[spectre] ... reality-particles; image & sound in nature

[Séamas Cain]

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IMRAM, a national literary festival in Ireland, in association with
the Dublin City Arts Centre, will present "tríd an gcoill" by Séamas
Cain and Slavek Kwi.

This Installation with recorded or live
performances will take place at 1:00 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. from September
23 through September 27, 2010 at the Grapevine Space of CITY ARTS, 15
Bachelor’s Walk, Dublin 1, Ireland.

The Opening for "tríd an gcoill" will be held at 1:00 p.m. on September 23.
Admission is free.

For additional information phone
Nick Reilly at CITY ARTS, i.e.,

Phone (+353)(1)902.2414 ...

http://www.cityarts.ie/events/2010/09/23/-trid-an-gcoill

tríd an gcoill
"through the woods"

A collection of reality-particles; sounds and images from Dromore
Woods.  An audiovisual installation, with recorded or live
performances.

tríd an gcoill, a 120-page poem by Séamas Cain, is itself a poetic
field recording.  It evokes a walk through Dromore Woods in County
Clare.  It immerses the reader in a stream of words and word-clusters.
 The overall effect is hypnotic, as we are led by a piped piper into
the heart of the wood.

Czech sound-artist Slavek Kwi has created an audiovisual installation
from underwater and field recordings captured in Dromore Woods itself,
and fused these elements with Séamas Cain's chanted recital of tríd an
gcoill.  This installation with performances will be open to the
public in City Arts, with Free Admission.  tríd an gcoill creates a
unique space in which one can experience nature and language through
sounds and visions of uncanny beauty.

Séamas Cain is an Irish-American experimental poet, a friend and
colleague of Jean Genet and Allen Ginsberg.  One of the most radical
voices in modern literature he writes in Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Old
Celtic, Spanish and English.

For additional information, go to ...

http://seamascain-writernetwork.org

Slavek Kwi is a Czech sound-artist, composer and researcher. From the
early nineties he has operated under the name "Artificial Memory
Trace."

For additional information, go to ...

http://www.artificialmemorytrace.com

Seamus Johnson described Cain's recorded chantings of tríd an gcoill
for this Installation as "incantatory, rhythmic, passionate, guttural,
mezmerizing.  Cain is the baritone ascending to Apollo.  Or, is he the
baritone ascending Mt. Carmel?  He does tend to get carried away in
performance, lost in a kind of trance, at times in the passion of the
moment whacking the microphones.  Indeed, Cain's performance is
hypnotic!  Plenty of auditory images!  And plenty of rich and diverse
sounds to be chopped up for computer-randomization!"

Slavek Kwi used chance operations to distribute the fragments of
Cain's chantings in various speakers of a vertical Speaker Tree, which
doesn't brake the continuous chanting, but changes the architecture as
texture and dynamics.  Also, Kwi used chance operations on the
distribution in speakers of the timbre of Cain's chantings.

Kwi's Installation includes a color film, with parts of the text of
the tríd an gcoill poem superimposed in scrolling effect over images
from Dromore Woods, a slide-show with 1,500 slides, an environmental
soundtrack on external 5.1 system and also a Voice Tower, all edited
using chance operations.  Kwi's Installation also includes physical
objects from Dromore Woods.

For additional information, go to ...

http://www.cityarts.ie/events/2010/09/23/-trid-an-gcoill

http://www.artificialmemorytrace.com

http://www.freewebs.com/seamascain/liamcarsonsreview.htm

http://www.freewebs.com/seamascain/questionsanswers.htm

http://alazanto.org/seamascain

http://www.saorsainn.net

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