About.
Linda Buckley
Linda Buckley is a composer from the Old Head of Kinsale, currently based in Dublin. Her music has been described as "strange and beautiful" (Boston Globe, July 2004), a "fascinating interaction between live sound and electronics" (Irish Times, Nov 2006), with “an exciting body of work that marks her out as a leading figure in the younger generation of Irish composers working in the medium” (Journal of Music, Sept 2008).
Her work has been performed by the Dresden Sinfoniker Orchestra, Crash Ensemble, Fidelio Trio, Orkest de Ereprijs, Janus Trio, Rothko Trio, University of York Javanese Gamelan, and featured at international festivals including the Bang on a Can Summer Institute of Music at MassMoCA, Gaudeamus Music Week Amsterdam and Seoul International Computer Music Festival.
Linda is a member of the Spatial Music Collective, dedicated to the creation and presentation of spatial acoustic and electroacoustic music.
She studied Music at University College Cork, and Music and Media Technologies at Trinity College Dublin. She holds a Ph.D in Composition from Trinity College, where she also lectures.
Past Performances (selected)
Performing with flute & live electronics
- June 2011
- fiol for string trio, West Cork Chamber Music Festival, Bantry, & Éigse Arts Festival Carlow
- May 2011
- Performance with the ireland:iceland project, MindField Festival, Dublin (line-up also includes Valgeir Sigurđsson, Puzzle Muteson, Laura Sheeran, Cora Venus Lunny, Trevor Knight and other special guests)
- Premiere of chiyo, commissioned by the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra | National Concert Hall, Dublin
- fiol for string trio; Cliodhna Ryan (violin), Cian O Duill (viola), Kate Ellis (cello) | Kaleidoscope, Odessa
- April 2011
- Immersia installation, opening with performance of revelavit for voice & tape, Ergodos at LEAP (Lab for Electronic Arts and Performance) | Berlin
- Telephones and gongs (with Mel Mercier), UCC Javanese Gamelan | Cork Opera House
- Surround sound installation at Imagine/Create Festival | University of Ulster, Derry
- March 2011
- Silk Chroma visual music work in collaboration with Maura McDonnell (visuals), Sensorium Festival | Project Arts Centre, Dublin
- Premiere of revelavit for voice & tape, Michelle O'Rourke, Sensorium Festival | Project Arts Centre, Dublin
- moonsick for clarinet & cello, Palomar Ensemble | St. James Chapel, Chicago
- Premiere of new work for Darragh Morgan, exploding stars, violin & 8-channel tape | Kevin Barry room, NCH, Spatial Music Collective
- February 2011
- galura for piano trio & electronics, Fidelio Trio | M.I.T. Boston
- Silk Chroma (with Maura McDonnell), SoundImageSound 8, University of the Pacific, California
- December 2010
- Irene and Linda Buckley (a.k.a frózi versus mikroscób) | Plugd Records, Cork
- November 2010
- New work with the Spatial Music Collective at Severed Head Gallery Dublin
- Silk Chroma, visual music surround sound project in collaboration with Dermot Furlong, Maura McDonnell and Gavin Kearney | Printing House Trinity College Dublin.
- Remix of Take Yourself To The City by B-Movie Lightning
- October 2010
- joklar for piano | Mary Dullea, piano, Transit Festival, Leuven, Belgium.
- net for ensemble and electronics | Musicacoustica, Beijing
- EP release of electronic music, Ergodos (following recent release of dubh performed by Amsterdam's Trio Scordatura)
- July-Oct 2010
- Co-curator for Biorhythm Exhibition | Science Gallery, Dublin
- September 2010
- net for ensemble & tape, Latitude/Longitude for String Quartet, curation for Kaleidoscope | Odessa, Dublin
- August 2010
- fiol for string trio | NUI Maynooth
- August 2010
- New work glimmer for Dublin Guitar Quartet, with Spatial Music Collective, | Smock Alley, Dublin
- July 2010
- dubh for voice, viola, keyboard and tape | Odessa, Dublin
- April 2010
- do you remember the planets? for Viola & Tape | Crash Ensemble, Kings Place, London
- March 2010
- New work for traditional Chinese instruments, uilleann pipes & strings | Beijing, China
- March 2010
- Telephones and Gongs, for Javanese Gamelan (co-composed with Mel Mercier) | O Riada Hall, UCC, Cork
- February 2010
- Osmosis, Kylemore College Orchestra, Irish Association of Youth Orchestras | National Concert Hall, Dublin
- December 2009
- Premiere of numarimur, for Ergodos Voices | Kevin Barry Room, National Concert Hall, Dublin
- October 2009
- Spatial music presentation and workshop, with Spatial Music Collective, as part of Dublin Electronic Arts Festival | Kevin Barry Room, National Concert Hall, Dublin
- October 2009
- Performance with Yurodny (live electronics) as part of Dublin Electronic Arts Festival | Button Factory, Dublin
- October 2009
- Premiere of turn, Dresdner Sinfoniker (performance incorporates simultaneous video linkup with Ex Novo Ensemble in Venice and Indian vocalist) in conjunction with Europäisches Zentrum der Künste | Dresdner Sinfoniker, Dresden
- September 2009
- Galura, Fidelio Trio | Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
- August 2009
- Score/sound design for Red Lola, Asylum Theatre | Millstreet studios, Dublin
- June 2009
- Premiere of clusterphobe for 8-channel playback | Kevin Barry Room, National Concert Hall, Dublin
- June 2009
- Score/sound design for Red Lola, Asylum Theatre | Triskel Arts Centre Cork
- April 2009
- Premiere of new work eiru for University of York Javanese Gamelan ensemble | Ergodos Festival MMX, Dublin
- March 2009
- Telephones and Gongs, for Javanese Gamelan (co-composed with Mel Mercier) | O Riada Hall, UCC
- February 2009
- beannacht, Trio Scordatura | De Link, Tilburg, Netherlands
- December 2008
- Premiere of new work beannacht for Trio Scordatura | Muziekcentrum de Badcuyp, Amsterdam
- November 2008
- Nikuda, Ensemble Scratch the Surface | Irish tour
- November 2008
- Wayang for ensemble & live electronics | Shadow Play, Seoul International Music Festival
- Sep 4th 2008
- Galura for Piano Trio and Electronics | Fidelio Trio, Contemporaneamente Festival, Aula Magna del Liceo, Lodi, Italy
- July 2008
- galura for piano trio | Fidelio Trio, the Warehouse, Waterloo, London.
- nikuda for ensemble | Ensemble Scratch the Surface, the Warehouse, Waterloo, London
- June 2008
- nikuda for ensemble | Ensemble Scratch the Surface, Soundwaves Festival, Brighton
- May 2008
- Q for voice & tape | Natasha Lohan, Trinity College of Music London.
- fiol for string trio | Rothko String Trio, Hugh Lane Gallery premiere and Irish tour
- April 2008
- seek for 8-channel tape | CMC new music marathon, Maynooth
- March 2008
- volt, joklar, Q, galura | Composer's Choice concert with the Fidelio Trio and Natasha Lohan, National Concert Hall Dublin (John Field Room)
- immersia installation for electronics | Snakes & Ladders Festival, Winter Garden, New York, New York
- January 2008
- fall approaches for choir and 8-channel tape | New Dublin Voices, Trinity College Chapel Dublin (Spatial Music Collective)
- Nov 2007
- flit for flute and piano | Jennifer Wilhelms (flute) and Matthew McCright (piano), St. John's Church, West Village Manhattan, New York
- Oct 2007
- volt for violin and piano | Gregory Harrington (violin), Isabelle O' Connell (piano), Carnegie Hall (Weill Recital Hall), New York
- latitude longitude for string quartet | NUI Cork
- do you remember the planets? for viola and tape | Crash Ensemble Free State concert, SS Michael & John, Dublin
- latitude longitude for string quartet | University of Limerick
- latitude longitude for string quartet | NUI Galway
- latitude longitude for string quartet | Kilkenny
- latitude longitude for string quartet | Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray
- Sep 2007
- Premiere of latitude longitude for string quartet | National Gallery Dublin
- joklar for piano | David Adams, Goethe Institut, Dublin
- do you remember the planets? for Viola and Tape | Present Music Ensemble, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Jul 2007
- do you remember the planets? for Viola & Tape | William Lane, International Viola Congress, Adelaide
- Jun 2007
- Premiere of Volt for Violin & Piano | Darragh Morgan and Mary Dullea, The Warehouse, London
- Jun 2007
- Premiere of osmosis for Orchestra | The Gateway Orchestra, Clonard Church, Wexford
- May 2007
- Performance (electronic improvisation) at NWEAMO | Berlin & Venice
- Apr 2007
- all collisions end in static for Flute, Viola, Harp & Tape | Janus Trio, Colgate University Chapel, New York
- Mar 2007
- Telephones and Gongs (co-composer Mel Mercier) for Javanese Gamelan | O Riada Hall, UCC
- Jan 2007
- do you remember the planets? for Viola and Tape | William Lane, Theatre Royal, Hobart, Australia, and Cygnet Conservatory, Tasmania
- Nov 2006
- zone for Piano | Matthew McCright (USA), Printing House, Trinity College Dublin
- Nov 2006
- Stratus for Ensemble and Tape | Crash Ensemble, O’ Reilly Theatre Dublin
- Oct 2006
- all collisions end in static for Flute, Viola, Harp and Tape | Janus Trio, Roulette, New York
- May 2006
- Nonac for Voice and Tape | Brighton Festival Fringe, University of Brighton
- Sep 2005
- Bobeobi | Orchestra de Ereprijs, Gaudeamus Music Week, Amsterdam
- Aug 2005
- Moonsick for Clarinet & Cello | Massimo di Trolio and Oliver Coates, commissioned by the Internationale Stichting Masterclass Apeldoorn
- Jun 2005
- ill met for Tape at Resounding Spaces | New York University, in conjunction with the 8th Biennial Feminist Theory and Music Conference, New York
- Apr 2005
- Libera Me for Choir, Organ and 4-Channel Tape | Renegade Ensemble, University of Minnesota
- Jul 2004
- Amhrain Amergin for large ensemble | Bang on a Can Summer Institute of Music at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
- Apr 2003
- Percolate for Percussion & Tape | Niamh O' Shea, University of Toronto
- Mar 2003
- Score for theatre adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Nightingale and the Rose, Cairo Theatre Symposium
- Feb 2002
- en-ek for Piano and Tape | Rolf Hind, John Field Room, National Concert Hall Dublin