- Soundscape
- Atmospheric
Poverty of Aspiration by Finbarr Dillon
The piece is about the void in one’s life if one does not have goals and objectives to aspire to and work towards achieving.
Finbarr Dillon is a composer of Electroacoustic and Acousmatic Sound Art, living in the Burren region of Co. Clare, Ireland. He has studied at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) with Dr Donnacha Denahey, Ms Maura McDonnell, and the University of Limerick with Dr Kerry Hagan and Mr Robin Parmar.
Philosophically, he is not averse to manipulating Field Recordings, Audio Samples, and general digital data (Graphics, Protein Sequences, etc.) for the purposes sound creation, upon which he builds his compositions.
While not exclusively, he works predominately in the ‘Digital Domain”, presenting him with the opportunity to call upon a almost infinite sonic palette, afforded by computers allowing for manipulation in both the spectral and temporal domains of the sound.
He derives and gets a lot of the source material and ideas for his compositions from the attributes, parameters and idiosyncrasies of the Natural World. He has used his own MRI brain scans as the source material for a simple additive synthesiser (oscillators) for the Sonification of the images. He has built MIDI sequences using the protein sequence of ‘alpha-Carotene’ and even worked with Seismic recording of the North Clare Earthquake of May 2010, using it as source material for a sound collage composition. He has published and released five Cds and has two different tracks released ion the IFAR label (Institute For Alien Research), as homages to Perrier Henry and Samuel Beckett.
