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Fluence
Alexander Harker
ER7 / Digital
‘Thoughts crystallise, become atmosphere. Ambiences contract, seize up, splinter. Everything within; the eye sees in all directions.’
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Music by Alexander Harker
Clarinet on Fluence: Jonathan Sage
Electric guitars and source recordings on Fractures: Alexander Harker
Sound engineering, production and mastering: Alexander Harker
Executive Producers: Garrett Sholdice & Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
Design: Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
Fluence was commissioned by Ergodos with funds provided by the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon.
ER7 © Ergodos, 2011 ergodos.ie
Not
Clive Wilkinson
ER5 / Digital
‘Not ideas, but changing light. Not the origin, or the
destination, but the journey. Not the conversation, but the look in the eyes. Not the heat of the fire, but the flicker of the flame.’ Not is a gently seductive work by the English composer Clive Wilkinson made using samples of the pianist Angela Hewitt performing Ravel.
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Composition & production: Clive Wilkinson
Mastering: Alexander Harker
Executive Producers: Garrett Sholdice & Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
Design: Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
Not was created using a single sample from a recording of Angela Hewitt performing ‘Oiseaux tristes’ from Maurice Ravel's Miroirs for solo piano. This recording appears on Hyperion CDA67341/2, and the sample is licensed courtesy of Hyperion Records Limited, London. www.hyperion-records.co.uk
The way we met
Ergodos Musicians & Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
ER4 / Digital and Limited Edition CD-R
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, with choreography by Liv O’Donoghue and film by Luca Truffarelli and Michele Ragni.
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Clíodhna Ryan and Emily Thyne, violins
Cora Venus Lunny, viola
Ailbhe McDonagh, cello
Malachy Robinson, double bass
David Bremner, piano
Recorded, mixed and mastered at Westland Studios, Dublin, Ireland in May 2011.
Producers & Executive Producers: Garrett Sholdice and Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
Recording, mixing and mastering engineer: Alwyn Walker
Design and photography: Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
Star
Maya Hombuger & Barry Guy
ER3 / Digital
‘Speak in the clearest of tongues. Each bow stroke a true arrow. Each thought crystallised and delineated. Each moment hand-finished, the larger shapes deliberate, concentrated, resolute. A rhetoric of illumination.’ Star features work by three Irish composers – Benedict Schlepper-Connolly, Garrett Sholdice and Simon O’Connor – performed by the much celebrated duo of Maya Homburger (Baroque violin) and Barry Guy (double bass).
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Mixed and mastered at Amplus, Aaigem, Belgium between December 2010 and March 2011.
Producers & Executive Producers: Garrett Sholdice & Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
Recording, mixing and mastering engineer: Johan Vandermaelen
Design: Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
Photography: Lucy Clarke
Immersia
Linda Buckley
ER2 / Digital
Immersia, is a gelid suite of ambient electronic music by Kinsale-born composer Linda Buckley. Like dusk in winter, Immersia is heavy with filmic atmosphere. Download the three-track album now from Bandcamp.
Dubh
Trio Scordatura
ER1 / Digital and Digisleeve
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Alfrun Schmid (voice)
Bob Gilmore (keyboard, radio)
Track listing
1 - Dubh - Linda Buckley
2 - Hush - Judith Ring
3 - Invocation - Enda Bates
4 - Marx - Scott McLaughlin
5 - Fliehen/nehmen – Garrett Sholdice
6 – It is not true... - Peter Moran
7 - Cyan - Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
A work of dark, gothic beauty, Dubh presents seven tracks by seven Irish composers: Linda Buckley, Judith Ring, Enda Bates, Peter Moran, Scott McLaughlin, Garrett Sholdice and Benedict Schlepper-Connolly.
Dubh captures Trio Scordatura at their variegated best. Alfrun Schmid (vocals), Elisabeth Smalt (violas) and Bob Gilmore (keyboard/electronics), create spaces both of astonishing intimacy and subtlety, and almost terrifying, textured expansiveness.
Dubh is about a certain generation of Irish composers, a generation that is finding its place between tradition and the modern world. A consistent atmosphere of slow-burning introspection prevails – an introspection arising out of a common preoccupation with the luxuriance of sound itself. Excursions beyond the Western equal-tempered scale are frequent, notably via the Adapted Viola, a viola designed by American maverick Harry Partch. These moments lend the overall work a rare harmonic depth and richness.
Recorded at Amplus Studios, Flanders, in sweltering summer 2009 and mixed/mastered in the snow-blizzard winter that followed, Dubh tells that there is always something other at work beneath the whitest landscape. In this, it celebrates difference, and the beauty in darkness.
