves over that time. The music ranges across splinteringly direct virtuosity, sinewy counterpoint, rich chordal meditation and much else besides; yet we hear unity in the artistic voice. The interplay of sets of terse miniatures, medium sized meditations, and lengthier immersive pieces gives a layered feeling when listened through as a programme. The selection of pieces includes nearly all of McLachlan’s piano compositions intended for the concert stage (as distinct from his pedagogical works).

 

Mary Dullea’s superb range of tone and mastery of timing are captured clearly and cleanly by Chris Corrigan’s expert engineering, in recordings made in Belfast and Kilkenny. This CD makes it possible to hear many works that have been heard only in live concerts before, by many pianists, scattered across many countries and years, and it is a great place to get an overview of this composer’s musical landscape. 

 

The CD features detailed liner notes by McLachlan and beautiful images by renowned artist Joanna Kidney.

Special CD Bundle offer - Drinking The Stars & First

Take advantage of our special CD bundle offer and get Drinking The Stars along with John’s debut album First for only 25 euros. To avail of this offer please select Drinking The Stars + First under 'Bundle Option' in the Farpoint Recordings webshop.

Prefer Digital? The album is also available as a digital download (with a pdf booklet featuring full liner notes and images) and streaming via Bandcamp.

 

CD Copies of Drinking The Stars available to purchase here

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- New Release available now in the Farpoint Recordings webshop! - 

According To the Moon by Sarah Album & Gayle Young 
CD is now available from Farpoint Recordings & Ars Subtilior

Canadian artist Gayle Young's unusual and imaginative approach as composer and musician situates her within a long lineage of maverick experimentalists. Though Young's output does not shy away from more conventional modalities as well, since the 1970's she has variously embraced electronics, graphic/text scores, installation, sophisticated tuning systems outside of equal temperament, the sounds of found objects and natural environments, and - perhaps most notably - instruments of her own invention. 

 

According To The Moon sees Young collaborating with Montréal-based vocalist Sarah Albu, one of Canada's most dedicated and curious performers of contemporary and experimental music. The disc follows another release from last year for Farpoint Recordings & Ars Subtilior As Trees Grow, which featured her piano music performed by Xenia Pestova Bennett and Ed Bennett. 

Copies of According To The Moon available to purchase here

 

For further information on their collaboration, you can read Sarah Albu's article for Musicworks magazine, Gayle Young's Gentle Interventions

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Forthcoming Farpoint Recordings editions for 2023 / 24 includes releases by

John McLachlan, Sarah Albu & Gayle Young, Ensemble 0 (featuring Sylvain Chaveau, Jean-François Brohée & Florent Garnier), Phil Maguire, Joseph Young, Danny McCarthy, Katie O'Looney & Paul Kane, Anthony Kelly & David Stalling, Mick O'Shea, Benjamin Dwyer & Alison Koehler, Harry Moore & Katie O'Looney, Karen Power, Victor Lazzarini. 

 

Drop back soon for more updates!

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Farpoint Recordings wish all our kind supporters seasons greetings and a very happy 2023

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New Release  Mixed Circuits by David Bremner - available now!
 

Rigorous and delicate treatment of four new works... excellently performed and documented... flavours that evoke the machine-like strand in the work of György Ligeti...

Michael Dervan, music critic and Irish Times contributor

 

David Bremner’s ambitious double CD Mixed Circuits is now available from Farpoint Recordings. Each of the four works on this double-album is a cycle of several short movements or panels, investigating a single impulse: the exploration of a minimal, drone aesthetic through an atonal harmonic fabric of continuous gradual unfolding. Gesture and rhetoric are avoided in favour of a flickering presence, with imperceptible transitions.

Get your copy priced at 16 euros from the Farpoint Recordings webshop

 

Mixed Circuits is available in CD and digital formats. The double CD version comes as a limited edition 6 panel fold-out eco pack sleeve and a 36 page booklet with extensive liner notes. It is published as a first edition of 500 copies.

The album is also available as a digital download (with a pdf booklet of the full album artwork featuring images, poems & liner notes) via Bandcamp, Apple Music and Spotify.

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Album launch, The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, 12pm on Sunday December 11th, 2022

Mixed Circuits, David Bremner's portrait album will be launched at the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin as part of the Sundays @ Noon series, at 12pm on Sunday December 11th, 2022.

The launch will consist of concert performances by Andreea Banciu (viola), Elizabeth Hilliard (soprano), Paul Roe (clarinet) and Izumi Kimura (piano) of some of the music from Mixed Circuits. This launch programme presents the world premiere of the most recent work on the album, Possible Vignettes, and an excerpt from Bremner’s 2014 song-cycle Logical Fallacies for soprano and viola on texts by Irish poet Billy Mills.
 

All are welcome to come along, hope to see some of you there!

 

Copies of the album are now available in the Farpoint Recordings webshop for just 16 euros

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New Release  Amnestic Continuum by Arash Akbari - available now from Farpoint Recordings 

 

Amnestic Continuum is a concept album and a multidisciplinary project that utilises data sonification, data visualisation, and literature to critique the hidden external effects of the increasing hegemony of computation and automation on life on earth.

 

Copies are now available from the Farpoint Recordings webshop for just 15 euros

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Amnestic Continuum is available in CD and digital formats. The CD version comes as a limited edition 32 page book featuring a ten track CD, images by Arash Akbari and poems by Christopher Doherty-Ingram. It is published as a hand-numbered first edition of 300 copies and available from the Farpoint Recordings webshop

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Amnestic Continuum is also available as a digital download (with audio & pdf booklet featuring images by Arash Akbari and poems by Christopher Doherty-Ingram) from the Farpoint Recordings Bandcamp page

Watch a short video work for the track No Life Worse Lived in the player above.

The video features ambisonic audio and can be experienced using headphones with or without VR headsets.

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- Coming soon from Farpoint Recordings - 

Mixed Circuits by David Bremner - New double CD and album launch at Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin

On December 11th, 2022, David Bremner’s double album Mixed Circuits will be released through Farpoint Recordings. The double CD features various chamber music combinations of four stellar performers: Andreea Banciu (viola), Elizabeth Hilliard (soprano), Paul Roe (clarinet) and Izumi Kimura (piano). Included are two song-cycles, with texts by Bremner’s long-standing collaborator Billy Mills, and Rosmarie Waldrop. 

 

The album will be launched at the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin as part of the Sundays @ Noon series, at 12pm on Sunday December 11th, 2022. The launch will consist of concert performances of some of the music from the album. All are welcome to come along.

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Out Now - Invisible Resistances by Izumi Kimura & Cora Venus Lunny

It might not give itself up entirely easily, but the most interesting music rarely does... richly rewarding.
Ian Patterson, All About Jazz

The empathy between the pair is astounding, and the breadth of the exploration a delight.
Alan O'Riordan, The Irish Examiner

We are delighted to announce the latest release from Izumi Kimura & Cora Venus Lunny. Invisible Resistances is a new CD of improvised explorations featuring piano by Izumi Kimura and violin & viola by Cora Venus Lunny - nine dazzling improvisations that further push the dialogue between these two performers creating new sonic experiences that are intimate, yet bold and elemental. 

 

Available now for only 14 euros from the Farpoint Recordings webshop

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Published in a first edition of 500 copies, the Invisible Resistances CD comes as a full colour 4 panel eco-pack gatefold sleeve and insert sheet featuring photography by Doreen Kennedy and Anthony Kelly. The insert is available in two versions – folded and included inside the CD sleeve, or flat, as a limited edition A4 size poster. 

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Take advantage of our bundle offers and get the Invisible Resistances CD along with 2021’s critically acclaimed Folding album on CD or Vinyl. Options include Invisible Resistances CD & Folding Vinyl for €30.00 and Invisible Resistances CD & Folding CD for €26.00

 

You can purchase your bundle offer from the Farpoint Recordings webshop

 

Invisible Resistances is also available as a download from the Farpoint Recordings Bandcamp page

You can read Ian Patterson's (All About Jazz) review of Invisible Resistances here

 

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Out Now!  As the quiet crow flies - The Quiet Club + crOw - new expanded edition

A digital reissue of The Quiet Club + crOw 2016 release As the quiet crow flies, now with a new 24 minute extra track along with redesigned and expanded artwork. 

 

The confluence of one of 2015’s worst storms, a consequently stranded singer and postponed sound-check, and proximity to the home of Mr Roche resulted in the whiling away of an unexpectedly free evening in each other’s good company. Much listening and some making of sounds resulted in As the quiet crow flies.

 
Quietly...The Quiet Club + crOw reconvened and recorded a session at Library House, Dean Street, Cork on 15th October 2016 in advance of a national tour, now included in this expanded version of the original album. As the quiet crow flies is the result of a collaboration between two of Ireland’s most innovative duos – The Quiet Club (Danny McCarthy & Mick O'Shea) and crOw (Ian Wilson & Cathal Roche).
 

 

Digital - Available from the Farpoint Recordings Bandcamp page 

Physical - Copies of the original CD version of this album are available from the Farpoint Recordings webshop 

CD purchase includes a free download of this expanded digital edition!

... the quiet and understated music in these grooves ... is a slow and thoughtful exploration of sonic interplays and long tones…the listener can’t help but hear echoes of weather and oceans (and the cries of seagulls) in these abstract sounds. This may indicate that these players, unlike some more recondite EAI players, have not lost sight of some basic truths which help to root their work in the real world, and they’re not afraid to tell stories in their music. This is refreshing; one gets tired of all that non-associative music, which often ends up blank and empty, and As the quiet crow flies is bound to connect to any human being who has travelled overseas, gone for a solitary walk on the hills, or even simply gone outside.

 

Ed Pinsent, The Sound Projector

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ARTISTS FOR PEACE
Farpoint Recordings

 

Farpoint Recordings has created a new twenty-four track digital album to help raise humanitarian aid for the people of Ukraine, bringing together artists associated with the Farpoint Recordings label. All proceeds from this unique twenty-four track digital album go to UNICEF and the Irish Red Cross. 

 

Priced at just just 10 euros, the collection is now available
from the Farpoint Recordings Bandcamp page

 

The album features contributions from leading Irish and international artists including: 

Christina Kubisch, The Quiet Club, Danny McCarthy, Mick O’Shea, John McLachlan, Rosa Arrutti aka Nad Spiro, Schirin Nowrousian, Anthony Kelly, David Stalling, Benjamin Dwyer, Karen Power, Harry Moore, Fergus Kelly, Quiet Music Ensemble, John Godfrey, Izumi Kimura, Cora Venus Lunny, Joseph Young, Greystones Orchestra, Ian Wilson, Jennifer Walshe aka Freya Birren, Viv Corringham, Katie O’Looney, Paul Kane, Linda O’Keeffe, David Toop, Strange Attractor, Stephen Vitiello, Doreen Kennedy and Seán McCrum

 

The audio is accompanied by a specially designed thirty-two page digital booklet containing track-listings, artist information, photography and a short essay about peace by Seán McCrum.

 

Help support those affected by the conflict in Ukraine by purchasing this unique collection of contemporary sound and music. The album costs just 10 euros from the Farpoint Recordings Bandcamp page

 

...a wonderful new 24 track digital compilation album from Dublin's Farpoint Recordings 
Electronic Sound magazine

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