The Room In The Tower (2008/9)
55 minutes
Piano, bass clarinet, 'cello, double bass, female singer and playback of recorded acted scenes
(also version for piano, singer and playback)
Text: Carlo Gebler
MS: Composer and Contemporary Music Centre, Dublin
Paavo's Engagement (2008)
17 minutes
Piano
Released on CD on Psychonavigation (Ireland) in 2009
Adolf Gebler, Clarinettist (2007/8)
41 minutes
Symphony orchestra, piano, female singer and playback of recorded acted scenes
Text: Carlo Gebler
MS: Composer and Contemporary Music Centre
Released on CD on Psychonavigation in 2009
Cool Steel Army (2005 and 2007)
12 minutes
Variable ensemble - first performance: piano, saxophone, electric guitar, 2 percussion and electronic sounds
(also version for piano, laptop percussion and playback)
MS: Composer and Contemporary Music Centre, Dublin
Released on CD on Psychonavigation in 2009
Passades (2002-2007)
3 hours
CD (electronic sounds and transformed voices)
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. Volume 3 - The Ninth Set.
Volumes 1 and 2 released on BV Haast (The Netherlands) on 2 CDs in 2004 and 2005. Volume 3 released on CD on Die Stadt (Germany) in 2007.
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 2006.
Babel (1981, 1983-86 and 1988-1999)
6 hours 15 minutes
Tape ( at different times : electronic sounds, vocals, Fairlight Computer Music Instrument, pianos, synthesizers, digital sampler, electric guitars, clarinets, saxophones, French horn, violins, bassoon, trumpet, uilleann pipes, low whistle, accordion, flute, spoken texts).
Individual titles (main section – CDs 1,2,3): 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 – CDs 4,5): 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 label 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) free 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 Artware Audio (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 2006.
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.
Re-released on Silverdoor 2002. Concert variations released on BV Haast 2006.
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.
Re-released on 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.
Operating Theatre - The Early Years (1980-1986 and 1999)
1 hour 33 minutes
Tape ( at different times: vocals, synthesizers, piano, Fairlight C.M.I., harmonium, drums, bass guitar, trombone.)
Individual titles: Sir Geoffrey, Part Of My Make-up, No Come, Syllable, Dragon Path, The Confectioners, Miss Mauger, Austrian, Positive Disintegration, Blue Light And Alpha Waves, Rampwalk, Satanasa, Ah Love Ah Love, Fingerdance Waltz/Hymn, Club Music/Amene-Moi, Belisa In The Garden, Don Perlimplin Has No Honour, The Tractor, Queen Of No Heart, Spring Is Coming With A Strawberry In The Mouth, Before She Was Asked To Dance, Johnny's Body At 002.
Released on a double CD in 2006 on Operating Theatre/Dublin Electronic Arts Festival label.
Rapid Eye Movements (1978-1980)
30 minutes
Tape (electronic and concrete sounds)
Re-released on Silverdoor in 2003.
Fin-estra (1977)
25 minutes
Tape (electronic and concrete sounds)
Re-released on Silverdoor in 2003.
Thalia (1976)
29 minutes
Tape (electronic and concrete sounds and voices)
Re-released on Silverdoor 2002.
Solar Eyes (1975)
13 minutes
Tape (electronic and concrete sounds)
Re-released on 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
Re-released 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.
Re-released on Silverdoor in 2002 and 2003. Baby Grand released on BV Haast in 2006.
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.
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