All members are invited to join Enda Bates and Elliott Sharp for a post-concert reception and Q&A.
Emerging Artists Commission recipient Enda Bates' hexaphonic guitar is simply a standard electric guitar with a special pickup providing access to each individual string signal. This allows each string to be processed differently and to be routed to a different place in the room. In this new piece, written specifically for ISSUE’s 15-channel hanging speaker system, the guitar will be transformed not just sonically but also spatially, as a localized guitar splits into individual strings, becoming a fragmented sonic cloud that will mimic the flight of birds as it moves around the audience.
Enda Bates is a composer, musician, producer and academic based in Dublin, Ireland. In March 2010, he completed a PhD in composition at Trinity College Dublin, where he studied with Donnacha Dennehy and Dr. Dermot Furlong.
His music includes both acoustic and electroacoustic contemporary music and multi-channel, electronic music, and the use of spatially distributed sounds is a major feature of his work. He has received various commissions and awards including the 37th Florilege Vocal de Tours, the 2008 Irish National Choir of the Year competition, the 2009 Gaudeamus Music Prize shortlist and the 2010 Música Viva Competition. His work has been performed by, among others, the Crash Ensemble, Anne La Berge, the Doelen Quartet, Trio Scordatura, New Dublin Voices, the Miso Music Loudspeaker Orchestra and at international festivals including the Música Viva Festival, Gaudeamus Music Week, the International Computer Music Conference and the Dublin Electronic Arts Festival.
He is a founder member of the Spatial Music Collective and also regularly performs with the Spook of the Thirteenth Lock, Miriam Ingram and Fairlights.