Boy You Turn Me is a new collaboration with the Writer David Gaffney (Salt Publishing & Tindell Press) commissioned by the Birmingham Book Festival and funded by the PRS for Music Foundation and Arts Council England. A unique, inner and outer layered sound installation and new literature work exploring the hidden life of an empty [...]
Yearly Archives: 2011
New commission for duoDorT
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Ailis has been commissioned to compose a new piece for piano duo duoDorT. She has decided to create a new instrument called The Pianvoglass inspired by a new drawing by visual artist Zeke Clough for this commission. The new piece will be further developed as part of a Residency with duoDorT at Aldeburgh Music, Suffolk [...]
StreetSong to be released on CD
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
StreetSong, a sound-installation commissioned by the Contemporary Music Centre of Ireland in 2007 will be released on CD later this year. It was commissioned to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the CMC in Temple Bar, Dublin and won 1st prize at the ISCM World Music Days Short Cuts competition in Stuttgart in 2007. It has [...]
TAKEN on BBC 4′s Woman’s Hour
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
TAKEN was featured on BBC 4′s Woman’s Hour on 15th July 2011. TAKEN is a sound installation comprising 12 humming voices and harp for Clitheroe Castle ‘Keep’ in East Lancashire, Northern England based on the last days and hours of the Lancashire Witches as they were held captive awaiting trail where they will subsequently hung. Listen. “It [...]
TAKEN is Launched
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Contemporary Heritage: A new way of seeing is an ambitious programme of site-responsive commissions at historic sites across Pennine Lancashire. The interventions, inspired by Pennine Lancashire’s heritage, animate each site and offer visitors a rare chance to experience major works by artists of national and international standing outside urban centres. TAKEN, by Composer Ailis Ni Riain [...]
Performance at Hebden Bridge Arts Festival
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Ailis performed extracts of her Cornerhouse/AND Festival commission, Brief-Blue-Electric-Bloom with classical guitarist Tom McKinney as part of his guitar recital at Heptonstall Church, 1pm, Saturday, 9th July, 2011. Described as ‘total enchantment’ and ‘mysteriously charming’.
Drake ‘Music in Translation’ Film
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
‘Distant Interiors’ was commissioned by Drake Music and created in Spring 2011 by three artists investigating translation and interpretation via remote collaboration. Melanie Clifford, Ailís Ní Ríain and Rebecca Key communicated via email, file-sharing and the DMIT blog. Watch ‘Distant Interiors’ here: Drake Music in Translation
Brief-Blue-Electric-Bloom selected for Decibel Showcase 2011
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Brief-Blue-Electric-Bloom has been selected for the Decibel Performing Arts Showcase in September 2011. The work is a unique piece of music-theatre that combines interpretive sign-language, poetry, contemporary classical music and film, where each element fuses seamlessly to tell of how love breaks down, it is the first time I have explored my hearing impairment in [...]
Motiroti ‘What Counts’ commission
Sunday, May 15, 2011
A new commission from London-based arts organisation Motiroti, Pulse will be a multi-strand piece of work by Ailis Ni Riain which invites people/musicians to record the precise tempo of their pulse on their instrument of choice. Ailis’ ‘Pulse Prelude I’, is based on 7 ‘pulses’ submitted by people interested in the project. was unveiled as part [...]
Clitheroe Castle Commission
Monday, April 4, 2011
TAKEN The second Contemporary Heritage Commission from Mid-Pennine Arts which will result in a new acousmatic composition for harp and humming by twelve local voices. It will premiere at The Keep at Clitheroe Castle in June and run until March 2012 and is inspired by the Lancashire Witch Trials of 1612 when 10 people convicted [...]