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 

2010

 Posted on November 11, 2010  |  1 minutes  |  117 words  |  Adam

fretae phonis for a concert that took place in the Kevin Barry Room at the National Concert Hall, Dublin hosted by the Irish Composer’s Collective A simple geometric process transforms harmonic material, from section to section, in the acoustic space. It was writ without an idea of semantic structure. In other words, with a lot of curiosity and not that much technical know-how. Many of the works from around this time were playing around with these sort of “elastic” structures. [Read More]
Indeterminate Structures 

2017

 Posted on January 1, 0001  |  2 minutes  |  353 words  |  Adam

A way after remains or reflections In his poem Bogland, Seamus Heaney writes about the influence of the landscape on the pioneers. He compares the Prarie of the Western USA with the Moores in Ireland. A way after remains or reflections is certainly not a long walk into the sunset. The ground swallows an endless horizon. Every layer contains immaculate black. The horizon appears again nonchalant fleeting it cleaves the ground to the ground. [Read More]