Last week I had the great pleasure of performing with Nadar at the Dublin Sound Lab’s cool festival Music Current. On the program was Thiery De Mey’s great Light Music. Back in 2021, the incredible computer scientists at Centre Henri Pousseur recreated De Mey’s electronics and since then we have had the chance to play it in several new venues. This most recent performance was reviewed by Adrian Smith:

“Technology was very much a feature of Thierry De Mey’s Light Music (2004, rev. 2021) for conductor and technician that utilised wifi sensors to ‘paint light and sound’. The Nadar Ensemble’s trombonist Thomas Moore assumed the role of a conductor, standing in relative darkness with a beam of light crossing the stage in front of him. When Moore moved his hands into the path of the beam they gave the impression of being independent of his body, flame-like and dancing in sync with sounds from an accompanying tape track. Later in the piece, these movements were visualised on the screen to paint the sound into a series of abstract images. The performance was a tour de force of concentration and accuracy from Moore and again demonstrated the effective integration of music and technology.”

https://journalofmusic.com/reviews/importance-ensembles-new-music-scene