Elastic Harmonic

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Crash Ensemble,

Crash Ensemble, one of Ireland’s most dynamic and innovative performance groups, was founded in 1997 by composer Donnacha Dennehy. Since its first sold-out concert in Dublin in the autumn of 1997, the group has attracted enthusiastic audiences for its particular blend of music, video and electronics.The group is interdisciplinary in outlook, and considers its sound engineers, technicians and video makers as much a part of the enterprise as the musicians.

Crash has commissioned or premiered a large amount of works by many composers incuding Peter Adriaansz, Raymond Deane, Donnacha Dennehy, Arnold Dreyblatt, Stephen Gardner, Michael Gordon, John Godfrey, Andrew Hamilton, Jurgen Simpson, Gerhard Stabler, Jennifer Walshe, Ian Wilson and Kevin Volans. It has worked directly with all the above, and with other composers such as Louis Andreissen, Gavin Bryars, Gloria Coates, Roger Doyle, Michael Maierhof and Steve Reich.

As well as performing regularly throughout Ireland, Crash has appeared in the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, USA and Canada and has been broadcast on radio in all these countries.

Crash has made an indelible mark on the Irish music scene and beyond. They believe in a joyous yet absolutely rigorous engagement with the most adventurous music of today and the (extremely) recent past.

Crash Ensemble is supported by the Arts Council.

Website: http://www.crashensemble.com

ensemble Intégrales ,

Founded in 1993, ensemble Intégrales has earned itself a special reputation in the contemporary music scene placing special emphasis on dramaturgic profile and concept. 'With commitment and zest...The vitality of both playing and writing augurs well for the future of contemporary music.’ expressed the Irish Times, following a concert of the ensemble in Belfast.

In addition to interdisciplinary projects and a focus on young composers, their explicit interest in non-European cultures represents a further important part of their work. Since their foundation, the ensemble has built an excellent international reputation for their performances of new chamber music works. The enormous scope of their repertoire is documented in various radio, CD and TV recordings.

Performing throughout Europe, the USA and Asia, ensemble Intégrales has also been invited by renowned festivals including the Berliner Festwochen, Gaudeamus Festival, Bregenzer Festspiele, Wien Modern, Bludenzer Tage für zeitgemässe Musik, Fadjr -Festival (Iran), Bodenseefestival, Schleswig Holstein Festival and many others.

The concerts of ensemble Intégrales reflect the diversity, playfulness and beauty unique to contemporary music. The relaxed, undogmatic attitude of the ensemble, their enormous stylistic variety, and virtuosity and last but not least, their joy in performing is immediately communicated to the audience.

The exciting and versatile programs of ensemble Intégrales, which also include interaction with other art forms, are extremely well received and are even able to reach out to an audience, which might usually be sceptical towards the standard ways of presenting so-called ‚serious’ music.

Website: http://www.ensemble-integrales.com

Tracks

Disc 1

Glamour Sleeper

10'

23"

Paddy

42"

Junk Box Fraud

12'

31"

Elastic Harmonic

13'

02"

pAt

10'

52"

Streetwalker

11'

07"

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COMPOSER:

Donnacha DENNEHY

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Dennehy has written, “There is a whiff of high-class vandalism about my work” – an opinion borne out by this disc, which collects works from his early, uproarious Junk Box Fraud - for two increasingly smutty vocalists and strident ensemble – and pAt, for piano and taped "shipping forecast" – to the recent lyrical violin concerto, Elastic Harmonic, with soloist Darragh Morgan.

"Giddy, visceral urban techno avant-gardism .... Miles away from the unhinged discordant swagger of Glamour Sleeper on the NMC disc." Gramaphone

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"Giddy, visceral urban techno avant-gardism" Gramophone

"The performances are fresh, furious and frenetic ... The essence of his [Dennehy's] style embraces obvious aspects of minimalism – feisty and explosive in the crazed electro-acoustic idiom of Junk Box Fraud ... mesmerising and liquid in the newest work featured, Dennehy's 2005 Elastic Harmonic for violin and orchestra." Scotsman

"Dennehy likes to imbue his pieces with an urban energy and drive them with the punchy impact of a rock band. He also likes and air of derangement, as if to suggest both a breaching of conventional boundaries and Jean Tinguely-like disintegration" Irish Times

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PUBLISHING DETAILS

Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland

RECORDING CREDITS

Glamour Sleeper was recorded in Illingen, Germany in May 2003.

Recorded by SAARLÄNDISCHER RUNDFUNK Saarbrücken.
Producer: WOLFGANG KORB for for Saarländischer Rundfunk.
Editor: MARKO CICILIANI
Paddy was recorded in Harlem, The Netherlands in 2003.
Engineer: GUIDO TICHELMAN
Producer: RUTGER VAN OTTERLOO
Junk Box Fraud was recorded at Pulse Studios, Dublin in 2000, and Streetwalker at Westland Studios, Dublin in 2004.
Producer: DONNACHA DENNEHY
Editors KIERAN LYNCH and DONNACHA DENNEHY
Elastic Harmonic was recorded in the National Concert Hall, Dublin on 30 January 2007.
Engineer: ANTON TIMONEY
Producer: DONNACHA DENNEHY
Supported by RTÉ
pAt was recorded at RTÉ Studios, Dublin in 2001, with the kind assistance of Lyric FM.
Producer & editor: DONNACHA DENNEHY
Executive Producer: COLIN MATTHEWS
Cover photo: SOPHIE ELBRICK DENNEHY
Design: FRANCOIS HALL

Elastic Harmonic (P) 2007 RTÉ
Glamour Sleeper (P) 2007 SAARLÄNDISCHER RUNDFUNK Saarbrücken.
All other works (P) 2007 NMC Recordings Ltd.

Catalogue number: NMC D133

Release Date: 4 June 2007

NMC D133

Donnacha Dennehy: Elastic Harmonic