A very special concert takes place in the Boole Liberary UCC on the 25^th June at 7pm when The ecial occasion they will be joined by acclaimed dance/movement artist Sophie Hutchinson and percussionist Solamh Kelly. At this unique event the artists will be dispersed throughout the audience making it a very special one of a kind occasion not to be missed. There recent performance at HearSay Audio Arts Festival was one of the highlights of the festival.

 

The Quiet Club ( Mick O’Shea and Danny McCarthy)

Formed in 2006, the Quiet Club are celebrating twenty years together. They have met with considerable success and have become recognised as Ireland’s leading sound art improvisation group. They have toured extensively in Ireland and have played at festivals in UK, Germany, Poland, Canada, China , USA and Japan. They appeared at World Expo (Shanghai), Static (Liverpool) and I & E Festival, (Dublin), Mobius (Boston) and Harvestworks (New York), Black Iris Gallery, Richmond, Virginia. They took part in an extensive tour to USA last year. They frequently play together with guests, which in the past have included Pauline Oliveros, Mark Wastell, Stephen Vitiello, Mel Mercier, Steve Roden, Viv Corringham, Irene Murphy, Jed Spear, John Godfrey, Harry Moore, Iarla O’Lionard , David Toop, Nicholas Collins and many others. They have played and presented work in Café Oto London, Harvest Works (Broadway NYC), Waterworks, Boston and several other prestigious venues. 
The Quiet Club continue to push the boundaries of sound making and listening by employing a wide range of sound making devices ranging from stones, homemade instruments, electronics, amplified textures, turntables, theremins, field recordings, etc. Their first CD Tesla was released on Farpoint Recordings (www.farpointrecording.com) and is now a collector’s item. A track of theirs appeared on WIRETAPPER 23 the compilation that accompanies the WIRE magazine and their work was featured in an article in the magazine. They regularly appeared on Bernard Clarke’s radio programme NOVA on Lyric FM and more recently on “The Blue Of The Night” also Lyric FM. A major exhibition “ Strange Attractor” featuring their work took place in the Crawford Gallery Cork in April 2011.A book and DVD of this work was launched in 2013 and they made two London appearances to co-inside with the launch at the Pigeon Wing Galley and the renown Café Oto. An e book of their American tour is also available from Farpoint.

In 2016 they were awarded a major funded residency by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation to spend two months in the Rauschenberg Foundation Studio’s in Captiva, Florida. Whilst there they recorded their CD “No Meat No Bone” which was been released by Farpoint Recordings. The CD comes in a 7” gatefold cover which also contains especially written texts and photographs. It comes in a strictly limited edition of 147 signed and numbered copies.

Early in 2017 the took part in an extensive Irish tour funded by Music Network where they appeared alongside the duo crOw (Ian Wilson and Cathal Roche) as a follow up to their release “as the quiet crow flies” also available from Farpoint.

A  CD (limited edition) entitled “Black Iris” has been released on Farpoint. This is a recording of a live concert they did with Stephen Vitiello in the Black Iris Gallery and Studios in Richmond, Virginia.

A CD  of “The Telepathic Lockdown Tapes” was released on the Taku Roku Label by Café Oto in 2021 and an installation featuring sound from that release featured in Lismore Castle Arts in their Summer show. A cassette and downloads of the complete “ The Telepathic Lockdown Tapes” has  been released by Farpoint Recordings on cassette and download.

They have performed at numerous concerts during 2025 including Sirius Arts Centre, Plugd Records, The Guesthouse, UCC Music Dept., and most notably organised “Site Of Sound” a hugely successful event incorporating dance and movement in St Coleman’s Cathedral Cloyne. They engaged in the creation sound/music for a new production “Begin Anywhere” by Irish Modern Dance Company which premiered in the Irish Arts Centre New York in Feb 2025 and then toured around Ireland including four nights in the Project Arts Centre Dublin. They appeared on “An Irish Almanac Of Noise and Experimental Music” on NYAAH Records in 2025 and in 2026 Farpoint have just released a limited edition clear vinyl of “Live At The Quay Co Op”.

NOTE The Telepathic Lockdown Tapes came about during the Covid lockdown when the artists could not meet in person. They arranged to each improvise and record in their own studios at a set time on a set day for twenty minutes each being aware that the other was playing at the same time but unable to see or hear each other. These recordings were then put together unedited to form the tapes.

“The brilliance of the Quiet Club, the Cork-based 'entity' of  Danny McCarthy and Mick O'Shea, is best apprehended live. Their CD, Tesla, is fascinating and enjoyable, but all the more so after watching their performance at the Goethe Institute in Dublin” Seán Ó Máille Journal of Music Vol. 1 No. 2