From the Sources

In 2010, Ireland celebrates the centenary of the birth of Aloys Fleischmann*. In summer 2010, as part of those celebrations, the Lewis Glucksman Gallery, UCC, will present an ambitious new work From the Sources, created by composer and UCC lecturer, Mel Mercier*. Based on Fleischmann's Sources of Irish Traditional Music*, From the Sources will feature filmed performances by almost 100 traditional musicians - all UCC graduates, tutors and students - of the first 986 dance tunes and airs contained in Fleischmann's monumental work.

Some 20 hours of footage, capturing almost 1000 performances, on all the traditional instruments, will be edited for six simultaneous projections in the Glucksman's upper gallery to create a John Cage-like audio-visual installation. In addition to the sound art installation created by Mercier for the gallery spaces, an archive of all the recorded performances will be available for
public consultation during the exhibition run.

Taking the compositions of Turlough O'Carolan as a watershed in the history of Irish music, From the Sources will re-animate the pre-modern Irish musical soundscape encoded in the more than 100 music manuscripts published up to that time. Beginning with the first tune in Fleischmann's collection, 'The Hay', and ending with 'Planxty by Carolan', From the Sources will create an echo of that soundscape in the Glucksman Gallery, and open the treasure house of Fleischmann's collection to generations of musicians, listeners and scholars in Ireland and throughout the Irish music world.

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