Lighthouse Lullaby, a sound installation for Maryport Lighthouse in West Coast Cumbria is presented as part of the 2011 Engine Room Festival in London until 15th December 2011. Lighthouse Lullaby was featured on BBC Radio 4′s The Today Programme.
Listen here and watch on Channel 4′s Big Art Project website.
DON’T! A duet for Bass Clarinet and Cello was performed at the Rubicon Gallery, Dublin on 13th November 2011 by Martin Johnson and Paul Roe, members of longest established Irish contemporary music ensemble Concorde.
Desolate Heaven, a new play by Ailís Ní Ríain was read as part of the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouses’ Everyword Festival at Liverpool Playhouse on Wednesday 16th November.
With Bríd Brennan, Laura Pyper and Lisa Hogg. Directed by Tessa Walker.
Sawn-off Opera developed three new mini-operas by Ailís Ní Ríain with libretto by David Gaffney and Directed by Caroline Clegg as part of a residency at Opera North in Leeds from 7-12 November 2011 supported by Arts Council England, the RVW Trust and Opera North.
‘The Man Made of Rain’ was performed at The National Concert Hall in Dublin on Wednesday 19th October by Lithuanian based musicians Jose Kotar & Luca Ferrini. Based on the book-length poem by Brendan Kennelly, Ailís recited his poetry within the piece.
Contemporary Music Centre Salon Series at The National Concert Hall of Ireland
Boy You Turn Me is a specially commissioned sound installation for Birmingham Book Festival 2011 (6-16th October) by composer Ailís Ní Ríain and writer David Gaffney. Situated in an empty shop in the Pavilions shopping centre it uses a unique structure of an inner and outer layer of sound, the two layers of music and text can be heard separately or at the same time by moving inside and outside of the specially created space.
Birmingham Book Festival Commission 2011
Funded by Arts Council England, PRS Foundation, Birmingham Book Festival and The Pavilions.
AND in partnership with DaDa – Disability and Deaf Arts are developing an innovative artists’ online residency programme. This residency offers a unique opportunity for a disabled or D/deaf artist to work alongside a technologist to develop an online / web based art project or area of research. The aim of the residency is to enable an artist to investigate how technological advancements online has effected how disabled or deaf artists can make work. Ailis will take part in a discussion event about on-line residencies at AND Festival on 30th September in Liverpool.
Brief-Blue-Electric-Bloom was presented at Arts Council England’s Decibel Showcase in Manchester on September 16th. It 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 explores Ailis’ hearing impairment and is a provocative piece which challenges how and we present narrative material to both deaf and hearing audiences.
Review of Brief-Blue-Electric-Bloom & Interview on ABC Australian National Radio with Kath Duncan
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 shop in Birmingham’s Pavilions shopping centre. It will launch in Birmingham on 6th October 2011. See here for more detail.
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 in November 2011 where it will subsequently receive it premiere. Supported by the PRS Foundation for Music and Arts Council England.
