TransSextreme (2005), a tape piece comprising texts written and performed by Ailis Ni Riain alongside acoustic and electracoustic harp has been included in Deep Wireless 4 CD – a Canadian Radio Art Compilation. This is a commerical release available directly from Deep Wireless Festival of Radio Art TranSextreme has played through May in Process Gallery, [...]
Yearly Archives: 2007
TranSextreme selected for Deep Wireless, Toronto
Monday, May 7, 2007
TranSextreme (tape) has been selected for Deep Wireless, Toronto. May 1-31, 2007. As part of a month-long celebration of radio and transmission art, radio artists, sound artists and enthusiasts can experience performances, sound installations, new commissions, special radio broadcasts, a CD launch and conference. It will be broadcast in Process Gallery, Toronto for the month [...]
Award for EXIT
Monday, March 19, 2007
EXIT, a 45-minute music theatre work, was awarded 2nd Prize in the Vienna Masterworks Nancy Van De Vate Competition for New Opera in December 2006 (see here).
Elektramusik
Monday, March 19, 2007
The tape piece How Did It Feel? was selected for the January 2007 Elektramusic radio show for Experimental Music.
TILT
Monday, March 19, 2007
The New Works theatre company toured TILT, the debut play by Ailis Ni Riain to Liverpool, The Granary Theatre, Cork and Glasgow's Citizen Theatre in April and May 2007. TILT has been published by Nick Hern Books, the UK's leading specialist publisher of plays and theatre books. Click here to purchase TILT. CMC TILT Press [...]
About
Sunday, March 18, 2007
The Irish composer Ailis Ni Riain combines her interests in composing and writing to produce works which explore her myriad artistic interests. She is particularly interested in sound installation, voice theatre, public art, music-theatre & presenting contemporary music in diverse spaces. She has been represented by the Contemporary Music Centre of Ireland since 1999 and [...]
Into the Sea of Waking Dreams
Thursday, March 8, 2007
Living Composers: 60 miniatures was an avant-garde concert held on 9th March 2007 at The Space, 269 Westferry Road, East London. The event consisted of 60 specially commissioned one-minute piano pieces written by 12 cutting edge composers. It featured the premiere of Into the Sea of Waking Dreams, five piano miniatures by Ailis Ni Riain.
Composer’s Choice
Sunday, March 4, 2007
Monday 5th March 2007, National Concert Hall, Dublin An evening of contemporary music curated by Ailis Ni Riain, including a new commission from the National Concert Hall of Ireland, Surrealist Pilgrims, alongside works by composers Roger Doyle, Jurgen Simpson, Kevin Malone, Mussorgsky, Marian Ingoldsby and Jane O Leary. The programme includes the following compositions by Ailis Ni [...]
10,000 Deviants
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Contemporary Music ensemble ELEVEN presented the world premiere of 10,000 Deviants for speaker, flute and piano with texts by Ailis Ni Riain to a packed audience at East London's Vortex Jazz Club on 24th January 2007. Image: © Bob Stone