durhamintone

[durhamintone]

INTONE - Ailís Ní Ríain & Nicola Dale

[durhamintone]

[durhamintone]

Ailís Ní Ríain - Composer & Writer & Nicola Dale - Visual Artist

[durhamintone]

INTONE opened today - 5th July 2013 - in Durham city centre and will run each weekend (Fri-Sun) until 21st July. 

The piece combines Ailís Ní Ríain’s new music composed for trumpet, performed by Brendan Ball, of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra with a set of her poems inspired by portraits of the Prince Bishops. These same portraits were also the point of departure for Dale’s sculptural works which re-imagine the Prince Bishops’ robes – such a potent public symbol of their power – as a delicate almost skeletal framework upon which their worries and insecurities might more readily hang.

"This plumage

Is magnificent

It inflates me

Every which way.

It is impossible

Not to fill corridors

In these garments."

Click the Festival link for more information on venue and opening times. 

http://www.brassfestival.co.uk/events/intone-by-ailis-ni-riain-nicola-dale/

INTONE is fully accessible. The entrance to the space is just off the street and there are no steps. 

[durhamintone]

“Everything is what it is and not another thing.” Joseph Butler Prince Bishop of Durham 1750-1752

Taking the unusual power of the crown and the cloak wielded by the Prince Bishops of Durham as their starting point, Ní Ríain and Dale present INTONE, an installation piece comprising music, poetry and sculpture. The work reflects on the powerful public roles these men held and considers the imagined private world of worry that permeates the minds of men of faith who have had political responsibility thrust upon them.

[durhamintone]

5 - 21 July as part of Durham International Brass Festival

http://www.brassfestival.co.uk/events/intone-by-ailis-ni-riain-nicola-dale/

[durhamintone]

[durhamintone]

Short extract from INTONE Composed by Ailís Ní Ríain (2013)

Trumpet - Brendan Ball, Co-Principal Trumpet

The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.

[durhamintone]

Edward Chandler, Prince Bishop of Durham 1730-1750

From 1075, the Prince Bishops were given powers enabling them to: hold their own parliament, raise their own armies, appoint sheriffs and Justices, administer their own laws, levy taxes and customs duties, create fairs and markets, issue charters, salvage shipwrecks, collect revenue from mines, administer the forests and mint their own coins. Indeed the Prince Bishops lived like kings in their ‘palaces’ in Durham City and Bishop Auckland.

[durhamintone]

Work in progress by visual artist Nicola Dale