Free Space: 'A River In-between', Ormond Art Studios Talk Series
08 — 29 March 2025, Saturdays, 2pm
Ormond Art Studios hosts A River In-between talk series as part of Free Space at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios.
Listening Session: Tuam Na Farraige
04 March 2025, 5:45–8:30pm
Join Liliane Puthod in her studio alonsgide collaborators Metaxu, Jenn, Thom Dehli, Asa Nisi Masa, and Ingrid Lyons for the launch of Tuam Na Farraige.
Doors close at 6pm sharp. Free. No booking required: first come, first served.
This immersive listening session is the continuation/materialisation of CKD* Completely Knocked Down, an event which took place at Dublin Port, October 2024 with Metaxu, Jenn, Thom Dehli, Asa Nisi Masa, Ingrid Lyons as part of Liliane Puthod’s solo exhibition Beep Beep.
During this sonic and visual experience taking place in the artist’s studio, you will be the first to hear the limited edition of Tuam Na Farraige cassette tape which will be available for purchase on site.
Please note: Access through the side door on Fownes St Lower.
Schedule
5:45–6:00pm | Doors open (side entrance)
6:15–7:00pm | Side A listening session (45min)
7:00–7:15pm | Interval (Doors open)
7:30–8:15pm | Side B listening session (45min)
8:30pm | End of event
Important note: You can either attend both sessions or pick one. There is strictly no admission after 6pm for the first listening session. A second round of entry for the second session will take place during the interval at 7pm.
Tuam Na Farraige
Tuam Na Farraige is a collaboration between five of us musicians, producers, writers and visual artists as METAXU.
We are wandering the roads less traveled where peripheral sonic and visual experiences, fragments of modernity and tradition merge or diverge. This electronic and folk music soundscape represents a journey through waking life and the realm of dreams. There are moments of hyper vigilance and focus, hedonism, abandon, rising epiphany and quiet reverie. Blending compositions, field recordings, live gig performances, traditional fiddle tunes and spoken word we unearth common ground after solitary meanderings. Streams of consciousness flow creating a sonically expansive and spacious pool where melodies and words rise to pass. The title, Tuam Na Farraige, is borrowed from a tune composed by 19th century fiddle player John Mhósaí McGinley of Glencolmcille. It’s a beautiful descriptive piece where music surfaces in response to the sound of the Atlantic and finds expression in the first awake moment.
This iteration of METAXU includes:
Jenn | words, synth, tin whistle, production, composition
Thom Dehli | drums, production, composition
Asa Nisi Masa | guitar
Ingrid Lyons | words, zither, fiddle, composition
Liliane Puthod | installation, limited edition object/tape design, production
Tape duplication by Copy Smith. Limited edition of 50 tapes.
Tuam Na Farraige was produced as part of Liliane Puthod’s exhibition Beep Beep curated and produced by Temple Bar Gallery and Studios for off-site exhibitions at Dublin Port, June–October 2024. Beep Beep was supported by the Arts Council of Ireland Project Award.