Around Here, The Birds Plant The Trees
MUSIC
Around Here, The Birds Plant The Trees
New work by Natalia Beylis
Wed 10 July | 8pm
Event Details
Times & Dates:
Wed 10 July | 8pm
Duration:
45 minutes
Event Categories:
Music
Admission:
€16
Age Suitability:
All ages
Venue:
The Factory Performance Space, Lower Quay St.
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The latest composition by Natalia Beylis, 'Around Here, The Birds Plant The Trees', began with five musicians gathered together within a field to listen: to the creatures rustling in the undergrowth, to the wind making the oak leaves dance, to the lone distant curlew and to themselves, their breathing, their heartbeats and their place within it all.
We considered the potential land use of this single field and of the fields that border it and in particular we considered the stewardship for the populations that live in this field and for their harmonious future. We invite the audience to join us at this starting point and to explore the past, present and possible futures of a single field.
Featuring Tóla Custy – Fiddle, Ultan O'Brien- Viola, Eimear Reidy – Cello, Willie Stewart – Percussion and Natalia Beylis - Live Sound Collage and Objects.
Natalia Beylis
Natalia Beylis' music revolves somewhere between sonic story-teller and multi-instrumental explorer. She has released over 40 albums between solo works and collaborations and has appeared on numerous compilations. Her work parallels the lines of her surroundings: bird song, creaky trees, farm animals, the northwesterly breeze and rainfall. Lots and lots of rainfall. Her solo compositions and improvisations are a unique calling of a Ukrainian born, American raised, Irish settled subconscious. The resulting sounds are a mix of garbled tape collage recordings, eerie mandola mantras and dreamscape piano voyages. While she regularly records on a variety of traditional instruments (mainly pianos, organs, keyboards and mandola), she is just as likely to use non-musical sound sources within her compositions. For example, she recently released an album using just the sounds created by a domestic sewing machine.
In her live performances, Natalia layers seemingly incongruous sounds atop of each other to spawn strange juxtapositions and garbled parallels by exploring the sonic potentials of domestic appliances, found objects, cassette tapes and field recordings.
Natalia's latest album 'Mermaids' is now available on Touch Sensitive Records.