Michael McGlynn, composer and director of Irish choral group Anuna, talks to Michael Quinn about composing for orchestra, choral music in Ireland, and current and future projects.
Music excerpts used with kind permission:
Episode 1 [19:48]
Music excerpts used with kind permission:
0:00 An Oiche, Michael McGlynn [Anuna, director Michael McGlynn] copyright Michael McGlynn
2:30 Dulaman, Michael McGlynn [Anuna, director Michael McGlynn] copyright Michael McGlynn
6:45 Silver River, Michael McGlynn [Anuna, director Michael McGlynn, Kenneth Edge (sax), Noel Eccles (perc.)] copyright Michael McGlynn
13:30 Visions, Michael McGlynn [Kenneth Edge (sax)] copyright Michael McGlynn
19:50 Shining Water, Michael McGlynn [Lucy Champion (S-solo), Anuna, Michael McGlynn (low whistle), Maire Breathnach (va), Andreja Mahlir (hrp), Noel Eccles (perc)] copyright Michael McGlynn
For the 6 hour composition challenge. Produced in Logic with one instance each of Battery and Kontakt 3, and I recycled a few loops from the catalog and used a few DRex players in Reason.
http://www.csounds.com/node/402">read more
Music created with Ableton live, analyzed with Csound, data processed with Perl and then formatted for Tobiah's http://tobiah.org/wiki/index.php/Sine_composition_challenge">Sine Composition Challenge. Never before has so much work been put into something to make it sound like a super lo-fi mp3.
I created a piece that I called Adventures at dawn for Tobiah's contest. It is created in Blue, with a single Python script that generates the score.
http://www.csounds.com/node/390">read more
Entry for the Sinewave competition started on the email list. I'm putting the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license on these files.
Oscillator contest entry for 2009 from Brian Redfern. You can get the source code and Blue project file from http://tobiah.org/wiki/index.php/Brianwredfern" title="http://tobiah.org/wiki/index.php/Brianwredfern">http://tobiah.org/wiki/index.php/Brianwredfern
My first csound piece, created for submission to Tobiah's sinewave-only challenge on the csound mailing list. The orchestra is Tobiah's; score entered in vi.
Details at http://semiautomaticgroundenvironment.com/blog.php" title="http://semiautomaticgroundenvironment.com/blog.php">http://semiautomaticgroundenvironment.com/blog.php (16 May 2009).