Friday 5 July, 1pm. Free, no booking required. All welcome.
Formed in 2006, The Quiet Club (Danny McCarthy & Mick O’Shea) have met with considerable success and have become recognised as one of Ireland’s leading sound art improvisation groups. They have toured extensively in Ireland and have played at festivals in UK, Germany, Poland, Canada, China, USA and Japan. Recently they appeared at World Expo (Shanghai), Static (Liverpool) and I & E Festival, (Dublin), Mobius (Boston), Harvestworks (New York) and Black Iris Gallery (Richmond, Virginia). They frequently play together with guests, which in the past have included Mark Wastell, Stephen Vitiello, Mel Mercier, Steve Roden, Jed Spear, John Godfrey, Harry Moore, Iarla O’Lionard , David Toop and many others.
The Quiet Club continue to push the boundaries of sound making and listening by employing a wide range of sound making devices ranging from stones, homemade instruments, electronics, amplified textures, Theremins, field recordings, etc. Their first CD Tesla was released on Farpoint Recordings (www.farpointrecording.com) and is now a collectors item. A track of theirs appeared on WIRETAPPER 23 the compilation that accompanies the WIRE magazine and their work was featured in a recent article in the magazine. They regularly appeared on Bernard Clarke’s radio programme NOVA on Lyric FM. A major exhibition ‘Strange Attractor’ featuring their work took place in the Crawford Gallery Cork in April 2011. A book and DVD of this work was launched and they made two London appearances to co-inside with the launch at the Pigeon Wing Galley and the renown Café Oto, also 2011. An e-book of their American tour is also available from Farpoint.
In 2016 they were awarded a major funded residency by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation to spend two months in the Rauschenberg Foundation Studio’s in Captiva, Florida. Whilst there they recorded their new CD “No Meat No Bone” which has just been released by Farpoint Recordings. The new CD comes in a 7” gatefold cover which also contains especially written texts and photographs. It comes in a strictly limited edition of 147 signed and numbered copies.
Early in 2017 the took part in an extensive Irish tour funded by Music Network where they appeared alongside the duo crOw (Ian Wilson and Cathal Roche) as a follow up to their release “as the quiet crow flies” also available from Farpoint Recordings.
A CD (limited edition) entitled ‘Black Iris’ has been released by Farpoint Recordings. This is a recording of a live concert they did with Stephen Vitiello in the Black Iris Gallery and Studios in Richmond, Virginia.
A CD of “The Telepathic Lockdown Tapes” was released on the Taku Roku Label by Café Oto in 2020 and an installation featuring sound from that release featured in Lismore Castle Arts in their Summer show. A cassette and downloads of the complete ‘The Telepathic Lockdown Tapes’ was released by Farpoint Recordings.
NOTE The Telepathic Lockdown Tapes came about during lockdown when the artists could not meet in person. They arranged to each improvise and record in their own studios at a set time on a set day for twenty minutes each being aware that the other was playing at the same time but unable to see or hear each other. These recordings were then put together unedited to form the tapes.
“The brilliance of the Quiet Club, the Cork-based ‘entity’ of Danny McCarthy and Mick O’Shea, is best apprehended live. Their CD, Tesla, is fascinating and enjoyable, but all the more so after watching their performance at the Goethe Institute in Dublin” Seán Ó Máille Journal of MusicVol. 1 No. 2