Older Concerts
Presented during Béal Festival, this setting of Bill Husband's poem, Still, performed by Paul Roe (bass clarinet), Elizabeth Hilliard (soprano), Fergal Dowling (computer). National Concert Hall, Dublin, 3 November 2010
Presented at Música Viva Festival 2010 'Sound Walk'. This version of Pulses for the Electroacoustic walkway 'Sound Walk', an outdoor two-channel, multi-loudspeakers installation along the 100-meter walkway that leads to the main entrance of the Belém Arts Centre concert hall. Several loudspeakers are placed on each side of the walk way. Música Viva Festival 2010, Belém Arts Centre, Lisbon, 16–19 September 2010
Performance in a concert of works for harpsichord and eight loudspeakers. Other works include: J. S. Bach 'Movements from Goldberg Variations', Julio d‘Escrivan's reGoldberg, Nick Collins's Suite with Interruptions, Ailís Ní Ríain's 2 Steep 4 Sheep. Michael Quinn (harpsichord), Fergal Dowling (computer). Dublin Sound Lab, St Werburgh's Church, Dublin, 28 November 2009
Performance with Garth Knox (viola) in a programme of contemporary works for viola and electronics, including: Gérard Grisey, Prologue (viola and electronics); Salvatore Sciarrino, Tre Notturni Brillanti (viola solo); Kaija Saariaho, Vent Nocturne (viola and electronics); Garth Knox, Viola Spaces (viola solo); Luca Francesconi, Animus II (viola and electronics). Dublin Sound Lab, St Werburgh's Church, Dublin, 26 November 2009
Manchester Material presented in eight-channel horizontal surround during the International Society for Contemporary Music, World New Music Days, Gothenburg, 24 September – 4 October 2009. ISCM World Music Days, Kronhuset, Gothenburg, 4 October 2009
'Take a look at my sound', as exhibition at Galleri ORO running in conjunction with International Society for Contemporary Music, World New Music Days, Gothenburg. The work of five composers interpreted by visual artists and sculptors. Participating artists and composers are: Jean-Luc Darbellay 'Shadows for Percussions ensemble', Camilla Boström, Hanna Hartman, 'Night Lock', Arvid Wretman, Fergal Dowling, 'Manchester Material' (stereo reduction), Olof Broström, Pui-Shan Cheung, 'Dai Pai Dong', Oscar Bianch, 'Crepuscolo', Truls Mörck and Daniel Wendler. Galleri ORO, Gothenburg, 24 September – 4 October 2009
Computer-mediated performance with Peter Wiegold's ensemble notes inégales, King's Place, London, 6 September 2009
Manchester Material presented in the Japanese Society of Electronic Music / Musicological Society of Japan Electroacoustic Festival 2009. Presented in eight-channel surround sound in the festival's opening concert also featuring electroacoustic works by Pete Stollery and Françis Dohmont. JSEM/MSJ Japan Electroacoustic Festival 2009, Aichi Art Theatre, Nagoya, 9 April 2009
Presentation at ohrenhoch der Geräuschladen in continuous loop through the day. ohrenhoch der Geräuschladen, Berlin, 28 December 2008
Presentation at ohrenhoch der geräuschladen in continuous loop throughout the day.ohrenhoch der Geräuschladen, Berlin, 21 December 2008
Dublin Sound Lab concert of contemporary works for organ, violin, double bass and fixed media/electronics. Also works by Mauricio Kagel, John Cage, Wim de Ruiter, Karlheinz Essl, and Peter Ablinger. Michael Quinn (organ), Fergal Dowling (computer), Marja Tuhkanen (violin), Mercedes Carroll (double bass).Dublin Sound Lab, St Teresa's Church, Dublin, 21 November 2008
This version of Pass for the Electroacoustic walkway is presented in 'Sound Walk', an outdoor two-channel, multi-loudspeaker installation along the one hundred meter walkway that leads to the main entrance of the Belém Arts Centre concert hall. Several loudspeakers are placed on each side of the walk way. Miso Music Portugal, Belém Art Centre, Lisbon, 20?27 September 2008
Manchester Material, originally for surround sound presentation, presented in a two-channel version in the 'listening room' at International Computer Music Conference. ICMC 2008, Sonic Arts research Centre, Belfast, 24–29 August 2008
Sonic Residues Festival, Stony Brook University, New York, 29 April – 12 May 2008
Presented in a programme of surround sound electroacoustic works, also featuring works by Peter Batchelor, Chin-Chin Chen and Hans Tutschku. Oscar Peterson Concert Hall, Montréal, 7 February 2008
Grup XXI, Mark Friedhoff (cello), Sala Mompou, SGAE, Barcelona, 31 October 2007
Presentation as tow-channel fixed-media installation as part of Futuresonic 07. Futuresonic07 Victoria Baths, Manchester, 11–13 May 2007
Real-time interactive piece for computer and solo percussionist presented in the closing concert of the EAR-drum Festival at the Project Arts Centre, Dublin by the Electroacoustic Revue Ensemble and Thomas Frisch (percussion). Project Arts Centre, Dublin, 31 March 2007
Concert of new Austrian and German music for electronics and percussion, featuring: Bernhard Gal, Defragmentation/blue (fixed media); Hannes Seidl, Gegenkontrolle (percussion and fixed media) Christoph Ogiermann, I don't need any work, I've GOT enough to do (fixed media); Peter Ablinger, Kleinetrommel (Snare drum and FM-radio); Christoph Ogiermann, The last gets bitten by the dog: NO sound-installation (fixed media); Karlheinz Essl, fLOW (improvised percussion and live computer). Maeve O'Hara (percussion), Fergal Dowling (computer). Project Arts Centre, Dublin, 29 March 2007
Periphonic (3-D) surround sound concert of works specially rendered for four-channel ambisonic loudspeaker array, opening concert in the EAR-drum Festival. Project Arts Centre, Dublin, 27 March 2007
Lioba Petrie (cello), National University of Ireland, Maynooth, 8 March 2007
Presented at EAR-plugged Festival of Electroacoustic Music 2006. The festival featured audiovisual works, fixed media music, live electronic music, mixed works. Lioba Petrie (cello). The LAB, Dublin, 8–9 December 2006
Premiered in the National Concert Hall as part of the NCH Composers' Choice series. Also works by composers of the EAR collective, Michael Maierhof, Ben Dwyer and Trevor Wishart. National Concert Hall, Dublin, 26 November 2006
Short two-channel fixed-media piece presented at Unsafe Festival of improvised and experimental music. The Lighthouse, Poole, Dorset, 11 November 2006
Two concert performances in Galway in one day by Concorde new music ensemble, Adrian Mantu (cello), Concorde, Galway Museum, Galway Arts Centre, 29 July 2006
Premiere of short piece for twelve guitars and two-channel fixed media by the German guitar orchestra Ensemble GuitArt during their tour of Ireland, Ensemble GuitArt, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, 7 June 2006
CD version for Furthernoise, Resonance FM, 27 March 2006
NOVA, RTE Lyric FM, 19 March 2006
Galleri Box, Gothenburg, curated by Swedish Radio, 20–22 December 2005
Sounds Electric '05 Festival of Electroacoustic Music, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, 2 December 2005
Soundworks, University College, Cork, 29 June 2005
Version for 5.1 surround fixed media, Music Research Centre, University of York, 4 February 2005
8-channel fixed media version, Harvest Moon Festival, Oscar Peterson Hall, Montréal, 23 August 2004
Contemporary Music Centre, Meeting House Square, Dublin, 18 July 2004
Concer for voice and computer, Mediators Exhibition, Fordham Gallery, London, 26 June 2004
ArtTrail, University College, Cork, 23 June 2004
Electric Rain, Club One, Cork, 1 May 2004
Projektgruppe Neue Musik Bremen Julie Comparini (soprano), Johanna Spork (soprano), Neues Museum Weser, Bremen, 29 April 2004
Music and Media Technologies, The Printing House, Trinity College, Dublin, 12 March 2004
Sonic Arts Network concert, Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, London, 5 November 2003
Electric Rainbow Coalition, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA, 23 August 2003
Us Live, Natasha Lohan (voice), Fergal Dowling (computer). Guinness Storehouse, Dublin, 8 August 2003
Electroacoustic Revue, David Stalling (voice), Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, 9 November 2003
Sonic Arts Network Annual Conference, Sheffield University, England, 1 July 2003
MAXIS Festival of Sound and Experimental Music Leeds University, England, 12 April 2003
Sounds for an Empty Night Club, Corporation Nightclub, Sheffield, 28 March 2003
Chimera Ensemble (Rachel Quinn, soprano; and Catherine Jackson, soprano), University of York, England, 7 March 2003
Multiple-X 2002 Festival, with video by Marcel Gabatto, Institut Goethe, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 27 October 2002
MAXIS Festival of Sound and Experimental Music, Sheffield Hallam University, England, 12 April 2002
Installation for (two microphones, two loudspeakers, minidisk player) presented as culmination of 'Raumzeit' workshop with Christina Kubisch and organised by the 40th Internationale Ferienkurse f?r Neue Musik. Shenke Halle, Darmstadt, 2000.