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        • Passacaglia
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        • Three Gymn O’Paddy’s
        • Rollercoaster
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        • Against Feldman
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        • The Forest of Ornaments
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_‘Manipulations’ (2004) - 10'
(horn (or trombone) 2 perc [drums/vib, woodblock/glock] vn vc db)

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Premiered by the CLAN Ensemble, cond. Bjorn Bantock, with choreography by the London Contemporary Dance School. March 2004,The Place, London.
Excerpt from the live première below
Manipulations (excerpt) by daveflynn

_Programme Poem

I manipulate the notes, take them through the rounds
From trilling crescendos to ethereal sounds
An uneven waltz, as if Satie's in cinders
Harmonics glissandi through cymbal shimmers
The next manipulation swivels and flows
Jazz bass flirts with quirky pizzicato
The drum kit's caressed and the groove kicks in
Trombone farts along to the din
Intensity builds through additive beats
Impudent interruptions confuse the feet
5 turns to 6 turns to 7 turns to 8
Rumba gets raped on a polymetric date
Clocking Woodblock coincides
With Balkanic ornaments in uneven time
Pulsing, mumbling contrabass dance
Morphs into cheeky Baroque sequence
Vibes and Glock chime a lonely tune
It soon disappears, the mischief subsumed
Into dark post-minimal postliminiary chords
The manipulations end.
The end of a War?
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    • COMPOSITIONS
      • Orchestral
        • The Clare Concerto
        • Aontacht
        • Music for the Departed (orchestra)
        • The Mahatma of the Glen
        • The Man from Maghera Rambles Through Africa
        • Echoes of Bamako
        • Mesh
        • An Irish Farrago
        • ‘The Mountain Lark/Tom Doherty’s Reel’
      • Ensemble
        • Joy
        • Le Chéile is in Aonar
        • Stories from the Old World
        • Quirk No.3 'Goss Face'
        • Quirk No.5 'Horrific Spasm'
        • Manipulations
        • Polymetric Cycles
      • Vocal/Choral
        • Mna Brian Boru
        • Protest Song; Chanson de Protestation; Amhrán Agóid; Protesta Cancion
        • Liadain agus Cuirithir
        • Taibhreamh Ó Ríada
        • Full Circle
        • I Have Always Known
        • Two Nonsense Songs
        • Electric Guichair
      • String Quartets
        • No.3 - The Keening
        • No.2 - The Cranning
        • No.1 - Fairground Attractions
      • Guitar
        • An Irish Raga
        • Passacaglia
        • 5to9
        • Rainstorm
        • Four Études for Five Fingers
        • Two Minimalist Etudes
        • Homage Sonatina
        • Three Gymn O’Paddy’s
        • Rollercoaster
      • Guitar Quartets
        • Chimurenga
        • Kora
        • Sebene
        • Against Feldman
        • Errigal Suite
        • Cran Óg
      • Duets/Trios
      • Flute
        • Quirk No.7
        • Toccata for Obama
        • The Forest of Ornaments
        • Ómos do Frankie Kennedy
        • Shadowplay
        • Quirk No.1
      • Violin
        • The Longest Reel (Solo Fiddle)
        • The Valley of the Lunatics
        • Between the Jigs & the Reels
        • Music for the Departed (Trio version)
        • Tar Éis an Caoineadh (Solo violin/fiddle)
        • Tar Eís an Cran
      • Piano
        • 7/11
        • 12 Tone Bach
        • Seven/Eleven
      • Uilleann Pipes
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