Passades - Volumes 1 and 2 (2002-5)

1 hour 53 minutes

CD (electronic sounds)

Individual titles: Volume 1 - Opening, First Set, Second Set, Third Set, Fourth Set, Closing. Volume 2 - The Opening, Frozen In Stereoscope, Link/Separator 1, The Sixth Set, Link/Separator 2, The Seventh Set, Link/Separator 3, Virdissa.

Released on BV Haast (The Netherlands) on 2 CDs in 2004 and 2005.

The Idea and its Shadow (2000)

5 minutes

CD (spoken text and electronic sounds)

Released on BV Haast in 2005 and Silverdoor (Ireland) in 2001.

Ten Themes (all is bright) (2000)

9 minutes

Piano

Released on BV Haast in 2005.

Babel (1981, 1983-86 and 1988-1999)

6 hours 15 minutes

Tape (at different times: electronic sounds, spoken texts, vocals, clarinets, saxophones, French horn, violins, bassoon, trumpet, uilleann pipes, low whistle, accordion, flute, electric guitars, pianos, Fairlight Computer Music Instrument, synthesizers, digital sampler).

Individual titles (main section): Pagoda Charm, Mansard, Yunnus, Earth to Earth, Cantilena, Kalu Rehearsals, Mercedes Spring, The Iron Language Alphabet, Entry Levels 1 and 2, Mr. Brady’s Room, Squat, The Room of Rhetoric, Spirit Levels 1 – 4, The Stairwell, Dark Scenery Court Games, The Dressing Room, Vertical Fissures in Stone, Beautiful Day, Mall Fountain, Johnny’s Body At 002, Mr. Foley’s Final Moments.

Individual titles (KBBL section): The Morning Show (which includes You Must Be In, President Hillary and the Sherpas, Walter Ego’s Weekend, The Seventh Angel’s Flying Dream, Nanda In The Bar, Brunswick Leaves), Surface Du Monde (which includes L’amour d’une Poule Au Ritz, Lettuce Is My Hair Well Watered, Navigatio, Ronda De Bastos, Au Fond du Jardin, I May Never Come Back),Trapeze In Full-Moon Nights, The Entertainment And Leisure Pursuits Show (which includes Alle Rouste, The Proposal, No More Mr. Nice Guy, Movie Theme, Sir Geoffrey, Senanbru Vendanswi), The Nightshow (which includes The Garden Room, Some Flooded Plain,The Blue Line To Wonderland, Satanasa, Part Of My Make-up, Farewell To Bray, Sleep).

Released on Silverdoor 5-CD set in 1999.

Tradarr (1999)

20 minutes

Uilleann pipes, wind ensemble, double bass, sean-nos singer, backing CD

Released on Netherlands Wind Ensemble CD in 2000.

MS in Contemporary Music Centre, Dublin.

Shindstu (1998)

10 minutes

Guitar, saxophone, percussion, trombone and live eletronics

Released on Caprice Records (Sweden) 2005.

MS in Contemporary Music Centre.

Under the Green Time (1995)

11 minutes

Uilleann pipes, flute and electronic sounds (on backing CD).

Included on CMC (Ireland) promotional CD in 1997 and on Netherlands Wind Ensemble label in 2000.

Charlotte Corday and the Lament of Louis XVI (1989)

25 minutes

Tape (electronic and concrete sounds and voices)

Released on Dom/Artware (Germany) 1992 and BV Haast 2004.

Salome (1988-1990, 1993,1995)

Suite from music for Oscar Wilde play

1 hour

Piano

Individual titles: Banquet Medley, Opening, Salome’s Entrance, Seduction Of The Guard, The Temptation Of John The Baptist, Death Of The Young Syrian, The Rejection Of Salome, Herod’s Entrance, Herod’s Descent Into Madness, Salome’s Dance, Herod Offers Salome Riches, The Execution, Salome’s Lament.

Released by Gate Theatre (Ireland) 2000, and 5 tracks on BV Haast 2005.

Contents Of The Pay-Jar (1983-88)

1 hour 10 minutes

Tape (Fairlight C.M.I. and voices)

Individual titles: Sidewards and Pinkways, Physical Missing, Clear The Drains, Chinja Miniatures, Arminarm, Fire On The Water 1 and 2, Quiet Slipper Year, Seresa 1, Pilar, Seresa 2 and 3, Say Yes To The Nice Lady, Ordained For Grave Dancing, Original Spring Is Coming, Come Down Off That Ceiling, Why Orange, Contempo.

Released on Silverdoor in 2000. A slightly different version released on cassette by Operating Theatre Tapes (Ireland) in 1989, called Light Years.

These Unsolved Mysteries (1987)

20 minutes

Tape (symphony orchestra, voice, electronic and concrete sounds).

Tape in RTE sound archive. MS in Contemporary Music Centre.

Oedipus/Dracula Music (1986/87)

Best extracts of music for those theatre productions

11 minutes

Tape (synthesizers)

Released on Silverdoor in 2000.

Budawanny (1986)

Suite from film soundtrack

42 minutes

Tape (piano, synthesizers) with solo piano concert variations of some pieces

Individual titles: Opening Music, Priest On Motorbike, Moving In, Inspecting The House, The Storm, The Vigil, Pregnant, The Boat Race, The Dance, Parting, Ecce, Budawanny.

Released on Silverdoor 2002. Concert variations released on BV Haast 2005.

The Love Of Don Perlimplin And Belisa In The Garden (1984 rev. ’88)

Suite from music for Lorca play

56 minutes

Tape (Fairlight C.M.I. and vocals)

Individual titles: Curtain Music, Opening Music, What Good Would Marriage Do Me, Ah Love Ah Love, Preparations For The Wedding, The Wedding, Wedding Night Music, Comings And Goings, Perlimplin Dreams, Curtain Music, Love Love That Here Lies Wounded, Again I Have Failed To See Him, He Writes Me Letters, Don Perlimplin Has No Honour, The Garden, Upon The Banks Of The River, Perlimplin Dies.

Released on cassette by Operating Theatre Tapes in 1989, and on CD by Silverdoor in 2000.

Atlantean (1983)

Music for documentary series

3 minutes and 11 minutes (2 versions)

Tape (Fairlight C.M.I.) and concert version for 2 synthesizers, hand drum and fiddle.

Released on Silverdoor (both versions) in 2002.

Miss Mauger (1980-1986)

62 minutes

Tape (at different times: vocals, synthesizers, piano, Fairlight C.M.I., harmonium, drums, bass guitar, trombone.)

Individual titles: Gloss And Eggshell, Elation After Hours, No Come, Syllable, Dragon Path, The Confectioners, Miss Mauger, Austrian, Positive Disintegration, Blue Light And Alpha Waves, Rampwalk, Fingerdance Waltz/Hymn, Club Music/Amene-Moi, The Tractor, Queen Of No Heart, Spring Is Coming With A Strawberry In The Mouth, Before She Was Asked To Dance.

Due for release in 2006 on Silverdoor. Most titles released on out-of-print LPs and singles in the early 1980s.

Rapid Eye Movements (1978-1980)

30 minutes

Tape (electronic and concrete sounds)

Released on LP and CD by United Dairies (UK) in 1981 and 1995 resp. and on Silverdoor in 2003.

Fin-estra (1977)

25 minutes

Tape (electronic and concrete sounds)

Released on LP and CD by United Dairies in 1981 and 1995 resp. and on Silverdoor in 2003.

Thalia (1976)

29 minutes

Tape (electronic and concrete sounds and voices)

Released on LP by CBS Classics (Ireland) in 1978, on CD by Dom/Artware (Germany) in 1992 and by Silverdoor in 2002.

Solar Eyes (1975)

13 minutes

Tape (electronic and concrete sounds)

Released on LP by CBS Classics in 1978, on CD by Dom/Artware in 1992 and by Silverdoor in 2002.

All The Rage (1974)

9 minutes

Symphony Orchestra

Tape in RTE sound archive. MS in Contemporary Music Centre

Oizzo No (1968-1975)

43 minutes

Tape (at different times: electronic and concrete sounds, piano, flute and string orchestra, uilleann pipes, tin whistle and Irish harp, voices, drums, guitar, clarinet, violin, viola, cello).

Individual titles: Bitter-Sweet Suite, Ceol Sidhe, Oizzo No, Obstinato, Why Is Kilkenny So Good, Two Movements For Flute And Strings, Theme From Emtigon, Extra Bit

Released on LP by Thrust (Ireland) in 1975, on CD by Dom/Artware in 1992 and on Silverdoor in 2002.

Six Pieces For Pupils Who Don’t Like Exams (1969/70 and 1973-75)

17 minutes

Piano

Individual titles: Piano Suite (which includes Journeys, In Paris, Dominique This Year), Bitter-Sweet Suite and Baby Grand.

Released on Dom/Artware in 1992 and Silverdoor in 2002 and 2003. Baby Grand released on BV Haast in 2005.

MS in Contemporary Music Centre.

Me And They (1970)

7 minutes

Wind Quintet and female voice.

MS in Contemporary Music Centre.

Four Sketches (1969)

13 minutes

Symphony Orchestra.

Tape in RTE sound archive. MS in Contemporary Music Centre.

Two Movements For Violin And Piano (1968)

6 minutes

MS in Contemporary Music Centre.

Movement For Guitar And Flute (1968)

3 minutes

MS in Contemporary Music Centre.

Three Poems By Patrick MacDonogh (1968)

8 minutes

Piano and female voice

MS in Contemporary Music Centre.