BARRY DILLON

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Welcome to the Anodyne Recordings, corner of the virtual world, which is the home of Barry Dillon on the Internet. I am a composer of acousmatic, and electroacoustic sound collages, living in the Burren of Co Clare, Ireland, working  in the areas of Acousmatic / Electroacoustic / Computer Music. My interest in “Recording and Music Technology” was sparked off at a young age while at boarding school where I ended up recording the Folk Group, at Sunday Mass for the “Choir Master”, to review. The step from Recording to Music Technology is a small one. I hold a degree in Electronic Engineering, and spent six months in London, studying "Studio Recording and Production" techniques, following on from this, to a BSc in  Computer Science.
            Barry's primary instrument is the keyboard (synthesizer), closely followed by the computer. I primarily a composer of electroacoustic and acousmatic music for fixed media( audio/date CD), I use both standard and experimental composition methods with the aide of computers, his compositions and creations are realized entirely in the digital realm. This in turn gives me the opportunity to call upon an entirely new sonic pallet. The philosophy adopted to “Sound Design, and Composition” is to work with virtually any recordable sound, be it synthesised from the software or hardware, analog or digital, environmental sounds or natural, traditional or electronic instrumentation, folly sound effects, etc”. The approach adopted blurs and merges the conventional with the abstract.

Artists Statement.

I am a Composer and sound Artist of Acousmatic and Electroacoustic music, living in the Burren region of county Clare, Ireland. The Burren is a unique geographical karst-landscape region , where the landscape is etched bear, barren and denuded, a limestone wilderness.
                       My philosophy to sound design is best articulated in Francis Bacon’s ideals and thoughts on “sound / machines”, in his publication “The New Atlantis” (1627) My thinking on “Sound” is that the nature of the sound and its quality and the context into which the sound is placed, is of equal importance to the attributes of “Pitch and the temporal characteristics” of the piece. There is no such thing as a “Bad Sound”, only a sound unsuitable for a given situation.
                        In the creation of my pieces I use Computers and Audio Software couples with a number of hardware Keyboard (Synthesisers). Adding to this, coupled with techniques developed in the musique Concrete movement, coupled with the facility of being able to manipulate audio samples.  My compositions have been played on the FoldOver show, on WOBC 91.5 FM , Oberlin Conservatory of Music, radio. I have had an entry in the Zeppelin Sound Art festival, Barcelona, Spain, publicly exhibited.  I have a my 27 / 57 entry, podcast on the “Art in Liverpool fm” website, a web site set up to celebrate Liverpool’s European city of culture 2008. I am a winner of the 2007 Arts and Disability forum, award.
                          Composers, Musicians and Artists which have influenced me include, "The sonic journey from Luigi Russolo through to Pierre Schaeffer and Karlheinz Stockhausen and casually moving on from here to Robin Rimbaud (Scanner) and Roger Mills and the good people at furthernoise".

            Facilities available on this site include, 1."Audio Streaming " some examples of my work over the internet, and listen to them on your PC at home.  2."Download" the audio examples to your  PC, 3. Projects I was involved with, get details of up and coming 4. Events. 5. News, and 6. internet Links.  My net label Anodyne Recordings also has a web page here, on the anodyne.ie website. Other web spaces where the work of Barry Dillon and Anodyne Recordings can be found include,
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