Sources of Uncertainty ep 66
A new episode of my ddr radio show, this month it's a guest mix from Amanda Feery
https://www.mixcloud.com/DublinDigitalRadio/sources-of-uncertainty-ep-66-with-amanda-feery-27723/
This month, Amanda asked to do a guest show, I’m always happy to hear her make mixes of course, so gladly obliged. She has some other mixes she made for ddr too which I’ll post at the end of this.
This show is focused on music on organs and pipes, there’s a lot of Irish, and Ireland based musicians featured, but not exclusively. The picture for the show and the last track are from Kerry, we recently visited Dunquin, where the picture is from, and the Blasket Islands, where the last tune is from. Any time I go to Kerry I wonder why I don’t spend more time there.
Tracklist here, with links to the sources where possible:
Daniel and Fabian Löwenbrück – Dritter Satz from Das Lebacher Orgelwerk (Krim Kram)
Eimear Walshe and Ian Lynch – The Piper’s Grip
Hugo Bell – The Path Contorts as the Traces Fade (Hugo Bell website)
Maria W Horn and Mats Erlandsson - Stramonium (Bandcamp)
Brighde Chaimbeul with Colin Stetson – Tha Fonn Gun Bhi Trom (I Am Disposed of Mirth) (Bandcamp)
Sebastian Adams – 2019.7 - performed by David Adams (Soundcloud)
Robert Curgenven – Ressuscitant de l’étreinte de la Sirène (Bandcamp)
Port na bPúcaí (The Music of the Fairies) – performed by Padraic Keane (Soundcloud)
Here’s what Amanda has to say about the show:
I wanted to look at the timbre of uileann pipes and small pipes alongside a variety of works for the pipe organ. What interests me about the pipe organ is not so much virtuosity on the organ’s keyboard exactly, it’s more what can be done with air and reeds. I’m interested in the imperfections in the pipe organ and reed instruments in general. It’s the sounds in learning a reed instrument that we’re often told to correct and clean up are the sounds that interest me more. It’s really the imperfections that creep through the mechanics of these instruments that interest me the most. Some of the pieces on this mix explored these sounds, unconsciously and consciously.
There are 65 other hours of music from this show’s 5 years on ddr archived on Mixcloud here if you have that many hours to spare.
And here are some other shows from Amanda:
A show with inspirations for her opera, A Thing I Cannot Name:
https://www.mixcloud.com/DublinDigitalRadio/sources-of-uncertainty-29-07-21/
A show we both did together of Irish music:
https://www.mixcloud.com/DublinDigitalRadio/sources-of-uncertainty-08-04-21/
A mix made themed around swimming:
https://www.mixcloud.com/DublinDigitalRadio/amanda-feery-swimming-studies/
Thanks for reading, and thanks to anyone who subscribed, this is already a much more enjoyable way to talk about things going on.