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18 Sep 2025

Nomos | O’Riada Reimagined

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When

18 Sep 2025

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8.30pm start time | doors open from 8pm 

Live performance of EP

Sean O'Riada (1931-71) built the foundations of Irish art music by extending traditional music via both classical and folk music. Ordnance Survey’s Nomos: O'Riada Reimagined (2022) uses technology to achieve such aims within electronic music. Using compositional processes within the field of Spectral Music, where musical decisions are informed by the mathematical analysis of sounds, a piece of software called a spectrogram was used and this allowed for sounds to be viewed as individual samples. Information from these samples were then used as the basis in forming the material for the album. Pedal Steel guitarist David Murphy was invited into the studio to collaborate and add to the recordings. Nomos: O'Riada Reimagined used such approaches, as O’Riada quotes in ‘Our Musical Heritage’, as ‘a creative contributor to the tradition’. Much the same way O’Riada attempted to add and extend toward the canon of traditional music, it is hoped that this variation adds to the language of electronic music in Ireland now and into the future.

Ordnance Survey - Bio Electronic music producer Neil O ‘Connor has been making electronic music for the past 25 years and has released over 20 albums and EPs. Ordnance Survey is drone and ambient collaborative project and attempts to fuse the worlds of electronica, new music, jazz, improvisation with modular synthesizers and live electronics. Relative Phase (2019) featured collaborations from Sean Mac Erlaine, Linda Buckley, Kate Ellis, John Mc Entire (Tortoise) while Ampere (2020) featured Donal Lunny and Cormac MacDiarmada (Lankum). Field Work (2021) was completed during lockdown and featured field recordings made in and around Dublin. Nomos: O’Riada Reimagined (2022), is a reworking of O’Riada’s work for electronics and pedal steel by David Murphy. Turas (2023) was recorded at sites of and inside neolithic tombs around Ireland and features contributions from Roger Doyle and Garreth Quinn Redmond and Biofeedback Suite (2025) features contributions from Iarla O’Lionard and Colm O'Ciosoig (My Bloody Valentine).

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