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The final episode of 2025 features a conversation with pioneering sound artist Danny McCarthy. Recorded in early December at CMC to mark the launch of his new album on Farpoint Recordings, Haunted by Silence, the episode also includes a live performance from the launch in the CMC’s Creative Space, featuring Danny alongside Anthony Kelly and David Stalling. Presented by Jonathan Grimes.

Shownotes: https://www.cmc.ie/amplify/episode-129

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CMC Emerging Composers Laura Heneghan and Santiago Kodela, and co-founder of Icon Arts Transylvania Academy and Festival Diana Gheorghiu talk to Evonne Ferguson about the InTERRActions concert tour showcasing recent work from Romania and Ireland, and the Composer Residency at the ICON Arts Festival in Sibiu, Transylvania, attended this summer by both composers as part of CMC's ongoing partnership with the festival. Presented by Jonathan Grimes. 

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Image credit: Paul Hillier's final concert as AD of Chamber Choir Ireland (In Illo Tempore, October 2024), filmed by Dominik Kosicki.

Conductor Paul Hillier, who up to 2024 was Artistic Director of Chamber Choir Ireland, speaks to Evonne Ferguson about some of the Irish composers and works commissioned and performed during his time with the choir. The conversation was recorded in October 2024 and features works by Gerald Barry, Siobhán Cleary, Rhona Clarke, David Fennessy, Andrew Hamilton, Stephen McNeff and Jennifer Walshe. Show NotesChamber Choir Ireland:

• Paul Hillier
• Chamber Choir Ireland

Composers featured in this episode:

• Gerald Barry
  • CMC Composer Page
• Siobhán Cleary
  • CMC Composer Page
• Rhona Clarke
  • CMC Composer Page
• David Fennessy
  • CMC Composer Page
• Andrew Hamilton
  • CMC Composer Page
• Stephen McNeff
  • CMC Composer Page
• Jennifer Walshe
  • CMC Composer Page

MusicIn order of appearance in the episode:

chOirland - David Fennessy
Letter to Michael - David Fennessy
Theophilus Thistle and the Myth of Miss Muffett - Siobhán Cleary (Live Recording)
Everything is Ridiculous - Andrew Hamilton
Schott and Sons Mainz - Gerald Barry
Long Time - Gerald Barry

The White Noisery - Jennifer Walshe (Live Recording)

Dives and Lazurus - Stephen McNeff (Live Recording)

Pie Jesu from Requiem - Rhona Clarke (Live Recording)

All music featured in this episode was performed by Chamber Choir Ireland under the direction of Paul Hillier.

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• Emma Coulthard
  • Soundcloud page
  • For the Birds - online concert on 30 November

• Fergus Johnston - Planxty
• Anna Murray/Emma Coulthard - GLSS.RNDR
• John Buckley - Boireann (Emma Coulthard, David Adams)
• Michael Holohan - Leafy with Love Banks
• Paul Hayes - Mass Production (Emma Coulthard (voice), Jennifer Walshe (trumpet), RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra)
• Paul Hayes - Echo Chatterbox
• John McLachlan - Isola (Emma Coulthard, David Adams)
• Fergus Johnston - Opus Lepidopterae (Emma Coulthard, David Adams)
• Benjamin Dwyer - HAG (Emma Coulthard, Benjamin Dwyer)
• Fergus Johnston - Planxty
• Anna Murray/Emma Coulthard - GLSS.RNDR
• John McLachlan - Isola (Emma Coulthard, David Adams)

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• Ed Bennett: Psychedelia (NMC Records)
• Karen Power: Human Nature
• Ed Bennett
  • Composer web site
  • CMC page
• Karen Power
  • Composer web site
  • CMC page
• CMC Salon - Ian Wilson ‘Wild is the wind' album launch
  • Wild is the wind - Diatribe Records

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• Ed Bennett - Psychedelia (RTE National Symphony Orchestra)
• Karen Power - train to Machu Picchu

All tracks from Human Nature- loved bees (Anne-Marie O’Farrell)- underwater frogs of Angkor Wat (Thomas Buckner)- train to Machu Picchu (Johnny Chang)- Amazonian frogs (Seth Josel)- if trees had bellies (Jane Rigler)- seals off the Namibian shipwreck coast (Ute Wassermann)- monkeys + ‘waterbird' of the Amazon (Loré Lixenberg)- bats of Namibia (John Godfrey)- beneath the living sand dunes @ Gobabeb (Rishin Singh)- sirens of New York (Samuel Stoll)

All tracks from Psychedelia- Organ Grinder (Orkest de Ereprijs)- Freefalling (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra)- Song of the Books: III (Kate Ellis, Decibel)- Psychedelia (RTE National Symphony Orchestra)- Song of the Books: II (Kate Ellis, Decibel)- Magnetic (Jack McNeill, Eliza McCarthy)

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• City of Derry International Choir Festival
  • 2020 Festival podcast series
• Séan Doherty
  • cmc.ie/composers/sean-doherty
  • seandohertymusic.com
  • New Dublin Voices
  • Laetare Vocal Ensemble
• Orla Flanagan
  • Mornington Singers

• Rhona Clarke - Regina Caeli (Mornington Singers)

• Blessed be that Maid Marie (New Dublin Voices)
• Snow Dance for the Dead (New Dublin Voices)
• A Nywe Werk (New Dublin Voices)
• Ghost Song (Laetare Vocal Ensemble)
• This Endless Night (New Dublin Voices)
• Khuluma isintu (Speak to the People)

• Eoin Mulvany - Is úar Geimred (Mornington Singers)
• Caitríona Ní Dhubhghaill - Is naofa thú (Mornington Singers)
• Evangelia Rigaki - The Pregnant Box (Mornington Singers)
• John Buckley - Lux Aeterna (Mornington Singers)
• John Buckley - To the Northeast: Harbour Song (Mornington Singers)
• Seán Doherty - Under-Song (Mornington Singers)
• Colin Mawby - Alleluia, Christus Resurrexit (Mornington Singers)
• Rhona Clarke - Regina Caeli (Mornington Singers)
• Frank Corcoran - Caoine (Mornington Singers)
• Gráinne Mulvey - Dead Earth (Milltown Chamber Choir)
• Eoin Mulvany - Is úar Geimred (Mornington Singers)

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Featuring contributions from composer Tom Lane, Kirkos Director Sebastian Adams, and horn player Hannah Miller

• Tom Lane
  • Tide
• Sebastian Adams
  • Tide Quartet

Audio diary contributions from Robbie Blake, Elizabeth Hilliard, Nick Roth and Jennifer Walshe

• Ireland: A Dataset
• Tonnta
• Nick Roth
  • CMC page
• Elizabeth Hilliard
• Jennifer Walshe
  • CMC page

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• Eric Sweeney
  • CMC Page
  • ericsweeney.com
• David Adams
• John Buckley
• Hazel Farrell
• Ronan Guilfoyle
• Grainne Mulvey
• Through the Digital Door: works by Eric Sweeney in CMC's Library

• Kyrie from Hymn to Gaia (Eric Sweeney)
• Ceol Rince Ros Mhic Treoin (New Ross Dance Music) (Finghin Collins, Dearbhla Collins, Alexander Bernstein)
• There is no Rose (Chamber Choir Ireland)
• Duo (John Finucane, Elisaveta Blumina)
• Canzona (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra)
• Symphony No. 2 (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra)
• Dance Music (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra)
• Le Circle de Lumiere (Eric Sweeney)
• The Widening Gyre (Eric Sweeney)
• Guitar Concerto (John Feeley, Sunrise Quartet)
• Walk/Don't Walk (Ríona Ó'Duinnín, Geraldine O'Doherty, Nancy Johnson)
• The Invader
• Evening: the lighthouse at Hook Head (Olga Scheps)

Thanks to Susan Brodigan, CMC Library Coordinator, for her help in sourcing the archival recordings.

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• Donnacha Dennehy - Canons and Overtones (Crash Ensemble), 5:25, 26:34
• Roger Doyle - UX 2 (Crash Ensemble)
• Linda Buckley - Seancheann (Caimin Gilmore)
• Seán Clancy - Eleven Lines of Music Slow Down and Eventually Stop
• Andrew Hamilton - Music for People Who Like Art (Crash Ensemble)
• Donnacha Dennehy - As An Nós (Crash Ensemble)
• Mango X MathMan - Deep Blue featuring Lisa Hannigan and Crash Ensemble

Sinead Hayes

• Greg Caffrey - The Chronic Identity Crisis of Pamplemousse (Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble)
• Raymond Deane - Vagbones (Opera Collective Ireland)
• Piers Hellawell - Ground Truthing: I (Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble)
• Greg Caffrey - Garden of Earthly Delights (Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble)

amplify podcast highlights

• Amanda Feery - Vulture (Crash Ensemble)
• Jennifer Walshe - TIME TIME TIME
• Donnacha Dennehy - The Hunger: Black Potatoes (Crash Ensemble and Iarla O Lionaird)
• Linda Buckley and Jonathan Nangle - Helen Street from Moog Residency

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• Judith Ring
• Roger Doyle
• CMC Salon 2 - Andreea Banciu and Adrian Mantu
• CMC Salon 3 - Michelle O’Rourke
• NCFA launches 13-Point Plan
• Clonmel Junction Arts Festival - I Oedipus by Roger Doyle
• Marina Carr
• Scenes from iGIRL
• Trish McAdam

• Roger Doyle - Blood on Their Hands

Judith Ring

• My one’s bigger than yours (Kate Ellis, Malachy Robinson)
• Wildwood: Invisible Scampers (Martin Johnson) [live recording]
• Mouthpiece (Michelle O’Rourke, Natasha Lohan)
• Up to my f-holes (Kate Ellis)
• Accumulation
• A Breath of Fresh Air (Lina Andonovska)
• Swelt belly at dawn (Concorde),
• Solo set at Valentia Island (2018)
• Swelt belly at dawn

Roger Doyle

Roger Doyle on Bandcamp

• Overture to iGirl
• I Girl of the Cursed Breasts
• I Oedipus
• I Joanne D’arc

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