Frenzy: Dublin Sound Lab in Concert

“Dublin Sound Lab is doing an important job for those in Ireland who remain passionate about music in the post-war avant-garde lineage and who rarely get the opportunity to hear such ‘difficult’ music performed… …flying the flag in Ireland over the past decade for European modernism.” (Liam Cagney, Journal of Music)

In partnership with the Contemporary Music Centre, Dublin; Supported by the Arts Council; With the friendly support of Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.

Festival Director: Fergal Dowling;
Technical Supervision: Studio4;
Audio production: Fergal McKeown;
Lighting: Aidan Whelan;
Press: Conleth Teevan;
Production Assistant: Maeve Kelly;
Social Media Manager: Josh Gandharva;
Enquiries: info@musiccurrent.ie

Dublin Sound Lab is a contemporary music project group specialising in electronic and computer-mediated concert performance. As well as presenting existing works, we initiate collaborations and use computer-based techniques to explore relationships between compositional process and performance practice, and to create new and engaging concert experiences.

Formed in 2008 by composer Fergal Dowling and organist Michael Quinn, Dublin Sound Lab has worked with many leading Irish and international composers, performing works by: Ailis Ni Riain, Gérard Grisey, Salvatore Sciarrino, Kaija Saariaho, Luca Francesconi, Karlheinz Essl, Peter Ablinger, Mauricio Kagel, Wim de Ruiter, Ann Cleare, Scott McLaughlin, Barry Truax, Roderik de Man, Karen Tanaka, Jean-Claude Risset, Ed Bennett, Judith Ring, Gerald Barry, Jonathan Nangle, Jonathan Harvey, Rob Canning, Gráinne Mulvey, David Bremner, and Garth Knox, amongst others.

Music Current is Ireland’s most ambitious, adventurous and challenging music festival, presenting music that is new to Dublin audiences; multimedia music performances, theatrical performances and audio visual performances; music that has to be experienced.