Preview: Monday 13th June, 6pm-7.30pm. Performance by Max Eastley, Fergus Kelly, David Lacey, Paul Vogel, 7.30pm.

Temple Bar Gallery and Studios presents 'Volume 2', a week-long series of sonic events in the form of installation, performance, discussion, documentary & listening posts. A central focus of the week is an exhibition by UK sound sculptor Max Eastley.

The first of a series of 'Volume 2' events is Max Eastley's performance with Dublin improvisers Fergus Kelly (invented instruments), David Lacey (percussion/electronics) and Paul Vogel (computer), which will follow the launch party at 7.30pm on Monday 13th June. Next, on Wednesday 15th June at 8pm, the Arts Council England/Channel Four documentary on Max Eastley's work, 'Clocks of the Midnight Hour', will be screened. This rare screening will be preceded by an open-discussion forum on 'Approaches to Improvisation', chaired by Jurgen Simpson, beginning 6.30pm.

Max Eastley's kinetic sound drawings will be exhibited in the main gallery space for the duration of 'Volume 2'. Eastley's well-established art practice combines kinetic sound sculpture and music into an unique art form. Beginning in the late sixties Max Eastley began to investigate the relationship of chance to music using kinetic sound machines or the environmental forces of wind, streams and sea. Consequently his career developed into these various branches of creative and philosophical exploration.

Eastley has exhibited his sound installations internationally and has collaborated with a wide range of artists, musicians and filmmakers, including Brian Eno, Peter Greenaway, Evan Parker, Thomas Köner and Eddie Prévost. After a tour of Japan with David Toop in 1993, the album 'Buried Dreams' was released to critical acclaim. In 2003 Eastley formed part of the Cape Farewell project, a series of expeditions into the Artic, through a route previously icebound but now passable. A new CD with David Toop, 'Doll Creature' was released in 2004. Recent exhibitions include 'Sonic Boom' at the Hayward Gallery and 'Sound as Media' in Tokyo.

On 17th of June at 7.30pm, all three floors of the atrium at Temple Bar Gallery and Studios will become the creative space for a number of Dublin & Cork sound artists and improvisers to interact with the architecture and each other in a way that allows the audience the freedom to move between the various layers of the work, thus creating their own 'mix'.

Other events throughout the week include sound works by Danny McCarthy and Karl Burke, as well as listening posts that will allow the public access to a cross section of sound art (with related information/links) on compilation CDs.

ADMISSION IS FREE. BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL For further information on 'Volume 2' or to make a booking please contact Claire Power t. + 1 671 0073 or claire@templebargallery.com