Welcome! We're very happy you're joining us for the launch of H.I.P.S.T.E.R. The easiest way to follow the day's events is to like our Facebook page (Now and Then Media, Ltd.) as all of the videos will be posted there and will be going live at their scheduled times (but won't be available before). However, you can also click through the links below, and you'll be taken to a new page in YouTube. You can also visit this page to come back to videos and watch them at a later time. Enjoy!
9am–10am
Welcome from Vlad & Yonit
WAVE~LINKS: Early Music
Music, memory, and sacred space: a poetry recitation from Mícheál 'Moley' Ó Súilleabháin’s new book Early Music.
Instrument Exhibit
Medieval Harp: Andrew Lawrence-King
Instrument Exhibit
Medieval flute: Norbert Rodenkirchen
10am–11am
Instrument Exhibit
Medieval Vielle: Michelle L O’Connor
WAVE~LINKS: Off the page, on the page: illustrating medieval music
After two decades of keeping her visual art and musical identities separate, Michelle L O'Connor now combines them in recordings using both music video and illustration to tell epic medieval legends.
PERFORMANCE
Michelle O’Connor & Shira Kammen, vielles
Giunge’l Bel Tempo Jacobo Da Balogna
Instrument Exhibit
Renaissance Flute: Amanda Markwick
Instrument Exhibit
Psaltery: Andrew Lawrence-King
11am–12pm noon
WAVE~LINKS: Time to Breathe
What do song and cider have in common? Bass-baritone and cornettist Jedediah Allen explores connections between musical practice, performance, and the art of fermentation.
Instrument Exhibit
Ottavino: Colin Booth
Instrument Exhibit
A Recently Restored 19th Century Spanish Pianoforte: Antonio Santos García
Instrument Exhibit
Viol: Susanna Pell
12pm–1pm Midday Meditations
WAVE~LINKS: Meditations
Óscar Mascareñas reads from his new book, Meditations on the Poetics of Experience, where he explores broad aspects of daily experience such as sound, light, colour, silence, time, movement, space and memory.
WAVE~LINKS: Silence at the Centre
Anthony O’Brien discusses how making historic string instruments and pottery start from different places, but meet in the silent centre, where use embodies beauty.
WAVE~LINKS: Hevel הבל
An art project created by Yonit Kosovske during the COVID-19 lockdown in the spring of 2020, Hevel is a short silent film exploring original still-life photography inspired by the Baroque "Vanitas" paintings symbolising the ephemerality of life and earthly pleasure.
1pm–2pm
WAVE~LINKS: La Volta and Historical Imagination: Explorations in Historical Dance and Poetry
The metred steps of both dance of poetry inspire historian, writer and dancer Felicity Maxwell to recreate dance and verse from Elizabethan times.
Instrument Exhibit
Baroque Violin: Debbie Diamond
Instrument Exhibit
Baroque Viola: Caitríona O’Mahony
Instrument Exhibit
3 String Bass: Malachy Robinson
2pm–3pm
WAVE~LINKS: A Bow & A Brush
Baroque violinist Ingrid Matthews shares her insights into cross modalities and commonalities between music and painting, harmony and colour.
Instrument Exhibit
Italian Baroque Harp:Andrew Lawrence-King
Instrument Exhibit
Bandora and Chitarra Battente: Eamon Sweeney
Instrument Exhibit
Renaissance Guitar: Eamon Sweeney
PERFORMANCE: Lute Songs
Eamon Sweeney: lute
Vlad Smishkewych: voice
Mr Dowland's Midnight, almain for lute (from the Margaret Board Lute Book, 1625) John Dowland (1563-1626)
Can she excuse my wrongs (First Booke of Songs or Ayres, London, 1597)
3pm–4pm
WAVE~LINKS: Knitting is H.I.P.
Contralto Julie Comparini finds unique threads and historical performance practices which stitch together the art of singing Early Music and knitting.
PERFORMANCE
Yonit Kosovske, harpsichord
Toccata I Libro II by Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583–1643)
Instrument Exhibit
Regal Organ: Aiden Scanlon
Instrument Exhibit
Clavichord: Aiden Scanlon
Instrument Exhibit
Recorder: Theresa Burton
PERFORMANCE
Theresa Burton, recorder
Yonit Kosovske, harpsichord
Sonata I by Giovanni Paolo Cima (ca 1570–1630)
4pm–5pm
WAVE~LINKS: Spirit of a Soundboard
Ted Robertson talks about his creative processes and inspirations as a harpsichord builder and painter.
Instrument Exhibit
1738 Vater Harpsichord: Pauline Mac Sweeney
Instrument Exhibit
Arciorgano: Johannes Keller and Caspar Johannes Walter
Instrument Exhibit
Renaissance Lute: Jacob Heringman
5pm–6pm
WAVE~LINKS: Spinning Breath and Wool
Soprano Rosemary Heredos spins stories with handcrafts and song, plying together music, manuscripts, and wool to breathe new life into the past.
Instrument Exhibit
Historical (Wire-Strung) Irish Harps: Eibhlís Ní Ríordáin
PERFORMANCE
Canzon “La Berlasina” byTarquino Merula (1595–1665)
Theresa Burton, recorder
Yonit Kosovske, harpsichord
PERFORMANCE
Ground on a Scotch Humour by Nicola Matteis (fl. ca1670–after 1713)
Theresa Burton, recorder
Yonit Kosovske, harpsichord
Instrument Exhibit
Medieval Bagpipes: Carlos Núñez
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7pm–8pm
WAVE~LINKS: Focus Finder Fantasias
Flute player and photographer Miriam Kaczor reflects on finding expression through aperture and embouchure.
Instrument Exhibit
Early Harps: Maura Ó Cróinín
Instrument Exhibit
Sackbut: Stephanie Muncey-Dyer
Instrument Exhibit
Spanish Baroque Harp: Andrew Lawrence-King
8pm–9pm
WAVE~LINKS: In Translation: Shared Languages in Music and Art
Pilar Almalé describes how musicking and making art share a language of metaphor and meaning.
Instrument Exhibit
Medieval Fipple Flutes: Jacopo Bisagni
Renaissance Harp: Andrew Lawrence-King
Instrument Exhibit
Baroque Guitar: Eamon Sweeney
PERFORMANCE
Eamon Sweeney, baroque guitar
Guárdame las vacas, Luys de Narváez
PERFORMANCE
Eamon Sweeney, baroque guitar
Canarios, Gaspar Sanz
9pm–10pm
A Light in the Dark Sky: Early Music around the Campfire
WAVE~LINKS: Sound and Light
Teddie Hwang shares her insights into how music and photography offer wisdom that reveals the essence of the other.
WAVE~LINKS: Comet NEOWISE
Time lapse of Comet NEOWISE setting by photographer Jeremy Evans with music performed by Teddie Hwang, traverso.
FINAL PERFORMANCE
La Cerca (The Quest)
Mario Papini, lute