Dublin Sound Lab, Michael Quinn and Fergal Dowling’s specialist electroacoustic and computer music performance group, will host two days of interactive electronic music at Project Arts Centre, Dublin, on 21 and 22 October.

Entitled Music Current, the event will feature leading computer music performer and composer, Karlheinz Essl, whose work focuses on a blurring of the boundary between composer and performer in the context of computer-mediated sound. Essl will present Irish premieres of some of his own works, in addition to directing a day-long workshop that will explore issues relating to improvisation and compositional interaction with computers and electronic instruments.

The workshop will be open to instrumentalists, singers, computer musicians and composers of electronic or acoustic music. Participants will be divided into groups, and will ultimately devise a programme of mixed-media works to be presented as the final concert of the event, on the evening of 22 October. Participants may also have the opportunity to present acoustic or solo works involving improvisation. Computer musicians are advised that they should use their own equipment, and that an audio technician will be on hand to offer assistance throughout the weekend.

For full details on participation in the workshop see the Dublin Sound Lab website.

www.dublinsoundlab.ie