Musicology
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The image of the head of the carnyx shown here reflects John's involvement in music archaeology. He initiated the reconstruction of the carnyx and of the Scottish triple pipes, and produced the Kilmartin Sessions CD as well as providing text, recordings and supervising reconstructions for the Kilmartin House Museum. He also reconstructed the River Erne horn.
John has also appeared as a performer on CDs of prehistoric music and for exhibitons and film.
1997 (bronze age horns and vocals), The Kilmartin Sessions, www.kht.org.uk
2002 (bronze age horns and vocals) Old to New, prehistoricmusic.com.
2002 (bronze age horn and cello) RTE award-winning programme of Michael Holohan’s and Paul Durkan’s A Snail in my Prime. 22.3.2002 First broadcast 25.12.2000.
2010-2011 Window to the West, music for Norman Shaw installation, City Art Gallery, Edinburgh.
2011 (bone whistles, bronze age horns and vocals) Film Eagle, music by Atli Örvarsson
2011 (bronze age horns, vocals etc) Music for Gillian Russell’s Uamh, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh January 2011
The image of the head of the carnyx shown here reflects John's involvement in music archaeology. He initiated the reconstruction of the carnyx and of the Scottish triple pipes, and produced the Kilmartin Sessions CD as well as providing text, recordings and supervising reconstructions for the Kilmartin House Museum. He also reconstructed the River Erne horn.
John has also appeared as a performer on CDs of prehistoric music and for exhibitons and film.
1997 (bronze age horns and vocals), The Kilmartin Sessions, www.kht.org.uk
2002 (bronze age horns and vocals) Old to New, prehistoricmusic.com.
2002 (bronze age horn and cello) RTE award-winning programme of Michael Holohan’s and Paul Durkan’s A Snail in my Prime. 22.3.2002 First broadcast 25.12.2000.
2010-2011 Window to the West, music for Norman Shaw installation, City Art Gallery, Edinburgh.
2011 (bone whistles, bronze age horns and vocals) Film Eagle, music by Atli Örvarsson
2011 (bronze age horns, vocals etc) Music for Gillian Russell’s Uamh, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh January 2011