'Doom & Gloom ', the Irish Sound Science and Technology Concerts, Dance Limerick, St. John's Church, Limerick

My piece Doom & Gloom was performed at the Irish sound Science & Technology Convocation, UL & MIC, Limerick, Ireland August 12-13 2015.

Doom and Gloom is a data-driven composition that explores the human cost of Ireland’s economic crash. The piece opens on a conversational montage from Finian’s Rainbow that offers an eerily ironic foreshadowing of the bleak and desolate future looming on the horizon for an Ireland that has lost its “pot of gold”. This discussion soon falls into chaos twisting and contorting as it disintegrates into a shattered ocean of broken and jagged sound fragments. This disintegration takes place at the same rate at which the Central Statistics office measured the decline in the Irish GNP (Gross National Product).
The timbre of the maelstrom transforms as material driven by the Unemployment Rate (Central Statistics Office) arises through the cracks between each sound shard. These new sound shards slowly reintegrate in time with the data contour to resolve in a young man’s discussion of his experience of unemployment in the post-Celtic Tiger years.
The piece is realized using FOG synthesis techniques (an extension of “fonctions d'onde formantique” to sound file granulation) and is intended to highlight the suffering caused by Ireland's economic crash through a mixed methods approach based on the sonification of economic data by compositional techniques.Doom and Gloom is a data-driven composition that explores the human cost of Ireland’s economic crash. The piece opens on a conversational montage from Finian’s Rainbow that offers an eerily ironic foreshadowing of the bleak and desolate future looming on the horizon for an Ireland that has lost its “pot of gold”. This discussion soon falls into chaos twisting and contorting as it disintegrates into a shattered ocean of broken and jagged sound fragments. This disintegration takes place at the same rate at which the Central Statistics office measured the decline in the Irish GNP (Gross National Product).
The timbre of the maelstrom transforms as material driven by the Unemployment Rate (Central Statistics Office) arises through the cracks between each sound shard. These new sound shards slowly reintegrate in time with the data contour to resolve in a young man’s discussion of his experience of unemployment in the post-Celtic Tiger years.
The piece is realized using FOG synthesis techniques (an extension of “fonctions d'onde formantique” to sound file granulation) and is intended to highlight the suffering caused by Ireland's economic crash through a mixed methods approach based on the sonification of economic data by compositional techniques