A Punk Manifesto

A lecture by Brian Irvine (Composer) organised by the Music Composition Centre seminar series.

Music is a bewildering, gorgeous, omnipresent labyrinth with caves of deep golden beauty, terror, lust and hope….a multi-dimensional dream world that connects, illuminates and dismantles…where different versions of ourselves can exist. It is the wildest of all the wild playgrounds with daring, exhilarating rides stretching out as far as the eye can see into the infinite horizon ….a primal wonderland that bubbles with an insatiable yearn to be heard differently.
To journey within it…. is to be punk. To build magnificent things within its arms or its jaws or even to try … is to live the punk life. To upend perceptions, pull down restrictions, to stretch and bend beliefs, to ignite new thinking and excite and embrace the most absurd of inventive thought, to reach across to the other, to make things happen, to start a band only because of will or want or just sheer heart …this is the punk life and this is the punk manifesto.

Belfast born composer Brian Irvine’s unique musical world combines the known and the unknown, the free and the fixed, the schooled and the unschooled. He is driven by a single desire to connect, disrupt, reinvent and re-imagine all aspects of life, people, society, art and understanding in any and as many ways possible.
His prolific output includes operas, film scores, large scale oratorios, orchestral, ensemble, chamber, solo and dance works as well as games and installations. Often combining and layering diverse, experimental and opposing elements his music has been commissioned, broadcast and performed all over the world by a vast array of performers and organisations, including Royal Opera House, Irish National Opera, London Symphony Orchestra, Welsh National Opera, RTE National Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Red Note Ensemble, Ulster Orchestra, Fidelio Trio to name but a few.

Please let us know if you have any access requirements, such as ISL/English interpreting, so that we can facilitate you in attending this event. Contact: rigakie@tcd.ie