PIMA! Fest presents Sounding Ennis, a communal table where we hear recordings made by Ennis residents. The recordings are combined and manipulated into a real-time generative soundscape, so it continues without start or end. Listeners are invited to sit around the table and plug in their headphones, sharing an experience that is both public and private. The table also acts as a light board, highlighting the community members who contributed the recordings. Sounding Ennis juxtaposes the different recordings to reveal differences and similarities of the diverse sonic experiences of the people of Ennis.
Sounding Ennis takes place in glór foyer, 10am – 3pm Daily
Bring your own headphones to listen. Free event, no booking needed
PIMA! Fest is produced by Music Generation Clare with the kind support of the Arts Council, Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board, Creative Ireland, glór and Clare County Council.
Sounding Ennis is supported by Clare County Arts Office
Kerry L. Hagan
Kerry is a composer and researcher working in both acoustic and computer media. She develops real-time methods for spatialization and stochastic algorithms, and studies the aesthetics and history of electronic music. She holds a Ph.D. in Composition from the University of California, San Diego, where she worked with Roger Reynolds, Chaya Czernowin, Miller Puckette, and F. Richard Moore. She also worked with Marc Battier at the Sorbonne as a Visiting Researcher. Current research includes real-time stochastic methods for music composition and sound synthesis, spatialization techniques for 3D sounds, and electronic/electroacoustic musicology. www.kerrylhagan.net
Nicholas Ward
Nicholas holds a PhD from the Sonic Arts Research Centre at Queens University Belfast. His research explores notions of physicality and effort in the context of digital musical instrument performance. Specifically he is interested in movement quality, systems for movement description, and their utility within a design context.
