Dreamcycles and Sean Being present
SHUTTERSTOCK PRESENCE: a voyage through stock music
7.15pm - Monday September 13
The Douglas Hyde is delighted to present the second of a new series of Music Sessions with an emphasis on artistic practices that blur and break traditional genre boundaries through music. The programme supports and commissions new work, inviting artists to create new and fun engagements through music.
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A musical tradition unique to neoliberalism, stock music relies on ‘music contributors’ creating royalty-free products that are submitted, reviewed, and sold to online archives, with a view to soundtracking commercial time and space. Despite being trapped and reduced to a corporate kernel, this music has glimmers of life lying dormant within its stems.
For this collaborative performance, the two artists share excavated material from the stems of the Shutterstock Music archive—rebuilt and rearranged for non-commercial settings. The performance integrates songs and values of the Irish oral musical tradition—where shared experience birthed and carried the music—in an attempt to recover from Shutterstock traces of social vitality.
This is the second performance in the SHUTTERSTOCK project, following on from Galeria Zé dos Bois, Lisbon in June 2021.
