2021

 Posted on January 12, 2021  |  1 minutes  |  149 words  |  Adam

becoming arctic partners: Boyana Maynalovska, Robert Platt, Christian Hierhold, Filippo Gaetani instruments: synthesizer, violin Becoming Arctic is the name of a short film by Robert Platt. It’s doing the rounds at some film festivals in north america this year. The soundtrack was composed using a formalized score pipeline written in python. The instrumentation is violin and synthesizers, Boyana Maynalovska on the violin and me trying to keep up on the keys. [Read More]
Generative Score  Synthesis  Film Soundtracks 

2020

 Posted on January 12, 2020  |  2 minutes  |  408 words  |  Adam

all of old. at Transparent Sound, Budapest with Longleash (a piano trio) All Of Old. Nothing else ever. Ever Tried. Ever Failed. No Matter. Try again. Fail Again. Fail better. - Samuel Beckett Mccartney all of old Mccartney all of old Mccartney all of old Mccartney all of old Mccartney all of old Mccartney all of old Mccartney all of old Mccartney all of old Mccartney all of old Mccartney all of old [Read More]
Microtonality  Generative Music  Modular Synthesis 

2019

 Posted on January 12, 2019  |  2 minutes  |  229 words  |  Adam

Winding Echoes Fourth bicenium based on pieces out of the collection “canzionem duarem vocum” by Orlando di Lasso. The original piece is titled “justus cor suum” and this is where the melodic material for the piece comes from. The composition is canonic and also reflects some of the rhythmic devices used by Morton Feldman in his late piano piece, Triadic Memories. Premiered by Barbara Konrad and Susanne Scholz at Galerie Jünger in Vienna. [Read More]
Canon  Additive Rhythm  Asymetry  Microtonality  Sequences 

2018

 Posted on November 1, 2018  |  2 minutes  |  293 words  |  Adam

59 People partners: Ensemble Playtypus, P.A. & C.B 59people page 001 59people page 002 59people page 003 59people page 004 59people page 005 59people page 006 59people page 007 59people page 008 Duo/II partners: [“Aarhus Unge Tonkunstnere”, “Anna Jalving”, “Sofie Thorsbro Dan”] Three short pieces written in response to music by Orlando Di Lasso. At the moment, I’m trying to create new music that is interesting to write, to play and to hear. [Read More]
Venezia  Organ  Modular Synthesizer 

2016

 Posted on September 24, 2018  |  1 minutes  |  32 words  |  Adam

Glimm

5 pieces for harmonium premiered at the opening of Robert Platt’s Dazzling Dissolution exhibition at the Burren College of Art in Ballyvaughen, County Clare, Ireland

Recorded in Dooradoyle by Séan O’Mahony

2015

 Posted on September 24, 2015  |  2 minutes  |  333 words  |  Adam

Aimsir ©2015 – NOW! opera der Gegenwart Idea: Adam Mc. Cartney & Sabine Maier Composition / Text: Adam Mc. Cartney Drawings / Text: elffriede.aufzeichnensysteme Staging / Choreographie / Stage Design: Sabine Maier & elfffriede.aufzeichnensysteme Harmonium: Adam Mc. Cartney Violin: Doris Segula In the sense of music theater, we experiment with different forms of staging (space-defining projection stations, literature, music, performance), which stand side by side, disonnected and dissasociated, and nevertheless form a whole. [Read More]

2014

 Posted on March 12, 2014  |  2 minutes  |  387 words  |  Adam

hum’s almanac partners: [“Ensemble Zeitfluss”] instruments: [“Flute”, “Bass Clarinet in b”, “Saxophone”, “Bassoon”, “Percussion”, “Piano”, “Violin”, “Viola”, “Cello”, “Contrabass”] The rhythmical structure for this composition was created using weather data collected by the Met Éireann weather station that is positioned at Belmullet, County Mayo in Ireland. At the time, I was very interested in observing naturally occuring processes and letting them structure the composition. Similar to the types of aleatoric processes used by composers like John Cage in the 20th century. [Read More]
Weather Systems  yurt 

2013

 Posted on July 1, 2013  |  2 minutes  |  223 words  |  Adam

Bird and Pine partners: Matej Bunderla, Ivan Trenev, RTVSlovenia, Hristina Takovska instruments: Saxophone, Accordion, Harmonium Through the Balkans in Summer with a bunch of musicians from all over Europe and Asia. This piece was written quickly for Hristina Takovska, who had the good sense to pester me enough until I agreed to climb into a car and drive for 2000km in the height of the summer. 17symmetries Bird and pine [Read More]
oek 

2012

 Posted on December 12, 2012  |  2 minutes  |  392 words  |  Adam

Blue pentagonal remnant of tile instruments: Organ, Kontrabass, Trombone partners: Aleksey Vylegzhanin, Matej Bunderla, Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka, Sandor-Laszlo Krakoczk Composed for Stephanie Barry DaHe instruments: Harmonium, Electronics Piece for electronics, video by Trevor Furlong Fragments (glas) partners: Bronagh Linck-Ryan, Aleksey Vylegzhanin, Peter Venus instruments: Piano Kosmotopy partners: Klaus Lang, Anna Kropfelder, Yulan Yu, Hristina Takovska, Ja-Young Baek, Seongmin Ji This was a project that we started in 2012, one of the many projects that this group of people managed together during their time in Graz. [Read More]
Structuralism  Venice  Graz