The audience of Another Green World at Comfort Carnival, photo by Simon Lazewski
Another Green World: Talks on Music, Community, Time and Hope @ Comfort Carnival / Dublin Fringe Festival
Club Comfort invited me to programme talks at their Carnival on 7th September 2019.
INTRO (8 mins)
DENNIS MCNULTY - We Dream in Actions (13 mins)
KATE BUTLER - 20HZ: Music in context and non-sectarian rave in Northern Ireland (13mins)
LÆTITIA DEERING - Memories of the Future (20 mins)
Screening: MARK LECKEY’S Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore, 1999 (with thanks to the artist and Cabinet, London, and Alice Butler of Aemi)
September 2019
Lætitia, Kate and Dennis by Simon Lazewski
Speaker bios:
In 1994, as Decal, Dennis McNulty and Alan O’Boyle released Ireland’s first electronic album of the rave era: Ultramack 004. Decal became key to the DIY electronic music scene in Dublin, producing an extensive catalogue of albums and 12” records, as well as fostering and promoting other local producers, particularly through their Phunk City night at the Funnel (1997-99). Dennis went on to work as an artist, with recent projects including Everything is Somewhere Else (Paper Visual Art, 2020), TTOPOLOGY at Visual (Carlow, Ireland, 2018) and Grazer Kunstverein (Graz, Austria, 2018) and anginging at Assembly Point (London, UK, 2018). He has scored a number of feature-length documentaries, including Seaview (2007), Pyjama Girls (2010) and Build Something Modern (2011). He is artist in residence at CONNECT, Ireland's research centre for future networks and communications, and is currently developing a gestural sequencer for Eurorack-format modular synth systems. The Douglas Hyde Gallery (Dublin) screened We Dream in Actions in September 2020.
Originally from Dublin, Lætitia has been at the centre of the international electronic music world for the past ten years. Working at Phonica Records in London between 2010 and 2016 – a vinyl dance music shop renowned for its friendly, expert staff – Lætitia was also DJing and promoting. In 2013, she set up Annex Agency with two partners, a booking agency for DJs and musicians, which she now runs from Dublin. Joining the Dublin Digital Radio (ddr) roster in early 2018 with her www show, she is contributing heavily to the local scene: www provides support to womxn interested in electronic music, giving them opportunities to play on ddr and also providing IRL forums for them to meet and share experiences, information and supports. In March 2019, www collaborated with the Gash collective, which also promotes diversity in the electronic music scene, with workshops, discussions and a gig at the Electric nightclub in Galway.
Dennis McNulty performing We Dream in Actions
Reading/Viewing List
• Brown, DeForrest, Jr. - The Complicated Staging of Experimental Music in Art Spaces (Hyperallergic 2019)
• Butler, Kate - D1: Keeping Dublin Time Space Continuum (D1 / RTE Culture 2019)
• Butler Kate & the Golden Maverick - The Funnel Generation: Irish electronic music 1994-2009 (Shock World Service / RTE Culture, 2019)
• Derrida, Jacques - Spectres of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning and the New International (Routledge, 1993)
• Eshun, Kodwo - More Brilliant Than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction (1998); Further Considerations on Afrofuturism (CR: The New Centennial Review, Summer 2003); Also see the Otolith Group
• Finlayson, Angus - The changing economics of dance music part 1 (Resident Advisor, 2019)
• Fell, Mark - Collateral Damage (Wire, 2013)
• Fisher, Mark - Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Zero Books, 2009) The Metaphysics of Crackle: Afrofuturism and Hauntology (Dancecult, 2013); Break It Down: Mark Fisher on DJ Rashad’s Double Cup (Electronic Beats, 2013); Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures (Zero Books, 2014)
• Gannon, Colin - Five years on: The enduring brilliance of DJ Rashad’s Double Cup (Dummy Mag, 2018)
• Gilbert, Jeremy - The Hardcore Continuum? (Dancecult, 2009)
• Gilroy Ware, Marcus - Enter the Void: Emotion, Capitalism & Social Media (Repeater, 2017)
• Goodman, Steve - Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear (Technologies of Lived Abstraction) (MIT, 2009); Editor with Heys, Toby & Ikoniadou, Eleni AUDINT, Unsound:Undead (Urbanomic, 2019)
• hooks, bell - All About Love: New Visions (Harper, 2000); Salvation: Black People and Love (Harper, 2001); Communion: The Female Search for Love (William Morrow, 2002)
• McCarthy, Jesse - Notes on Trap: A world where everything is always dripping (N+1, 2018)
• McNulty, Dennis & Maybury, Peter - Underground (Arts Council / Road Records, 2008)
• Pelly, Liz – In the Age of Lean-Back Listening, Does Spotify have Neocolonial Ambitions? (Frieze, 2018)
• Phelan, Sharon - “Mic Check” Mic Check!” Echoes and resonances in the acoustic community (Theatrum Mundi, 2019)
• Plant, Sadie - Digital Women and the New Technoculture (Harper Collins, 1998)
• Reynolds, Simon - Energy Flash (Faber & Faber, 1998); Review of Traxman ‘The Mind of Traxman (Planet Mu) (Spin, 2012); Retromania: Pop Culture’s Addiction to its Own Past (2012); Conceptronica (Pitchfork, 2019)
• Samuels, A.J. - Sound in Motion: Style Skating, Civil Rights and the Evolution of Rink Music (1); New York City – Disco, Boogie and Beyond: Danny Krivit (2); Style skating and James Brown remix culture in Chicago: ShaProStyle(3); From the rink to the dancefloor: DJ Spinn & RP Boo (4) (Electronic Beats, 2015)
• Szatan, Gabriel - Hyperdub: Another Future is Possible (DJ Mag, 2019)
Documentaries, lectures and art works
• Akomfrah, John (dir.) Last Angel of History (1996)
• Deller, Jeremy Everybody in the Place: An Incomplete History of Britain (2019)
• Eno, Brian, John Peel Lecture: The Ecology of Culture (2015)
• Eshun, Kodwo Mark Fisher Memorial Lecture (2018)
• Holland, Susan (dir.) Ireland’s Jungle (c.2001)
• Leckey, Mark Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (1999)
• Lee, Iara (dir.) Modulations (1998)
• Redmond, James (dir.) Notes on Rave in Dublin (2017)
• Rennicks, Stephen Last Night of Phunk City (1999)