Shootout Shootout: Meeting the Players. Writer Glenn Patterson and composer Pete McCauley (Rams Pocket Radio) go to Wilgar Park in East Belfast to meet the Dundela football team. The artists are collaborating on a conceptual piece called Shootout – the theme is football, looked at through the drama of a penalty shootout.
Video Diary 1 When Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Tom Byrne agreed to work collaboratively for the Comment-8 project on an Olympic sports with an Irish theme, the obvious choice was the equestrian sports. Nuala and Tom went to visit Lenamore Stables outside Derry/Londonderry and just over the border into Donegal. Although neither had ridden a [...]
Number Seven: The Run Through To celebrate the completion of Number Seven, the Verbal Arts Centre invited the University of Ulster choir to give a short preview performance. Number Seven is a choral piece which tells the story of a race, with a commentary on the experiences of the runner number seven: the external commentary [...]
Comment-8 is funded by Legacy Trust UK, creating a lasting impact from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games by funding ideas and local talent to inspire creativity across the UK and co-ordinated by the Verbal Arts Centre. The project aims to forge new links between sport and the arts, and will see the commissioning of a series of six Olympic sports inspired performance pieces, created through literary and musical collaborations between some of our best local writers and musical composers. For each commission the artists will seek inspiration from working directly with a local sports club, and the theme running through the whole series will be the presence of the sports commentator.
Number Seven: The Run-through…. Everyone enjoyed their first hearing of the new Comment-8 commission Number Sevenat the Verbal Arts Centre on Thursday 9thFebruary. http://newswireni.com/content/emotions-runners-put-music-comment-8-2012-performance
A date for your diary… Thursday 9th February @ 7:00p.m. Comment-8: The Run-through The artists, musicians and sportsmen and women who have been involved in the first commissions for Comment-8 2012 will be gathering at the Verbal Arts Centre to celebrate the culmination of the unique commissioning phase of the project. This will be their [...]
Video Diary 2 Carlo Gébler and Sean Doherty spent a few weeks getting to know the City of Derry AC Spartans before composing their piece entitled “Number Seven”. In this second video diary, Sean talks about composing the music, and the writers go back to the club to present a version of their work and [...]
Video Diary 1 The first of our commissions for 2012 is well under way, and writer Carlo Gébler is collaborating with young composer Seán Doherty to create a piece inspired by athletics. They have decided to produce a composition on running. The artists have made contacts with the City of Derry AC Spartans, and to [...]
Comment-8 – welcome to our new website! In 2012 the Comment-8 project will be rolling out three new commissions. Each of our commissions is inspired by a different sport; writing on the theme of running will be Carlo Gébler and Sean Doherty, while NualaNíDhomhnaill and Tom Byrne will tackle equestrian sport and Glenn Patterson and [...]
