Contemporary look-backs and forwards

Fergus Kelly and David Lacy – Magnetic North (2023) – Dublin
« the piece offers a stellar and fine-tuned combination of silence and sound. In all their contrast, they make it powerful without even exceeding a threshold of volume which one could believe necessary to feel fully invaded by the music »
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Susan Geaney – Tape Melt (2022) Dublin
« The feeling when listening to this piece is not nostalgic at all, since it is rooted in a contemporary reality that just calls on teints of another time, familiar to children of the analog and early digital era or perhaps bringing the past to the ears of younger audiences through something purely modern and uncompromising. »
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Anna Von Hausswolff – All thought fly (2020) Gothenburg
« The organ, in all its beauty, has the magic of evoking the timbre of instruments we know, but the construction of these pieces takes us through different ages, and our sensitivity, to the sound of flutes, strings, and the natural breath of the instrument, is delicately transported towards unusual and extremely beautiful landscapes. »
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