Jim Comic
20-08-2003, 16:05
TRISKEL ARTS CENTRE
presents
CRASH ENSEMBLE
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Friday 19 September, 8.00pm, €14.00
Triskel Arts Centre is delighted to welcome one of Ireland’s most innovative performing groups, Crash Ensemble. Crash Ensemble will bring together musicians, composers, video artists, choreographers and lighting designers, to create a dazzling mix of contemporary music and multimedia works. This performance will review the ensemble’s most popular pieces as part of a national tour.
Embarking on their first nationwide tour, Crash Ensemble will perform a programme of favourites from their repertoire, ranging from the hard-edged urban styles of Donnacha Dennehy’s Glamour Sleeper and David Lang’s Cheating, Lying and Stealing, to the austere Ice Etchings of Deirdre McKay and the dazzling virtuosity of Magnus Lindberg’s Ur.
Alongside these ensemble works are four solo pieces: the high energy Ik-Ook of Philip Glass (electronic keyboard) and Sole Injection of Zack Browning (amplified violin), along with the monumentally distorted Industry of Michael Gordon (cello) and the Irish premiere of a junk metal celebratory tour-de-force, Paddy, a solo percussion piece by Donnacha Dennehy.
“Bringing our particular repertoire and style to new audiences is an exciting prospect, and I hope the beginning of a new era of regular Crash performances throughout Ireland. In its short history since 1997, Crash Ensemble has developed a reputation for excellence and innovation in presenting new music in an upbeat, downtown type of way, and our blend of live music making with electronics, presented in innovative ways has captured the imagination of many.”
Fergus Sheil
Director, Crash Ensemble
Crash Ensemble play Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, Friday 19 September.
presents
CRASH ENSEMBLE
_________________________________________________________________________________________________
Friday 19 September, 8.00pm, €14.00
Triskel Arts Centre is delighted to welcome one of Ireland’s most innovative performing groups, Crash Ensemble. Crash Ensemble will bring together musicians, composers, video artists, choreographers and lighting designers, to create a dazzling mix of contemporary music and multimedia works. This performance will review the ensemble’s most popular pieces as part of a national tour.
Embarking on their first nationwide tour, Crash Ensemble will perform a programme of favourites from their repertoire, ranging from the hard-edged urban styles of Donnacha Dennehy’s Glamour Sleeper and David Lang’s Cheating, Lying and Stealing, to the austere Ice Etchings of Deirdre McKay and the dazzling virtuosity of Magnus Lindberg’s Ur.
Alongside these ensemble works are four solo pieces: the high energy Ik-Ook of Philip Glass (electronic keyboard) and Sole Injection of Zack Browning (amplified violin), along with the monumentally distorted Industry of Michael Gordon (cello) and the Irish premiere of a junk metal celebratory tour-de-force, Paddy, a solo percussion piece by Donnacha Dennehy.
“Bringing our particular repertoire and style to new audiences is an exciting prospect, and I hope the beginning of a new era of regular Crash performances throughout Ireland. In its short history since 1997, Crash Ensemble has developed a reputation for excellence and innovation in presenting new music in an upbeat, downtown type of way, and our blend of live music making with electronics, presented in innovative ways has captured the imagination of many.”
Fergus Sheil
Director, Crash Ensemble
Crash Ensemble play Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, Friday 19 September.