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Episode 4 \u2013 \u2018Taking Toys Apart\u2019<\/p>\n
Teaser \u2013 Andrew Edgar takes us on a tour of the A4 Arts Collective.<\/p>\n
Part 1 \u2013 Ed Devane talks about the relationship between self taught musicians, hackers, artists and the \u201cnew music\u201d (contemporary classical music) establishment.<\/p>\n
Part 2 \u2013 The Dublin Laptop Orchestra introduce us to their own unique take on electronic music. Performing using digital setups with midi controllers, the group focus on making a performance which combines physical movement with electronic collaboration.<\/p>\n
Part 3 \u2013 Stewart Geelon of Luxury Mollusc & Primal Barber Quartet introduces us to the Dublin \u2018harsh noise\u2019 scene, where electronic improvisers taking their queue from industrial and early 20th century avant-garde music, create challenging dark soundscapes from found objects.<\/p>\n
Part 4 \u2013 Artist Aine Belton, talks about combining language and musical sound to enhance the impact of poetry and creative writing. Aine, a trained musician and visual artist, became fascinated with combining music, language and visual media. This work has resulted in a practice which includes instrument making and zine culture alike.<\/p>\n
Interjection \u2013 Ed Devane talks about sound as art, the different purposes behind experimental music, improvisation from a visual art \/ sound art background, and the creation of work that elicits a \u2018sense of awe\u2019.<\/p>\n
Part 5 \u2013 Dublin postpunk-neokraut-nowave-neopsychadelic multi-instrumentalist improvisers No!, discuss collaborations at their open door Concrete Soup Experimental Music Afternoons in Twisted Pepper.<\/p>\n
About the Series<\/p>\n
BAI logo mark colourMad Scientists of Music is a six part, BAI funded documentary series on Near FM. The show explores the world of Circuit Bending, Chip Tune, and Electroacoustic music in Ireland. Low cost technology, recycled instruments and a new attitude to tinkering embodied by the \u2018maker movement\u2019 are helping to reinvent music. A new generation of Irish musicians raised around computers, the internet and video gaming, see noise as something to be hacked, taken apart, and reconstructed. These artists build their own instruments, whether by recycling toy keyboards, modifying video game consoles, or attaching electronics to traditional stringed instruments. They often share their music online for free, and in doing so challenge our ideas about copyright and ownership. Their playful attitude to technology finds new uses for obsolete devices and brings the collaboration of musicianship to engineering and the arts.<\/p>\n
Tracks Used:<\/p>\n
Ed Devane \u2013 Arcane
\nEd Devane \u2013 Feedback
\nDublin Laptop Orchestra \u2013 Wakey Wakey
\nDublin Laptop Orchestra \u2013 Beater
\nDublin Laptop Orchestra Live recording (Rehearsal, Trinity College School of Music)
\nThe Primal Barber Trio \u2013 Live at Hunters Moon (curtesy of Deserted Village)
\nLuxury Mollusc \u2013 Live recording
\nBeets like \u2013 by Becca De La Rosa read by ESC Zine
\nSlinky \u2013 by Jessica Maybury via Craiglist read by ESC Zine
\n\u2018The Spoonwriter\u2019 by \u00c1ine Belton and Sharon White (2010)
\nNo! \u2013 Live recording (Twisted Pepper, Concrete Soup Music Afternoons)<\/p>\n
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