Cork French Film Festival: Irene Buckley – Q&A
Following its recent sold out performance at the Glasgow Cathedral during the Glasgow Film Festival, the awe-inspiring ‘cine-concert’ The Passion of Joan of Arc comes to the stunning surrounds of St Fin Barre’s Cathedral, Cork. This specially commissioned production features a live score by Cork composer Irene Buckley, played in tandem with Carl T. Dreyer’s...
Stop Making Sense, Tonight
News of an outrageously good idea for Christmas week. Quarter presents the legendary, ground-breaking STOP MAKING SENSE by Talking Heads. A live concert filmed in 1984 directed by John Demme. So don those big suits, snap into position and bounce til you ache! The world hasn’t ended, it’s the same as it ever was. Dec...
Cork Film Festival for Music Fans
You’ll have heard that the 57th Corona Cork Film Festival begins next weekend with a landmark event, a live performance by the Bill Frisell Quartet to The Great Flood, a film by Bill Morrison (interestingly, the second Bill Morrison film work to play in Cork this year, after the Titanic piece during the Midsummer Festival...
The Hatch, score by George Brennan
You may know George Brennan’s work from Deep Burial or Melodica Deathship. In his first (that we’re aware of) foray into soundtrack work, he’s composed the score for the short film The Hatch. Here are the full details. About the score: The score is a brooding combination of electronic drones and analogue synth stabs that...
Andy Votel + Jean Rollin Film Season in Cork
We like a good flick around here as much as the next person. However, occasionally, films come along which recommend themselves for their music as much as the pictures. (You know the ones – Vertigo, The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, Blue Velvet, The Sound of Music etc.. (No, he’s serious – Ed.)) And,...
Eat My Noise Production present a:Volution – Curtis Auditorium, Cork School of Music, 30.06.12
I Fear this Transfer, Inked in Outline, Fades, Degrades And Drips to Nought I Have Words, Or They Have Me. Either/Or is Absurdity. Press A Page by Peter Power. As I waited outside the Curtis Auditorium, looking at Miki Barlok’s a:Volution photography exhibition, the faint murmur of music playing inside filtered out. Barlok’s statement about...
Gavin Bryars Ensemble with Philip Jeck – The Sinking of the Titanic
Photos: Rory Coomey “…what happens to music as it is played in water” (Gavin Bryars) Gavin Bryars’ The Sinking of the Titanic, originally composed as far back as 1972, is a piece of music conceived from the report that a string sextet played the hymn tune ‘Autumn’ on deck as the famous ship sank. Over...
Black Sun presents John Wiese – Triskel/Plugd, 31st March 2012
Curator, Vicky Langan, tells me that this is the first review that Black Sun will have received, something I find kind of astonishing. To me, Black Sun is a Cork institution; an always interesting night of avant-garde performance, film and noise that is unrivalled in the city. Founded in 2009, it has brought some world-class...
Black Sun Presents John Wiese at Triskel, Sat Mar 31st
Black Sun curator Vicky Langan talks us through the line-up at the latest edition of Black Sun coming up this weekend Black Sun returns to the Triskel on Saturday for a night of powerful intensity. We welcome artist and composer John Wiese (USA), Wölfbait, the Irish premiere of 80’s Serbian underground film Personal Discipline and...
Desperado with Bikini Machine, Triskel Christchurch, Sun Mar 11th 2012
The 23rd Cork French Film Festival signed off in style tonight with a good ole rip roarer of a live show from French thrash punk popsters Bikini Machine, performing a sleazy soundtrack for Roberto Rodrigeuz’ Desperado. Bikini Machine are onto something here, turning a pretty run of the mill shoot-em-up fest into a visceral cinematic...
The Passion of Joan of Arc, Triskel Christchurch, Sat Mar 10th 2012
Saturday is the penultimate day of 2012’s Cork French Film Festival, and Triskel is abuzz in anticipation of tonight’s event. Enthusiasm is reflected in the line of patrons queueing to get tickets from the box office which is under pressure to cope, but thankfully the organisers will delay proceedings a little to allow everyone to...
Joan of Arc, Live Soundtrack Rehearsal clip
In case you needed any further incentive to attend the screening of Carl Dreyer’s classic silent film The Passion of Joan of Arc at Triskel Christchurch tonight, with specially commissioned score performed live by local Cork composer Irene Buckley, here’s a short clip of the rehearsal, kindly supplied by the Cork French Film Festival. A...
