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bio
Between 1986 and 1990, I performed a number of live visual/sound works in: Triskel Art Centre, Cork, Ireland; Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland; Crawford Gallery, Cork, Ireland and various Arts Festivals in Europe, culminating in the 'Environmentality in CFC' performance/sound art work performed in Garter Lane Art Centre, Waterford, Ireland, in 1990. Setting up one of Ireland's first Internet companies, studies and young family commitments led to an extended sabbatical from live performance. From the mid to late 1990's I moved from Performance to Musical Art Pieces, and started working under the name miXile. In 1998 the techno-electronica cover of the little known Rolling Stones - 'Blood Red Wine', was recorded for the Undercover Saloon Music CD with family members under the name of 'The Exiles'. On December 29th, 2001, I commenced a twelve month electronic music project based on field recordings made while hiking, incorporating keyboards, guitar and sampled sounds. The resulting work - 'White Horse', released in April 2003, was very much a holistic project, with a limited print run of 100 CD copies produced. Since 2001 I've been writing and recording on a continuous basis and have completed several CDs. These works have allowed me to explore various strands within the electronic genre including techno, ambient, drum & bass, and to acknowledge the influence of artists such as Radiohead, The Higher Intelligence Agency, Biosphere, Autechre, Aphex Twin and Klaus Schulze. The 2005 work, 'Phaedo' for the Sonic Vigil, St. Finbar's Cathedral Cork, Ireland, was part of a series inspired by selected literary and philosophical texts and marked a return to live performance after a fifteen year break. In June 2006, I commenced a 7 week journey that took me from Perth in Western Australia across the Nullarbor Plain and on to Sydney before travelling north to Noosa in Queensland and back to Sydney. Along the way several hundred hours of audio field recordings were made to be used as part of a series of albums and events. In October & November 2006, I performed a series of live concerts that used some of the initial field recordings made while travelling across Australia. Two albums from the series - Bibbulmun (2007) & Nullarbor (2008) have now been released with the remainder due for completion in 2009/10. In March 2008 I traveled again to Australia to carry out field recordings in Northern Queensland, specifically the tropical rain forest national park of Magnetic Island. In July 2008, I played the ‘Life Festival’ in Ireland, one of Europe’s premier Electronic music festivals. I also played at the Unsound festival in Krakow, Poland. In 2009 I played a number of festivals in Ireland as well as being invited to perform at the Transylvania Calling Festival in Romania. In Transylvania I premiered some new music based on travels in Queensland, Australia. I am currently working on the next stage of the Australian recordings series which will be based on travels in Southern Queensland, Australia. -------------------------------------------------------------- Some of my older sound work has been recorded and exists in various formats. I have master copies of pieces created to accompany performance art works from the early period. A long term goal is to collect these master recordings and make them available on this site purely as a historical document charting a considerable period of creative output. Some of it is quite dated, some of it includes contributions by people I've long since lost contact with (some of whom I never actually met) but along the way there is some great music, IMHO. One of the recordings I'd like to include is a piece I put together for an exhibition in Holland in 1989 entitled 'The Fourth Beast'. It marked my first venture into a real recording studio as well as being my first completely electronic work. Not a guitar in sight. The live performance work is by and large unrecorded. This was my intention at the time. One-off pieces that existed for those present at a single performance. An odd photo exists of these live performances in various publications like 'Circa' in Ireland and 'High Performance' in the USA. For sure, the 24 hour long piece (Will This Rock Save My Life) for Japanese flute that I performed in the Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland exists in no recorded form other than a few black and white photographs.
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I've
been working in the area of Electronic/Ambient Music/ Performance Art
since 1986. Now based in Ireland, I grew up and lived in Australia until
the mid 70s. In 1977 I briefly formed a punk band (I won't repeat the
name) and we played a single gig in a rural hotel in Ireland before being
thrown out half way through our set.
Since the beginning of 2006, I've worked on a number of commissioned works including pieces for Cambridge radio in the UK and a work based on the life and writings of Samuel Becket for the ‘Bend it Like Beckett’ CD commissioned by Art Trail.