... reality-particles; image & sound in nature. IMRAM, a national literary festival in Ireland, in association with the Dublin City Arts Centre, will present "tríd an gcoill" by Séamas Cain and Slavek Kwi.
This Installation with recorded or live performances will take place at 1:00 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. from September 23 through September 27, 2010 at the Grapevine Space of CITY ARTS, 15 Bachelor’s Walk, Dublin 1, Ireland. The Opening for "tríd an gcoill" will be held at 1:00 p.m. on September 23. Admission is free. For additional information phone Nick Reilly at CITY ARTS, i.e., Phone (+353)(1)902.2414 ... http://www.cityarts.ie/events/2010/09/23/-trid-an-gcoill tríd an gcoill "through the woods" A collection of reality-particles; sounds and images from Dromore Woods. An audiovisual installation, with recorded or live performances. tríd an gcoill, a 120-page poem by Séamas Cain, is itself a poetic field recording. It evokes a walk through Dromore Woods in County Clare. It immerses the reader in a stream of words and word-clusters. The overall effect is hypnotic, as we are led by a piped piper into the heart of the wood. Czech sound-artist Slavek Kwi has created an audiovisual installation from underwater and field recordings captured in Dromore Woods itself, and fused these elements with Séamas Cain's chanted recital of tríd an gcoill. This installation with performances will be open to the public in City Arts, with Free Admission. tríd an gcoill creates a unique space in which one can experience nature and language through sounds and visions of uncanny beauty. Séamas Cain is an Irish-American experimental poet, a friend and colleague of Jean Genet and Allen Ginsberg. One of the most radical voices in modern literature he writes in Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Old Celtic, Spanish and English. For additional information, go to ... http://seamascain-writernetwork.org Slavek Kwi is a Czech sound-artist, composer and researcher. From the early nineties he has operated under the name "Artificial Memory Trace." For additional information, go to ... http://www.artificialmemorytrace.com Seamus Johnson described Cain's recorded chantings of tríd an gcoill for this Installation as "incantatory, rhythmic, passionate, guttural, mezmerizing. Cain is the baritone ascending to Apollo. Or, is he the baritone ascending Mt. Carmel? He does tend to get carried away in performance, lost in a kind of trance, at times in the passion of the moment whacking the microphones. Indeed, Cain's performance is hypnotic! Plenty of auditory images! And plenty of rich and diverse sounds to be chopped up for computer-randomization!" Slavek Kwi used chance operations to distribute the fragments of Cain's chantings in various speakers of a vertical Speaker Tree, which doesn't brake the continuous chanting, but changes the architecture as texture and dynamics. Also, Kwi used chance operations on the distribution in speakers of the timbre of Cain's chantings. Kwi's Installation includes a color film, with parts of the text of the tríd an gcoill poem superimposed in scrolling effect over images from Dromore Woods, a slide-show with 1,500 slides, an environmental soundtrack on external 5.1 system and also a Voice Tower, all edited using chance operations. Kwi's Installation also includes physical objects from Dromore Woods. For additional information, go to ... http://www.cityarts.ie/events/2010/09/23/-trid-an-gcoill http://www.artificialmemorytrace.com http://www.freewebs.com/seamascain/liamcarsonsreview.htm http://www.freewebs.com/seamascain/questionsanswers.htm http://alazanto.org/seamascain http://www.saorsainn.net _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
