Peter Ablinger Masterclass Contemporary Music Centre, Dublin, 18 September 2014
Austrian composer Peter Ablinger will attend the Contemporary Music Centre for a masterclass with six composers/sound artists on Thursday 18 September. Since the early 1980s, Peter Ablinger has explored new aesthetic and technical fields in his works, examining listeners' perceptions of sound, noise, timbre, performance context, and non-narrative forms through site-specific performances, installations, text-based works, instrumental and electronic collaborations (including his famous 'speaking piano' pieces), and music without sound.
Peter Ablinger will be visiting Dublin to oversee a Dublin Sound Lab performance of his site-specific work 'Places' (17 September 2014), specially rewritten for three Dublin spaces. This concert will be followed by a second programme, 'Responses' (18 September 2014), in which four Irish composers-Piaras Hoban, Gráinne Mulvey, Fergal Dowling and Rob Canning-respond to Ablinger's work. Both concerts are hosted in the Tiger Dublin Fringe Festival and begin at Temple Bar Gallery and Studios at 8pm.
Dublin Sound Lab and the Contemporary Music Centre invite Irish composers, sound artists and others to apply for participation in this masterclass by sending an expression of interest and work samples-scores, texts, recordings, graphic documentation, or other suitable materials-to info@dublinsoundlab.ie by 3 September. (For large files, please use Dropbox, WeTransfer, or other file sharing facility.) The masterclass is free to attend but is restricted to a maximum of six participants. The Contemporary Music Centre will cover travel expenses within Ireland within reason. Selected participants will be notified by 10 September and must be available to attend both concerts in Dublin, 17 and 18 September.
