PRESS Coverage Moiety

PRESS Coverage Moiety
RADIO:
RTE Arena - Abie Philip Pullman
Interview with Peter Power & David Duffy
New Noise on 2XM - July 1 2013
Niamh Hegarty Review - ‘Gig of the year so far’
PRINT:
The Cork News - June 14 2013
http://thecorknews.ie/articles/fusion-moiety-11079
Cork Independent - June 27 2013
Gigs of the week - Brian Hayes Curtin
http://corkindependent.com/20130627/setlist/musiclist-S67625.html
BLOG:
Wearenoise - June 20 2013
Interview with Peter Power - Conor O’Toole
http://wearenoise.com/index.php/2013/06/moiety-the-peter-power-interview/
Wearenoise - July 1 2013
Moiety in Pictures - Simona Della Fornace
http://wearenoise.com/index.php/2013/07/moiety-in-pictures-cork-school-of-music-28-06-13/
Wearenoise - July 2 2013
Review: Moiety - Kieran O’Keeffe
http://wearenoise.com/index.php/2013/07/review-moiety-by-eat-my-noise-cork-school-of-music28-06-13/
LISTINGS:
CIT Website:
http://arts.cit.ie/viewEvent?id=140
Entertainment.ie, Corkgigs, PROC, thumped, eventful, corkentertainment.ie, whazon,
allevents.in
AUDIENCE RESPONSE:
“Just seen my gig of the year so far Moeity w/ @Eatmynoise for @CorkMidsummer is mind
blowing”
Niamh Hegarty
“An amazing last day @CorkMidsummer 3 superb shows @CorcadorcaCork @FirkinCrane
@Eatmynoise all home grown talents, but all world class acts”
Whazon Cork
“Really great show guys.Loved it all from the music to the'cast-away sci-fi blouses'! A special
mention to light design as well, thought was great. I was just expecting Peter's and Dave's
control positions to start floating and rotating or something. Go on, bring it to us again in some
other venues!”
Gianluca Tarallo
“Excellent Show Last Nite!! Well done to you all !!”
Loris Fancoletti
Artistic
Statement
Peter
Power
My ambition as an artist is to be at the forefront of placing music in an immersive role for performative events. My ambition as a Composer/
Director has been to make large-­‐scale multimedia work that represents the best my country has to offer from our past present and future. If I were asked to describe my work in a single sentence, it would be; the collaborative music of the future, linking audiences young and old with ensemble work through electronics, interactive live visual events and a multimedia narrative.
I wish to exist Birmly as a composer in the space between electronic and acoustic music, honing a new artistic direction from their union via live electronics. From this, I believe ballet, opera, operetta, musical theatre and dance can be reconsidered, in new formats and contexts, and I want to create them: I want to use orchestras like synthesizers, choirs like sampling pads; make video write music from what it sees; dancers act as the controllers for live interactive composition; allow children to create music live from the touch of a button, have new opera staged in new settings and with new stories.
My works rests at the epicentre of the new dialogue of British and Irish work: the pursuit of meaningful experience and form in the limitless landscape of interdisciplinary possibilities made attainable via technology. In my work this has been achieved through the language of collaboration and the creation of connections.
In the spirit of this collaboration, one of the leading philosophies of my work has always been that music is not something that should be attached after a Bilm is made, a theatre piece is written or directed, a visual artist has completed their work, or an installation built. I believe that music, composers, and music performers should be involved in the conversations and process before these stages, where the music emerges within and alongside the ideas, and not afterwards. In that sense, it becomes part of what it underscores, rather than resting on top.
I believe that there are no genres left, no walls and no rules; But I don’t believe that this implies we need to abandon anything. Rather we just need to gather everything around us and begin to see the natural connections all things have now. For me electronics and technology function as the medium for this, and my work in collaborative music creation is an exploration of that potential and the power this view has to connect the seemingly unconnected.
My work exists as a nexus point between various disciplines, a collaborative expression of various art forms tied together with Music. I relish the challenge of multimedia work and the prospect of using music as a language that ties all these various forms together in common artistic and educational goals. Composing in this fashion is more than just making music, but rather about breaking down the walls and expectations of music as an art form and reimagining it in more interactive and exciting ways.
Having created and composed choral works and operetta in the past, and having a new choral work coming up this year, I feel that the opportunity to compose for choir and opera is one that Bits very much into the work I make. This process of Binding ways for large scale events to occur that create entire worlds and experiences for those involved is a cornerstone of the work I make, and the chance to do so in such an environment is very exciting.
The emphasis on workshops and the sharing of my knowledge and creation process is one that I wholly look forward to. The opportunity to share and demystify composition and its constructs in modern technology is a goal I hold very dear. In all these ways I feel very excited about my residency In Performa and it is one that would suit my process greatly.