The Contemporary Music Centre

08/06/2026

Coming up this Friday & Saturday at Cork Midsummer Festival🎉
👉Tickets & info: https://buff.ly/iJl5qRD

'Stimphony' explores the music within stimming bodies and asks: What does somatic regulation sound like? How do our bodies and brains manage the constant sensory input of our world?

Co-created with disabled adults in Cork and the Inclusive Music Ensemble, 'Stimphony' is a new theatrical-symphonic engagement with Neurodivergent experiences through movements inspired by body-memory, emotional regulation and personal growth.

💫 Cast & Creative Team:

Directed by Al Bellamy.
Musical Direction by Aoife King.
Composition and Music by Aoife King and the Inclusive Music Ensemble - David O’Gorman, Zoe Shannon-Crowley, Aoife O' Sullivan, Olivia Marshall, Nicola Leonard, Sarah Lynch, David Donovan, Nico Sarmiento, Daithi Quirke, Luke Bowen Murphy, Ivan Geran, Mary Murphy, Sadhbh O’Callaghan, Niamh Cafferky, Martin Dineen, Orianna Doyle, Kaoivín O’Sullivan, Brian McDonnell, Catriona Murphy, Anna Smith, Eoin Nash, Andrew Ingamells and Hugh McCarthy.

Performers: BenÓg Brady-Bates, Ruby Hardie-Brown, Fergus Hegarty, and Sarah Lynch Dramaturgy and Creative Enabling by Eleanor Walsh.
Devised by BenÓg Brady-Bates, Ruby Hardie-Brown, Fergus Hegarty, Sarah Lynch, Al Bellamy, Eleanor Walsh and Aoife King.
Movement Direction and Choreography by Inma Pavon.
Lighting Design by Eoin Winning.
Set and Costume Design by Olan Wrynn.
Stage and Production Management by Bethany Cosgrove.
Creative Captioning and AV Design by Eoin Ó hAnnracháin.
Produced by Eoin Ó hAnnracháin.
Executive Produced by Susan Holland.
Irish Sign Language Interpreter Ela Cichocka.

05/06/2026

New amplify episode out now 🎧️

We're back with a live showcase recording from NMDX 2026, featuring mixed-media composer Anna Murray. Anna presents INK, a new live painting and electronics project that combines gestures and textures in both the sonic and visual realm. Anna tells us more about her practice in an interview with CMC's Jonathan Grimes.

Listen to episode #132 wherever you get your podcasts or visit CMC: https://buff.ly/HOACWNV

📺️ Watch a live recording of Anna's performance on CMC's Youtube channel: https://buff.ly/qMONZR8

NMDX is made possible through the generous support of Culture Ireland, with additional funding provided by New Music Dublin. CMC would also like to thank IMRO Ireland for their support of the showcase performances and for hosting the programme.

04/06/2026

⚡️ Metronome presents Dublin Modular, Wednesday 24th June at the National Concert Hall.

Join Dublin Modular for an evening listening session where modular and hardware electronics fuse with acoustic instrumentation. Curated as a celebration of q***r identity, experimentation, and collaboration, this event brings together some of Ireland’s most exciting electro-acoustic artists. Expect performances to blur genres, sounds and worlds.

💫 Featured Artists:

Folding Waves is an international award-winning creative audio studio, comprising a small team of sound designers, composers and mix engineers, united by their shared enthusiasm for the symbiotic relationship between sound and moving image. Folding Waves will be performing alongside multidisciplinary artist, designer and musician Genevieve Howard.

Tadhg Kinsella is a q***r Dublin-based sound artist, whose work blends acoustic performance with experimental electronic practices.�Specialising in modular synthesis, haptic sound devices, and percussion elements, Tadhg’s practice also spans contemporary sound art, and immersive installation. Tadhg was a CMC Emerging Artist for 2024-2025.

Sonia Killmann is an international saxophone player and electronic musician. They have performed across the UK and Europe and are collaborating closely with Cryptic Glasgow as a Cryptic artist, working in immersive installations and audiovisual performance.

🔗 Find out more & book tickets at https://buff.ly/SszeHgs

03/06/2026

⏪️ 💫 Looking back on the West Wicklow Festival Rising Stars concert featuring the world premiere performance of CMC Emerging Artist 2026-28 Harry O'Connor's ‘Three Old Irish Miniatures’, brought to life by mezzo-soprano Hayley M**h and pianist Georgina Cassidy.

Harry's ‘Three Old Irish Miniatures’, was the winning work in West Wicklow Festival and CMC Ireland's emerging composer composition competition. The composer was interviewed on-stage by CMC's Garrett Sholdice as part of the concert, sharing an insight into this piece and his broader artistic practice.

Huge congratulations once again to Harry O'Connor, and to Rising Star performers mezzo-soprano Hayley M**h, violist Eve Quigley, and pianist Georgina Cassidy who gave a stunning recital in Wicklow 🙌✨

📸 Photos by .photography

03/06/2026

Dublin Sound Lab has announced that the 2026-2027 Music Current Commission has been awarded to Italian composer and multimedia artist Massimiliano Vizzini.

Massimiliano will write a new work for flute, bass clarinet, electric guitar, and percussion, with integrated video and electronics. The piece will be performed at Music Current Festival in 2027.

Read more: https://www.cmc.ie/news/06032026-1041/massimiliano-vizzini-awarded-music-current-commission-2026-27

03/06/2026

📻 Tune in to hear composer Jane O'Leary on Galway Talks on Galway Bay FM this morning, discussing her recent election as an honorary member of the ISCM - the first Irish composer to receive this significant title:

Galway Talks is a mix of current affairs, human interest stories, entertainment and even some live music thrown in for good measure. From local and national pol...

03/06/2026

🔗 Rizodencies 2026: Scores
👉 A 28-day residency in animated graphic notation and networked scores
🗓️ 1–28 September 2026
📍 Zavod Rizoma, Čermožiše, Haloze, Slovenia

Rizodencies 2026: Scores is a funded residency for four sound artists, composers, improvisers or performers to work intensively with Oscilla — an open-source framework for animated graphic scores — under the mentorship of its creator, Rob Canning.

Over 28 days, residents will explore the rhizome as a compositional principle: creating networked scores that branch, loop and interconnect rather than proceeding from beginning to end.

There is space for both individual projects and collaborative work — ensemble sessions emerge organically as residents discover shared interests. The residency culminates in a public concert in Maribor.

Find out more & apply: https://rizom.si/residencies/rizodencies-2026/

Open call for a 28-day funded residency in animated graphic notation and networked scores at Zavod Rizoma, Slovenia, 1–28 September 2026.

29/05/2026

Warm congratulations to composer Caterina Schembri on last night's performance of 'Ode to Psyche', selected by the ISCM World New Music Days Festival to represent the Irish Section this year in Romania 🎉

This piece was performed by Corul Madrigal, conducted by Anna Ungureanu at the beautiful Sala Radio in Bucharest. The concert included guest performers from the CANTUS MUNDI National Program and percussionist Robert Nițu, featuring original contemporary works from Spain, the Netherlands, Austria, USA, Romania, Slovakia, China, Estonia and Hungary. Bravo artists 👏

CMC was delighted to attend and to hear Caterina's piece, which was first composed for Chamber Choir Ireland as part of Choral Sketches 2024-25, an artist development programme delivered by CMC Ireland and Chamber Choir Ireland.

Caterina Schembri’s participation at the ISCM World New Music Days Festival in Romania is kindly supported by Culture Ireland.


ISCM Romanian Section

28/05/2026

💫👏 Jane O'Leary - the first Irish composer to be elected an honorary member of the ISCM!

Read more: https://tinyurl.com/yau2jftf

Jane was elected this week at the ISCM General Assembly held at World New Music Days Festival in Bucharest, following her nomination by the Contemporary Music Centre - the ISCM Irish Section.

The title of honorary membership is given by the ISCM to recognise a person's internationally remarkable achievements in the field of contemporary music.

Jane joins a group of widely renowned composers including Arvo Pärt, Maurice Ravel, Kaija Saariaho, Tōru Takemitsu and Jane’s former Professor at Princeton University, Milton Babbitt. Our congratulations to Romanian composer Doina Rotaru who was also awarded ISCM honorary membership in 2026!

📸 Jane O'Leary. Photo by CMC.

28/05/2026

⏰ A little over 24 hours left to submit proposals for the Fingal Voices Choral Commission & Residency Opportunity!

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