Elastic Harmonic, by Donnacha Dennehy

Elastic Harmonic

by Donnacha Dennehy

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1.	Ensemble Integrales - Glamour Sleeper 10:32	buy track
2.	Tatiana Koleva - Paddy 07:50	buy track
3.	Crash Ensemble - Junk Box Fraud 12:39	buy track
4.	Darragh Morgan, RTE National Symphony Orchestra, Gavin Maloney - Elastic Harmonic 13:11	buy track
5.	Joanna MacGregor - pAt 11:00	buy track
6.	Crash Ensemble - Streetwalker 11:07	buy track

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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.

'Giddy, visceral urban techno avant-gardism' Gramophone

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released June 4, 2007

Glamour Sleeper was recorded in Illingen, Germany in May 2003.
Recorded by SAARLÄNDISCHER RUNDFUNK Saarbrücken.
Producer: WOLFGANG KORB for for Saarländischer Rundfunk.
Editor: MARKO CICILIANI

Paddy was recorded in Harlem, The Netherlands in 2003.
Engineer: GUIDO TICHELMAN
Producer: RUTGER VAN OTTERLOO

Junk Box Fraud was recorded at Pulse Studios, Dublin in 2000, and Streetwalker at Westland Studios, Dublin in 2004.
Producer: DONNACHA DENNEHY
Editors KIERAN LYNCH and DONNACHA DENNEHY

Elastic Harmonic was recorded in the National Concert Hall, Dublin on 30 January 2007.
Engineer: ANTON TIMONEY
Producer: DONNACHA DENNEHY
Supported by RTÉ

pAt was recorded at RTÉ Studios, Dublin in 2001, with the kind assistance of Lyric FM.
Producer & editor: DONNACHA DENNEHY

Elastic Harmonic (P) 2007 RTÉ
Glamour Sleeper (P) 2007 SAARLÄNDISCHER RUNDFUNK Saarbrücken.
All other works (P) 2007 NMC Recordings Ltd.

Catalogue number: NMC D133
Release Date: 4 June 2007

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Donnacha Dennehy Princeton, New Jersey

Donnacha Dennehy’s music has been featured in festivals and venues around the world. Returning to Ireland after studies abroad, principally at the University of Illinois, Dennehy founded Crash Ensemble, Ireland’s now-renowned new music group. He joined the music faculty at Princeton University in 2014. In recent years, Dennehy has concentrated especially on large-scale musico-dramatic works. ... more

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