Echoes of Malahide: A Soundtrack Through the Seasons

WALK DESCRIPTION This is a piece of music in 8 geolocated sections for location (field) recordings, synthesizers, and percussion. Between each section there is a short 'beat interlude'. It is experienced through the Echoes app and a pair of headphones. When you arrive at a specific location in the National Botanical Gardens, that location’s music will be triggered on the Echoes app. There is a suggested route by following each 'echo' and pathway; however, the sections can also be heard in any order. By taking in each of the eight locations, the total walk should last a little under an hour. SOUNDWALK INFORMATION Growing up close by, the National Botanic Gardens in Glasnevin have been foundational throughout my life. They were a place of exploration through my young childhood; a picturesque backdrop for photographing coming of age family events; a place of solace & escape through my teenage & young adult years; and throughout COVID-19 lockdown, it was one of the few places where it was possible to meet friends & family at a distance. Now as a father, it is a place of exploration once more, as I visit almost on a weekly basis with my young son. Moreover, it continues to be a place of solace & comfort. My dad is buried right next door in Glasnevin Cemetery, and when he died during strict lockdown in 2021, knowing that he was buried in such a beautiful place, surrounded by such an abundance of life, brought solace when we were robbed of the traditional grieving rituals that help us deal with such loss. On 27 January 2023, myself and my four-year-old son went exploring some of our favourite spots in the National Botanical Gardens, and by making location (field) recordings collected sounds that excited us. I have taken these location recordings home, and augmented or ornamented them by articulating the resonant frequencies found on the recordings on synthesizers and other instruments I have at home. The location recordings you can hear are the result of naively listening to not only the environment around us, but our place, and our impact within it. As a result, there is no attempt to edit or remove ourselves from the recordings, and at times you can hear myself and my son discussing things that we hear and see with wonder and appreciation. I hope you enjoy this little ornamented soundwalk guided by myself and a four-year-old, and enjoy exploring the beauty of the National Botanical Gardens. Feel free to follow the path that we took, or to make your own way around the different geolocations. I made this piece as preparatory research for an different work I'm currently writing for Plus Minus Ensemble as part of Zubin Kanga's Cyborg Soloists UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship at Royal Holloway University of London.

ACCESSOR is an interactive artwork created as part of Dublin Fringe Festival 2024, by Bill Harris. This work features audio, performers, planted objects and speculative situations for viewers to engage with. It can only be experienced during pre-booked slots. A special thank you goes to the cast of this performance, Michael O'Reilly, Chloe Reynolds, Aindriú O'Deasiún and the producer Dave Kelly. Image by Aisling Phelan. This work was developed at the Fringe LAB as part of the Break New Ground Bursary Award. It has also received mentorship support from Maïa Nunes as part of their Outside Eye project, alongside mentorship support from Tom O'Dea and dramaturgical support from Sean Finnan. This work is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, the Fingal Artist Support Scheme 2024 and ECHOES.XYZ.

Food tour around the Dublin City Centre. I recommend doing the walk in this order, but any configuration will work (Heartbreak Social Club -> J2 Sushi -> Han Sung -> Pocha -> Mama's Revenge). The walk is supposed to help you make up your mind on what you want to eat that day but it's also suitable to try them all in the same day, as a form of a testing experience. So you can walk through all of them or listen to only the ones that interest you by checking the location title of each place, with their name and kind of cuisine they do, so it's nice and easy for you. Enjoy!

Jonathan Swift monologue in the Long Room

'A Little Terror' by Sophie White As part of Listening to the City II, curated by Michelle Browne, commissioned by Dublin City Council as part of Growing Together for the International Literature Festival Dublin.

Download app https://explore.echoes.xyz/ and then open QR code in app. Details https://www.recordedfields.net/installations/dublin-pavilion-of-air/ Walk slowly to allow sounds to enter gradually, notice the borders of these zones where new sounds fade-in, spend time in some places to notice the long sounds develop. Explore the grounds of the Square beyond the paths. Robert Curgenven’s “Baile Átha Cliath Pailliún Aeir i bhFoirm Oscailte” (Dublin Open Form Pavilion of Air) is an audiowork which uses sound and site-mapping to offer a playful renewal and reframing of public space as an essential place of engagement for the community. Inspired by Polish architects Oskar & Zofia Hansen’s “Open Form” architectural concept (ca. 1959), the audio work is presented as a Pavilion without walls - a roof made from sound - that is heard to extend across the public space of Merrion Square. By traversing different zones within the park using your mobile phone, the Echoes app and headphones, you become a participatory listener producing a composition in real-time as your navigation creates a unique choreography via GPS, combining and changing sounds mapped within the site through the app. A new layer of experience is rendered within Merrion Square as the simplicity of the invisible roof and the absorbing physicality of its sound transforms the location and its context. The Pavilion has no visible presence outside the app and can only be accessed and enjoyed on-site in Merrion Square.