2 Steep 4 Sheep (some hills are) for amplified harpsichord, sheep experts and tape was premiered by Jane Chapman as part of Harpsichordfest on Saturday 14th October 2006 at the Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall, Manchester.
Yearly Archives: 2006
Greenroom READY? residency
Sunday, December 17, 2006
HooH HaH Productions and Ailis Ni Riain are embarking upon an innovative collaboration, of sound-scape, voice theatre, film and live performance; combining both parties own specialist artistic capabilities and creative outlooks through an immersive performance-installation investigating the minutiae of life. Premiere Autumn 2007 at the Greenroom.
Soundlab Edition IV “Memoryscapes”
Sunday, December 17, 2006
StreetSong was selected for Soundlab Edition IV "Memoryscapes", launched on 17 October 2006. 135 sound artists and 200 soundart pieces are curated by Rainer Krause (Chile) to form "memoryscapes", landscapes of collective memory manifested via sound and music presenting the non-visual status of sound and music and its representation for an audience via an interactive [...]
Girls on Film
Sunday, December 17, 2006
Girls on Film – a network for female artists in the creative industries in the UK have launched their new website. Click here to read an interview with Ailis and here to see a profile.
StreetSong in Lou Reed’s Brain…
Sunday, December 17, 2006
StreetSong was presented on 22 September 2006 when 40 of Dublin’s leading museums, galleries, studios and theatres threw open their doors to encourage people who normally don’t do so to visit them and learn of the city’s rich cultural offering. Ailis Ni Riain's StreetSong as part of Lou Reed's Brain… See the Contemporary Music Centre [...]
Cubed3 Writers Residency
Sunday, December 17, 2006
Ailis was selected as one of twenty of the most promising UK based emerging writers to attend the Cubed3 Writers Residency at the Traverse Theatre Scotland's New Writing Theatre, Edinburgh in November 2006. Supported by the Scottish Arts Council.
Wounds, Scars, Screams
Sunday, December 17, 2006
Wounds, Scars, Screams at Unsafe 2 Festival of Improvised and Experimental Music, at the Lighthouse, Poole, 11th November 2006.
INTERACT 2006 in Denmark
Wednesday, August 9, 2006
Ailis was delighted to have been selected as one of five International composers who attended Interact 2006 in Roskilde, Denmark in August 2006 where she collaborated with video artist Sophie Hjerl and ensemble VOZ NUEVA to create a new piece of work that will tour Norway, Sweden and Denmark in 2007. She is grateful to [...]
Award at ICSM World Music Days 2006
Wednesday, August 9, 2006
StreetSong has been awarded joint-First Prize at the ICSM World Music Days 2006 Short Cuts Competition and was played at the Kunstmuseum, Stuttgart, Germany on 18th July. 200 works from 30 countries were submitted. Listen to StreetSong
Lyric FM broadcasts
Wednesday, August 9, 2006
StreetSong and DON'T! (for Bass clarinet and Cello) were broadcast on RTE's Lyric FM (Ireland) Nova in July and August.