Wednesday 29 April 2026, 7.30pm
Having performed together recently for the first time as part of a four piece at IMMA in Dublin, Áine O'Dwyer, Natalia Beylis & Willie Stewart are excited to now come together as a trio and seek their way back to a shared space that floats between sweetness and noise. Using harp, percussion, objects, piano, tapes & misc, they are excited to see what unfolds in this one off improvisation.
Opening the evening will be Vivienne Griffin.
Áine O’Dwyer is a multi-disciplinary artist, a musician, composer and performer whose work is informed by both the conceptual concerns of sound-art and traditional compositional techniques, embracing the broader aesthetics of sound and its relationship to environment, time, audience and architecture. She has created works internationally for large-scale and intimate settings which often allow for both planned and chance events to co-exist. Recent presentations include Old Songs (2025), a performance installation commissioned by Oscillation festival, Brussels and Sing in the Dark (2024), a voice and Acousmonium performance at Archipel festival, Switzerland.
Willie Stewart is a percussionist, filmmaker and record label owner (Nyahh Records) based in Co Leitrim, Ireland. He has played in numerous bands since the early 90’s. Through never ending exposure to music, creative people and the great planet earth, he has adopted a free improvisational and circular rhythmic style of drumming. Wlilie continually works to create more with less by utilising a very minimal kit setup of standard drums alongside unconventional found objects in a bid to push sonic limits and explore percussive rhythms from the landscapes of his imagination. He has been known to sit and talk to a photograph of Milford Graves with his morning coffee.
Natalia Beylis' music revolves somewhere between sonic story-teller and multi-instrumental explorer. She has released over 40 albums between solo works and collaborations and has appeared on numerous compilations. Based in rural Ireland, her work parallels the lines of her surroundings: creaking trees, farm animals, vocal samples taken from conversations with her neighbours, the northwesterly breeze, creatures rusting in the hedgerows, strange noises from the bog at dusk and rainfall. Lots and lots of rainfall. Her solo compositions and improvisations are a mix of garbled tape collage recordings, manipulated sounds of seemingly mundane objects, eerie mandola mantras and dreamscape piano voyages. While she regularly records on a variety of traditional instruments, she is just as likely to use non-musical sound sources within her compositions. For example, she recently released an album using just the sounds created by a domestic Singer sewing machine. Natalia regularly collaborates with cellist Eimear Reidy, percussionist Willie Stewart in the duo 'Hedgling' and is a member of the group BB84. She also composes pieces for ensembles. Her latest composition, 'Around Here, The Birds Plant The Trees' uses conkers both as a sonic source and as a visual conducting aid to direct the performance.
Griffin’s practice spans time-based and site-specific works, sculpture, drawing, and experimental sound. Their work ranges in form, from an augmented self-playing harp and a video work created within a virtual world to a long-running series of black-ink drawings. Moving between ancient technologies and emerging media, Griffin frequently shifts materials and modes as part of their practice.
