Niall de Buitlear – Visual Artist’s Blog

August 21, 2010

Site Gallery’s Online Media Player

Filed under: audio,interviews and articles — Niall @ 2:03 pm

Site Gallery have a new online media player where audio from their archive is available. At the moment it is in Beta with a limited amount of material accessible. They are working on digitising more material from the archive.

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June 4, 2010

Alice Maher on Louise Bourgeois

Filed under: audio,interviews and articles,sculpture — Niall @ 11:48 pm

Here is an interesing podcast of Alice Maher speaking about Louise Bourgeois. The marble sculpture pictured here is Cumulus I from 1969 which is mentioned in the podcast.

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February 10, 2010

The Nerve – Music and the Human Experience

Filed under: audio,documentary,music,radio — Niall @ 1:23 pm

The Nerve – Music and the Human Experience is a six part radio series. The first episode, which dealt with how we perceive music, was played as the lyric feature last Saturday evening.

All of the episodes except the fifth be listened to here (not sure why the fifth isn’t available).

The titles of the episodes are below.

Episode 1: Wired for Sound (Music & the Brain)

Episode 2: In the Key of DNA (Music & Evolution)

Episode 3: The Pipe, the Drum and the Thunder Run (Music & War)

Episode 4: Enchanted, Entranced (Music & Spirituality)

Episode 5: myTunes (Music & Identity)

Episode 6: Sentimental Journey (Music & Emotion)

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January 22, 2010

Katie Holten’s Tree Museum

There’s an article in today’s Irish Times about Katie Holten’s Tree Museum and her upcoming show at the Hugh Lane as a part of the Golden Bough series. The Tree Museum was a public artwork that examined people’s relationships to trees in the Bronx area of New York through an audio guide featuring recordings of local people. Below is a short video about the Tree Museum and the audio recordings are available through her website.

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August 9, 2009

Audio From Moma’s Archives

Filed under: audio — Niall @ 8:15 pm

From AIR, Art International Radio ”an Internet radio station and free online audio archive for cultural programming”.

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April 2, 2009

Steve Reich Piece for Two Pianos Played by One Pianist

Filed under: audio,music,sound art,video,youtube — Niall @ 9:23 am

Peter Aidu plays Steve Reich’s “Piano Phase” (scored for two pianos) with his left hand on one instrument and the right hand on the second.

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July 22, 2008

Bookish on Lyric FM Arts Show

Filed under: Exhibitions,My Work,audio,books,interviews and articles,press — Niall @ 12:33 pm

Matt Packer, the curator of the Lewis Glucksman Gallery, was interviewed about the Bookish exhibition for the RTÉ Lyric FM Arts Show.

It can be listened to online here.

The coverage of Bookish starts at 13 mins 56 second into the show.

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