The Whispering Gallery Love of Moving Parts
MUSIC
The Whispering Gallery’s
Love of Moving Parts
By Cathal Roche
Mon 04 July | 8pm
Tue 05 July | 1:30pm
Cathal Roche, image by Daragh-Stewart
Event Details
Times & Dates:
Mon 04 July | 8pm
Tue 05 July | 1:30pm
Duration:
60 minutes
Event Categories:
Music
Admission:
€12
Venue:
The Nest
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An immersive music performance-installation for solo performer, community voices & woodwind octet.
Over the past two years composer and saxophonist Cathal Roche invited the people of Sligo to leave anonymous voice messages describing their experiences of discovery and loss during the pandemic. The Whispering Gallery project, based at The Model Sligo, invited people to visit and record their voices in person or online. The resulting collection of bits and scraps of transatlantic testimony offers the listener a rainbow of moving voices, woven together.. pulled apart.. in search of music, love, healing and understanding.. Roche on 9 woodwind instruments (bass flute to baritone saxophone) plays counterpoint to feeling and leads when the words fail.
‘Love of Moving Parts’ for solo saxophone and multi-tracked ensemble takes place in a 32-speaker dome (low light).
Cathal Roche is an improvising saxophonist and composer specialising in spatial and immersive works for multi-tracked soloist and community voices. He has shown performance-installation work at galleries such as the Centre of Contemporary Art, Torin, Poland and the Model Arts, Sligo, and has collaborated as an improvising soloist with the Vanbrugh and ConTempo String Quartets, Irish Gamelan Orchestra and many other ensembles. His music has evolved spatially through his development of the Whispering Gallery, a portable 32-speaker listening dome adaptable for large or small spaces. The artist gratefully acknowledges the support of the Arts Council of Ireland in the development of this work.