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Donnacha Dennehy - Elastic Harmony | NMC Recordings NMCD133

Donnacha Dennehy - Elastic Harmony

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Label: NMC Recordings

Cat No: NMCD133

Barcode: 5023363013321

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 11th June 2007

Contents

Works

Dennehy
Glamour Sleeper

Dennehy
Paddy

Dennehy
Junk Box Fraud

Dennehy
Elastic Harmony

Dennehy
pAt

Dennehy
Streetwalker

Artists

Joanna Macgregor
Tatiana Koleva
Crash Ensemble
Ensemble Integrales
Darragh Morgan
National Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Gavin Maloney

Works

Dennehy
Glamour Sleeper

Dennehy
Paddy

Dennehy
Junk Box Fraud

Dennehy
Elastic Harmony

Dennehy
pAt

Dennehy
Streetwalker

Artists

Joanna Macgregor
Tatiana Koleva
Crash Ensemble
Ensemble Integrales
Darragh Morgan
National Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Gavin Maloney

About

A resident of Dublin, Donnacha Dennehy is something of an internationalist, having studied music composition in Ireland and the USA before pursuing further studies in electronic music at the Hague and at IRCAM in Paris. His work has been widely performed in the USA, throughout Europe and Scandinavia by ensembles including Bang On A Can All-Stars, London Sinfonietta and Orkest de Volharding.

Dennehy founded the Crash Ensemble in 1997 to concentrate on the newest music exploiting multimedia and it was for their first concert that he wrote the uproarious and infectiously upbeat Junk Box Fraud. The piece is described by the composer as “a celebration of junk and an inquiry into our relationship with technology”. The vocalists—one of whom has her hair dyed blue and the other red—make percussive rhythms and noises accompanied by piano and tape playing a steady stream of sixteenth-notes, cross-accents and off-beat stabbed chords, creating an angular feel. The text was specially written by the Donnacha’s father, Denis. To use the composer’s own words, “There is a whiff of high-class vandalism about my work”; combining traditional sonorities and instrumentation with driving rhythms, inventive wordplay, electroacoustics and experimental styles of composition, Dennehy’s work is vibrant, original, sometimes challenging and refreshingly different.

“Streetwalker includes this composer’s characteristic mixture of urban sounds and tight, multi-layered rhythms. But there is nothing routine about it. Subtle and unusual pitch-bending techniques intersect with, and help to trigger some of the most kaleidoscopic sounds of this concert. The sense of purpose gives special potency to surprising twists and turns in a work which stood up with the best of those in the concert.” Irish Times

“One of the most engaging musical voices of our new century” Bob Gilmore

“The Irish new-music band [Crash Ensemble] … plays with the energy and spirit of a rock group” New York Times 2007

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