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I started this blog in 2007. No one had heard of The Wire and I was making experimental films that a select few saw. My initial tagline for this blog was: 'I write concisely. always. I'm trying to improve this - however, sometimes few words work better'. Then I found Twitter. However, I still post here once a week, so feel free to comment or just to simply say hii.
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Friday, May 28, 2010 @ 8:43 AM
Rialto Twirlers / Untitled Baton Twirling Project

Installation still at The LAB, Dublin ©Anne Maree Barry

The last day of my exhibition Rialto Twirlers, The LAB, Foley Street is tomorrow. So, check it out if you haven't. I also became aware of a feature film in development, working title - Untitled Baton Twirling Project (2011) - it's star is Jessica Biel. So I presume it is a Bring It On type of affair.
Anne Maree Barry - surfing the zeitgeist.

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Wednesday, May 19, 2010 @ 9:42 AM
Second Square To None
Below is an interview with Sunken Foal, aka Duncan Murphy, that is featured in Second Square To None. Second Square to None is a collective, whose aim is to provide a forum for experimental and noise music - as well as ambient, downbeat and electronica in Dublin.

In the interview, Duncan explains the rational behind the sound(s) he made, for my experimental short film 'Crag Hill'.

What are your reasons / motives for making music, and how you arrived at this style?

This piece was written as a soundtrack to a film by director Anne Maree Barry called "Crag Hill". One element of the narrative that stood out to me was the inability of the protagonist to decipher the water and wind surrounding her, i.e.: the rain. The film expresses the confused state of the character so this drove me to place her in an aural backdrop of water droplet configurations. I recorded 128 drips into various sized containers and then set about arranging them into different mathematical patterns. The drips could be cycled through consecutively at a varying range of rate up to note frequencies so that tonal timbres could be achieved and manipulated. These experiments were then convolved with a variety of recordings (
impulse responses) which contained volatile but harmonic qualities. All of this was intended to echo the character trying to perceive the phenomenon of rain over the time it took to make the journey "home".

What sort of environment it is intended for (home listening, really loud in a meat lorry, or whatever!) / intended effect on listener?

The film is intended as a gallery piece but I played the soundtrack on my headphones while I was at mass last Sunday eating stacks of communion down the back of the church and it really worked.

What sort of equipment you use (e.g. computer, hardware, home made gear, circuit bent stuff etc.) do you use to make your sounds?

I used a pair of large diaphragm microphones to record the drips and the
PotPourri Max/Msp object "el.player~" by Eric Lyon to control them. A Yamaha CS30 and Rat guitar pedal to create the impulse responses.

Any memorable noise-related incidents/ interesting gig anecdotes?

I once played a live gig in the Croft in Bristol on top of a brand spanking new pinewood coffin complete with crucifixes. It's affect on the sound quality was negligible.


Info on upcoming gigs, preferred web address, releases etc.

Venetian Snares - May 19th Crawdaddy
www.myspace.com/wesunkthefoal
http://www.annemareebarry.com/

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Thursday, May 13, 2010 @ 5:35 AM
Rialto Twirlers - LE COOL
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Tuesday, May 4, 2010 @ 5:34 AM
"Give Us A Twirl" TOTALLY DUBLIN 68
You know how while watching Bring It On (because your 16 year old sister and her giggling friends made you, and certainly not on your own, in the dark, at four in the morning on Megavideo) your sympathies lie not with the Kirsten Dunst cheerleader team of perfectly-groomed white bread pansies, but with the finger-snapping, shit-talking City of Compton girls? We've yet to have the pleasure of viewing Anne Maree Barry's Rialto Twirlers, a video exhibition of a majorette troupe from everyone's favourite LUAS stop, but we're fairly certain its subjects are about to join the Compton Clovers in our hearts. A collage of image, sound and music Rialto Twirlers is an experimental film-making project with a most substantial core - its socially explorative goals as intriguing as the process and presentation.

Rialto Twirlers runs from the 6th until the 29th of May at The Lab, Foley Street, from 10am - 6pm.
Bring your own batons.

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