After the premiere in Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival last November, These hills used to be forests will be performed again at New Music Dublin on Thursday 3rd April 2025.
Beginner’s Guide To Slow Travel is a devised piece composed collaboratively by Sebastian Adams (1991), Robert Coleman (1989), Yseult Cooper Stockdale (1991), Jane Hackett (1991), Hannah Miller (1994) and Joan Somers Donnelly (1991).
Date(s)
February 20, 2025
Location
Harty Room, Music Building
Time
13:10 - 14:00
How can we craft new ways to live, work and relate to our surroundings as the tangible impact of anthropogenic climate change accelerates? At a time when air travel no longer seems justifiable, leap with Dublin-based new music group Kirkos into this fascinating sonic and spatial exploration of slowness.
Commissioned by New Music Dublin, sound and hcmf// with the support of Culture Ireland and PRS Foundation Beyond Borders. Kirkos is funded through Arts Council of Ireland Arts Grant Funding and supported by Dublin City Council.
Beginner’s Guide To Slow Travel is a devised piece composed collaboratively by Sebastian Adams (1991), Robert Coleman (1989), Yseult Cooper Stockdale (1991), Jane Hackett (1991), Hannah Miller (1994) and Joan Somers Donnelly (1991).
See Sound website for more details and booking information.
How can we craft new ways to live, work and relate to our surroundings as the tangible impact of anthropogenic climate change accelerates? At a time when air travel no longer seems justifiable, leap with Dublin-based new music group Kirkos into this fascinating sonic and spatial exploration of slowness.
Commissioned by New Music Dublin, sound and hcmf// with the support of Culture Ireland and PRS Foundation Beyond Borders. Kirkos is funded through Arts Council of Ireland Arts Grant Funding and supported by Dublin City Council.
In association with the University of Aberdeen Music Department.
This soundwalk in the Belfast’s Botanic Gardens explores human relationship to wildlife in this close urban setting through sound and performance.
ReRoot is a hybrid soundwalk performance created by composer and sound artist Robert Coleman and dancer and choreographer Laura Sarah Dowdall for the Barnaslingan Wood.
Beginner’s Guide To Slow Travel is a devised piece composed collaboratively by Sebastian Adams (1991), Robert Coleman (1989), Yseult Cooper Stockdale (1991), Jane Hackett (1991), Hannah Miller (1994) and Joan Somers Donnelly (1991).
Sundays at Noon concert series is delighted to be back in the sculpture hall after the summer break to present violinist Larissa O'Grady as part of the 'Composer Colleagues' project, initiated by CMC, in which composers are paired with an instrumentalist and create works specifically for them. The composers working with Larissa for this programme are:
David Bremner, Anselm McDonnell, Judith Ring, Jenn Kirby, Fiona Linnane and Robert Coleman.
Larissa O’Grady is an Irish violinist dedicated to performing contemporary music and exploring adventurous interpretations of the standard repertoire. Recently performing as the Music Network RESONATE Artist in Residence at the Dock Arts Centre in Leitrim and as an Artist in Residence at Centre Culturel Irlandais Paris.As a member of Ireland’s leading contemporary music group, Crash Ensemble, Larissa has premiered the works of composers such as Donnacha Dennehy, Ann Cleare, Nico Muhly and David Lang. Orchestral music making is also an important part of Larissa’s career and she performs regularly with Ireland’s foremost opera orchestra, Irish National Opera. Larissa’s repertoire encompasses a wide range, from baroque to important 20th century works and new compositions by some of today’s most innovative and exciting composers. Her interests include extended violin techniques, collaboration and innovation in music. Larissa has collaborated with musicians, dancers, poets and designers and has recently completed the Postgraduate Certificate course in Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at University College Dublin. 2021 Mentorship with violinists Jennifer Koh and Mari Kimura 2022 Mentorship with Mira Benjamin, Miranda Cuckson and Astrid Baumgardner. Mentorship kindly supported by Dublin City Council and the Arts Council of Ireland. Larissa plays a 2021 Christian Bayon violin, supported by Music Network’s Music Capital Scheme, funded by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media. Music Network is funded by The Arts Council.
Full details and booking here:
For the second instalment of the School of Wild Listening the Water Project presents a new audio-visual work entitled Prism, as well as a short overview of their work to date.
Anthrome / Biome Soundwalk is a reflection on the dichotomy of the natural versus manmade.
A live site specific performative walk through the urban landscape of Tallaght, that will explore stories of love and intimacy.
“Interference” is by Georgios Varoutsos, Lara Weaver, Robert Coleman, and the Sound and Space Research Group. This piece is based on interactions experienced within Belfast Harbour where the Lagan River meets the sea. Contact microphones and hydrophones revealed a range of sounds transmitted through air and water. The harbour is host to sea travel, tourist visits, wildlife, and commercial buildings, plus constant interference that often goes unnoticed: radio frequencies, sea life activity, and interactions in the urban environment. The piece enables another mode to listen to these spaces.
The Irish Science, Sound, and Technology Association (ISSTA) presents the River Shannon Soundwalk for ICMC 2022.
The River Shannon flows through the University of Limerick, and it was this feature that inspired the conference theme “standing wave.” To explicitly connect sonic practices with the river’s environs, ISSTA invited artists to contribute to a soundwalk. We asked for musical compositions, performances, spoken word, and other experiments addressing themes of geography and travel, water and way-finding, history and heritage, culture and family, storytelling and poetry, imagined spaces and places. We were interested in artists exploring their heritage or previous connections with Ireland, as well as artists considering an Irish context for the first time.
Full information can be found at the ISSTA website here
Budding Sounds is a climate change and sound art project that local composer and sound artist Robert Coleman initiated with students from Clonburris N.S. and Rathfarnham Parish N.S.
Delighted to be included in this programme A Music Bridge over Syggrou vol. 7 with the Greek premiere of my electronic work “Hommage à Xenakis” (2016) on March 3rd.
I will be performing with Kirkos a newly devised work titled Music for Cranes at Dublin Fringe Festival.
Full details can be found on Dublin Fringe Festival website here
I will be performing works by Alison Knowles, Sebastian Adams and a newly devised piece by Kirkos as part of Culture Night 2021 in collaboration with CMC.
Full details can be found on CMC website here
Robert will be presenting a new site-specific audiovisual installation at Fuddlefest 2021.
My new audiovisual piece titled 100 Metres will be premiered as part of Crash Ensemble’s Free State 13 at New Music Dublin 2021
For Private Use is “an experimental anthology to help you hear, see and taste your environment in new ways, and redefine what you mean by the word performance.”
The Colour Green is a short opera commissioned by Irish National Opera for the 20 Shots of Opera project. Inspired by Mark Boyle, the moneyless man and written by composer Robert Coleman.
Biosphere has been co-curated by myself and Sebastian Adams and is a festival featuring a series of new works by Irish and international composers. I will also be performing in works by friends such as Patrick Ellis, Arie Verheul-van de Ven, Wilson Leywantono and more.
Biosphere also will feature my new work ‘Decay is inherent in all things’ commissioned by Jane Hackett with funds from the Arts Council of Ireland.
Full details and updates here at kirkosensemble.com
My new work City Koto Triptych, in collaboration with Pim Piët will be premiered at the Spring Festival Online on April 14th at 19:00.
Concept/Design by Robert Coleman and Pim Piët
Audiovisual composition by Robert Coleman
Instrument design by Pim Piët
Performed by Robert Coleman
City Koto Triptych is an audiovisual composition featuring the City Koto, an instrument designed by artist Pim Piët. I recorded improvisations in three closely related tunings and formed the work from this material. The visuals also feature additional imagery of the instrument, creating shifts in the visual scale, allowing for different perspectives on the sound.
Full information and programme available at the event here
