"Chamber Music(One Hundred Urinations For James Joyce)"

 

BLOOMSDAY Dublin Ireland

A new sound installation marking the centenary of the publication of Ulysses by James Joyce entitled “Chamber Music(One Hundred Urinations For James Joyce)” by Danny McCarthy will take place in Unit 44 (Kirkos), Stonybatter Dublin7 on June 16^th (Bloomsday) 11am -5pm. A limited edition 7” picture disc vinyl will be available on the day at the venue. Enquiries soundworksunlimited@gmail.com or www.soundoutin.blogspot.com

Evening concert “Joyce(Re)Fluxus” will follow at 8pm curated by Danny McCarthy and Sebastian Adams.

When Leopold Bloom in James Joyce’s novel Ulysses compared the sound of Molly urinating in a chamber pot to music it sparked the idea for the artist Danny McCarty to create the installation “Chamber Music (One Hundred Urinations For James Joyce)” and what more fitting time than the centenary of the publication of the book.

 McCarthy is no stranger to Joyce having had his first exhibition entitled “Who Killed James Joyce ?” followed by several other works on Joyce including the ongoing work “ One Hundred Bottles For James Joyce” where he deposited one hundred specially designed bottles each containing a note into the river Liffey in 1982 asking the finders to reply to him stating when and where they found the bottle. Another work by him “Walls Have hEars p433” occupied three floors of the stairwell in the Crawford Gallery, Cork to mark the centenary of Joyce.

This new work marks the centenary of the publication of Ulysses in a unique way both visually and sonically where the artist has composed the sounds of urination into a sonic opera that occupies the space it is installed in whilst constantly changing all the time thus never sounding the same at any one time. Echoing the experience of reading and rereading Ulysses and finding something new every time one reads the book.