Sound Artist: Áine O’Dwyer

Áine O’Dwyer is an artist whose work is concerned by both the conceptual idioms of sound-art and traditional compositional techniques, embracing the broader aesthetics of sound and its relationship to environment, time, audience and structure.

O’Dwyer’s work has been informed by her study of the individual idiosycracies found in each pipe-organ and notably her realisation that each individual organ is meticulously tuned to the measurements of the building in which it is housed, allowing it to connect intimately with its surrounding architecture. Poems for Daedalus (2018), was a series of site-specific performances that O’Dwyer developed in Athens, based on the exploration of a building and its intimacies as well as the surrounding neighbourhood.

Music Reviews:

I would think Áine O’Dwyer’s work is a bit harsh and sharp for me. For instance, in “Music For Church Cleaners”, I would be thinking there is a battle happening. And the pure religious taste is very obvious. I wont think her composition is very mediating, I can smell an intense hustle and bustle in there… And in her other albums, “Locusts” and “Gallarais”, there are a lot of high frequency noises and bells going on, which make me feel a little bit uncomfortable. Apart from that, I still think her works are still inspiring and intriguing, such as the resonance, ether in voices and field recordings, as well as or the visual sketches are very overwhelming… And her composing techniques in harps and flutes are very well done and exotic?