"Found Sound (Lost At Sea) 11.1.11"
at the Crawford Gallery
Mallow artist Danny
McCarthy set to make (sound) waves across the city
Critically acclaimed Mallow sound artist Danny
McCarthy.
Bill Browne
January 04 2022 04:00 PM
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AN installation by multi award-winning Mallow
artist Danny McCarthy, who is widely recognised for his pioneering work in
sound and performance, is set to resonate across the landscape of Cork City.
Entitled ‘Found Sound (Lost at Sea)’ the project,
which will emanate intermittently from a foghorn at Emmet Place outside the
Crawford Art Gallery next Tuesday from 10am-6pm, commemorates the 11th
anniversary of the last foghorn to sound from lighthouses along the Irish coast
on January 11, 2011.
The project was sparked by McCarthy’s fascinating
with acoustic ecology and will serve as a temporary reminder of what was once
“an imperative soundtrack” to daily maritime life.
Danny McCarthy has been a key figure in Cork’s vibrant arts
scene for decades and was one of the very first people in Cork to recognise
sound as an art form and incorporate it into his work.
A graduate of the National College of Art and Design, McCarthy
was a founding director of the National Sculpture Factory in Cork and the
Triskel Arts Centre.
Recognised worldwide for his innovative sound art, using
acoustics, electronics, noise music, audio media, environmental sound and film
in his work, he has exhibited and performed widely both in Ireland and abroad.
He has also curated numerous exhibitions and projects including
‘Sound Out (with David Toop), ‘Bend It Like Beckett’, ‘Sonic Vigil’ and ‘Just
Listen’ and his work has appeared on numerous CD’s and DVD’s, has been
broadcast on radio and TV and his work been the subject of various different
programmes and media articles.
McCarthy and Mick O’Shea founded the Quiet Club, a floating
membership sound (art and electronics) performance group that has performed and
presented works to widespread critical acclaim across Europe, North America,
China and Japan.
In addition to winning numerous national and international
awards over a career spanning more than four-decades, he was honoured with a
Cork Person of the Month award in 2018.
A spokesperson for the Crawford Arts Gallery said they were
delighted to be in a position to mark the 11th anniversary of ‘Found Sound
(Lost at Sea)’ and invited people to stroll by the venue on Tuesday to “hear
the echo of a once ever-present, but now lost, coastal sound.”
They said McCarthy’s work, which has recently purchased by the
gallery and became the first outdoor sound installation to join the National
Collection, is “unique to Crawford Arts Gallery’s context”.
“The Gallery was originally built in 1724 as Cork’s Custom House
and the sound work recalls its ties to the city’s commercial success, since the
eighteenth century, as a key port to the Americas and beyond,” said the
spokesperson.
“ Cork Harbour also lays claim to being one of the largest
natural navigable harbours in the world and, as the city’s motto of ‘Statio
Bene Fida Carinis’ announces, still offers a safe home to seafaring travellers,
tourists, and inter-continental shipping,” they added.
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