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Laura Hyland

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Ergodos presents Laura Hyland (vocals/guitar) and Seán Mac Erlaine (reeds/electronics) in an evening of intimate solo performances on 17 May at The Back Loft. The evening is part of the La Cat acoustic events series, made possible by an Arts Council Small Festivals grant.

Both soloists will perform in the atmospheric setting, part of La Catedral Studios. Hyland will perform completely acoustic, while Mac Erlaine will perform on a portable multi-channel rig designed by Dan Trueman, last year’s Fullbright Scholar at Trinity College.

Laura Hyland is a singer-songwriter interested in pushing the boundaries of what can be done with voice and acoustic guitar, and in blurring the line between composition and improvisation, both as a solo performer, and in collaboration with other musicmakers under the moniker, ‘Clang Sayne’- a group she founded in London in 2008. Her music has been described as “exhilarating in its refusal to conform”(The Wire), and “showing an uncategorisable approach to song craft” (Boomkat).

Seán Mac Erlaine is a Dublin based multi-instrumentalist and composer, recognised as one of Ireland’s most forward-thinking jazz musicians. Seán works in a variety of settings maintaining a busy performance schedule in Ireland and internationally.

The concert has been curated by Ergodos, the Dublin based music production company and record label run by composers Garrett Sholdice and Benedict Schlepper-Connolly. Ergodos presents regular concerts and releases the work of contemporary composers and musicians.

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Ergodos presents singing cellist Laura Moody on Tuesday 8 May 2012 at The Grand Social. An evening of dynamic experimental pop is guaranteed.

With the “demented howl of PJ Harvey and the idiosyncrasies of Joanna Newsom” (The Observer, 2009), Moody will play a set of original music performed and written by the acclaimed vocalist and cellist.

Moody will also premiere a new track composed for her by young Irish composer, and Ergodos co-director, Garrett Sholdice. My imagination is inspired by the music of Arthur Russell, a luminary in the New York downtown scene of the 70s and 80s, early pioneer of disco and also a uniquely talented singing cellist.

Fascinated not only with words and song writing but also with sounds, noises and textures, Moody uses the full sonic resources of cello and voice to create unique, acoustic music. She looks to combine the two instruments in interesting and often physical, even theatrical ways composing what she believes to be essentially pop songs.

Laura Moody’s songs are influenced by the many genres of music she has been involved with during her professional career, including beatboxing, electronica, classical and contemporary classical music and various kinds of pop music. As The Arts Desk noted of a recent performance, ‘It seemed almost as if she had taken every musical influence that had come her way and put them in a blender… certainly extraordinary and sometimes disturbing. But what surprised me most… was just how often it became mesmerising.’

This will be Laura Moody’s first time performing in Ireland since she brought the house down at the Crash Ensemble’s tenth birthday celebrations in 2007.

The evening is commissioned with funds from The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.

Tickets: www.entertainment.ie/grandsocial

Hear Laura’s music: www.lauramoodymusic.com

Ergodos Musicians return to the stage with a second performance of ‘I Call to You’ at the Model, Sligo on Sunday 1 April 2012. Centred around the music Johann Sebastian Bach, ‘I Call to You’ features both new works and arrangements by composers of the current cutting-edge in Irish composition: Jonathan Nangle, Simon O’Connor, Benedict Schlepper-Connolly and Garrett Sholdice.

More information and ‘I Call to You’ audio clips on our events page…

2012 is here, and for Ergodos it is starting off with another excellent new concert.

On January 31st, the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra will perform a programme of works curated by Ergodos co-director and composer Garrett Sholdice. Conducted by Gavin Maloney, the concert will take place at the National Concert Hall at 1:05pm.

Featured in the programme of this free concert are two world premieres – “Fall and Disappear” written by Sholdice and “Last Pictures” written by Ergodos co-director Benedict Schlepper-Connolly. Other composers on the bill include Feldman, Bach and Tenney.

The concert is one of the Horizons Contemporary Music Series, hosted regularly by the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra. Tickets available from the National Concert Hall. Full programme and notes for the January 31st concert are available here.

Garrett Sholdice’s Sonate was first released by Ergodos on our album Star earlier this year. It has now been selected to appear on The Contemporary Music Centre’s 10th compliation volume of Contemporary Music in Ireland. Garrett is interviewed on his experience with the piece here and the album can be purchased from the Contemporary Music Centre here.

We’re back in the studio thanks to the Music Network Ireland, to record a release of our upcoming performance I Call to You – a collection of new works and arrangements of Johann Sebastian Bach’s chorale prelude, Ich ruf’ zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, I Call to You.

We start recording this time next week for the release with musicians Cliodhna Ryan (violin), William Butt (cello), Jonathan Sage (clarinet) and Michael McHale (piano).

Composers of the Programme are of the current cutting-edge in Irish composition: Jonathan Nangle, Simon O’Connor, Benedict Schlepper-Connolly and Garrett Sholdice.

Recording concludes on Thursday, November 24th where we move to Castalia Hall in Ballytobin, Callan, Kilkenny for a performance of I Call to You as part of the Music in Kilkenny concert series.

Tickets are available from Susan Proud on 056 77 61 49 7, or on proudmus@eircom.net.

Full Ergodos Release will be available in early 2012.

See you in Kilkenny!

One does not need to invent, just to intervene.

This coming Friday, November 4th, Ergodos will present Intervention, the Autumn edition of our quarterly series at the Lab for Electronic and Performing Arts (LEAP) in Berlin.

Friday’s Ergodos production will feature two performances across the evening: Dublin-based percussionist-composer Dennis Cassidy and Berlin/NYC vocal duo Tryst.

We wish to celebrate the creative act of intervening on existing material to create something new and novel. An inherently performative concept, ‘intervention’ is perhaps now more than ever a defining metaphor in performance practice.

For more information on this FREE event and to reserve your tickets, head over to LEAP

See you there.

Ergodos | All the Ends of the Earth | Issue @ 110 Livingston, Brooklyn, New York | Thursday, October 6th | 7PM | €15/10

Ergodos Records has been back in the studio preparing its next release, Revelavit by Linda Buckley, featuring Michelle O’Rourke on vocals. The release will be available from Ergodos Records in early October; however for those of you who cannot wait, we have an excerpt to satisfy your intrigue

The recording of Revelavit has been celebratory as it arrives with Buckley’s appointment as Composer in Residence at RTÉ Lyric FM for 2011-2012.

The release of Revelavit will be alongside Ergodos’ All the Ends of the Earth tour, within which Buckley’s piece will be performed by Ergodos Musicians along with works by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly and Garrett Sholdice. All the Ends of the Earth will be an evening performance of the collective influence of the music of Magister Léonin.

All the Ends of the Earth will b at the Project Issue Room in Brooklyn, New York on October 6th, and moves to the Project Arts Centre in Dublin on October 29th.

Full details and press information for Revelavit as well as ticket information for All the Ends of the Earth tour will be available in the coming weeks.

Following the success of Immersia in April, Ergodos will continue an ongoing series of quarterly editions at LEAP (Lab for Electronic Arts and Performance) in Berlin’s Alexanderplatz.

The summer edition, entitled Counterpoint, will feature a performance of music for solo clarinet and playback by Ergodos Musicians clarinetist Jonathan Sage, alongside an interactive sound installation by acclaimed Irish composer Jonathan Nangle, and a new sound installation in celebration of the mix-tape.

‘My father is an architect and I am a composer. From time to time we talk about problems of design as they relate to our professions. This usually leads to his quoting the iconic German architect Mies van der Rohe: ‘Architecture begins when two bricks are placed carefully together.’ This simple, powerful statement always reminds me of the primacy of counterpoint in the craft of music. It makes me think of the medieval-period Latin origin of the word: punctus contra punctum – literally, “note against note”. Counterpoint is more than a musicological term with a plethora of historical understandings; it’s a profound and elegant idea, perhaps the elemental idea in all creative work.’ – Garrett Sholdice

See here for full information.

‘Thoughts crystallise, become atmosphere. Ambiences contract, seize up, splinter. Everything within; the eye sees in all directions.’ (more)

To coincide with the Reich Effect festival taking place in Cork between 27 and 31 July, Ergodos Records has released a new recording of Steve Reich’s New York Counterpoint, a work for eleven clarinets. Each clarinet part was recorded by Ergodos Musicians clarinettist Jonathan Sage – Sage’s innate feel for Reich’s pulsing and swinging rhythms make for a track that’s a head and shoulders above the competition. Purchase your copy from iTunes and download the complete artwork for free here.

Ergodos have released Not, a gently seductive work using sampled piano by Clive Wilkinson. Haunted by the ghost of the ‘sad bird’ in Maurice Ravel’s piano masterpiece Miroirs, Not is both an elegy and an atmosphere. Not was created using a single sample from a recording of Angela Hewitt performing ‘Oiseaux tristes’ from Ravel’s Miroirs. The looping of this sample against a shorter version of itself creates beautifully subtle rhythmic activity. The surface of the music is ever-changing, but its core is still, ever-poised. (more)

Ergodos Musicians feature on a new Ergodos Records release of work by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly. The way we met was commissioned by Liv O’Donoghue for a dance production of the same name at the Hawk’s Well Theatre, Sligo, Ireland, with choreography by O’Donoghue and film by Luca Truffarelli and Michele Ragni. (more)

The Kinsale-born composer, Linda Buckley, will have her music featured on a CD of Irish music presented to the visiting parties of Queen Elisabeth II and President Obama during their state visits to Ireland in May. (more)