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18/12/2025

Check out Phil Maguire’s latest radio show: https://www.mixcloud.com/eistcork/phil-maguire-seomra-folamh-danny-mccarthy-special-251217/

Celebrating Danny McCarthy’s work including his latest release ‘‘Haunted by Silence’ as well as other pieces introduced by Danny.

05/12/2025

Haunted By Silence by Danny McCarthy is now available on CD and digital formats:
https://farpoint.bandcamp.com/album/haunted-by-silence

Sound artist Danny McCarthy’s new CD 'Haunted By Silence' was launched on Wednesday night at Contemporary Music Centre in Dublin, accompanied by Bernard Clarke from RTÉ lyric fm and Farpoint’s David Stalling and Anthony Kelly.

During the event, CMC’s director Evonne Ferguson praised Danny’s unique approach to sound making while Bernard Clarke offered the audience a detailed and thoughtful response to ‘Haunted By Silence’.

The hypnotic 47-minute composition was inspired by McCarthy's deep listening experiences at St. Mary's Abbey, Glencairn, home to Ireland’s only Cistercian nuns, whose life is centered on silence. He recorded the unique, indeterminate sounds inspired by the Abbey's wood contracting as the heating system cools down in the evening. McCarthy weaves these field recordings and sounds from found objects to reflect both his practice of deep listening and his sublime compositional skills.

Haunted By Silence is enhanced by two specially commissioned essays: one by renowned sound artist David Toop and another by Sr Eleanor Campion, a Cistercian nun from the Abbey.

24/11/2025

Farpoint Recordings and CMC Ireland are delighted to launch 'Haunted By Silence' by Danny McCarthy, a new solo album released by Farpoint Recordings.

*About this release*

Danny McCarthy had in mind for many years to try and create a work based around the sounds he listened to in St. Mary's Abbey, Glencairn, County Waterford, which is home to Ireland's only community of Cistercian nuns. He describes it as a wonderful place that he visits regularly - sitting there for hours on end, just listening...In the evening, when the heating system is switched off the wood in the Abbey contracts with the cooling air leading to a sequence of incredible sounds randomly occurring from various locations throughout. These sounds are completely indeterminate; no two are the same and can come from anywhere at any time.

‘Haunted By Silence’ takes inspiration from these phenomena - McCarthy uses field recordings and sounds created using found objects to weave a single forty seven minute hypnotic composition that on one level reflects his practice of deep listening, and his sublime compositional skills on another. Although this work has its basis in a sound installation in the vaults at Lavit Gallery, Cork which was curated by Brian Mac Domhnaill, it is a work in itself, inspired by it and reworked as a two channel piece.

Join us to celebrate the launch of 'Haunted By Silence' on 2nd December 2025. The project will be introduced by Bernard Clarke (RTÉ lyric fm), and followed by a short live set by Danny McCarthy accompanied by David Stalling & Anthony Kelly.

The CD (featuring essays by David Toop & Sr. Eleanor Campion) will be available at the special launch price of €10.

Admission is free but advance registration is required.
Please contact the Farpoint team at [email protected] by Friday 28th November to find out more and register your interest.

We'd love to see you there!

21/11/2025

Farpoint's new website is almost ready to launch.
https://www.farpointrecordings.com
Check out our holding page with a few hints of what’s ahead. Take a look, and get ready for new sounds, releases, and projects as we relaunch soon.

17/11/2025

Confluence by NCH Gamelan Orchestra – out now!
https://farpoint.bandcamp.com/album/confluence-by-nch-gamelan-orchestra
Digital Album with 30 page pdf booklet
The music on this album was written especially for the celebrated Irish uilleann piper Mark Redmond and the principal cellist of Ireland’s National Symphony Orchestra, Martin Johnson. These works were first performed at the New Music Dublin Festival in Ireland’s National Concert Hall on Apr 26th 2025. From the opening Irish slow air to the concluding Javanese gangsaran, this album represents a confluence of diverse musical traditions, from Ireland and Java, to India, to Western classical music and the avant-garde.

The players of the NCH Gamelan Orchestra perform on a beautiful and prestigious set of bronze gamelan instruments from Central Java which were gifted to the Irish people by His Royal Highness Sultan Hamengkubuwono X of Yogyakarta in 2014.

18/10/2025

Looking forward to our live performance on Saturday 22nd October at the Mermaid Arts Centre in Bray. Meet the performers, from left to right: Anthony Kelly, Helen O’Connell, Izumi Kimura and Cora Venus Lunny.

Event details: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1BZjguhVfL/

11/10/2025

Aquifer, a multidisciplinary live performance
by Izumi Kimura, Helen O'Connell, Anthony Kelly, Cora Venus Lunny, Michael Durand
Mermaid Arts Centre, 8pm, 22nd October 2025 Tickets: https://www.mermaidartscentre.ie/whats-on/events/aquifer

Wicklow-based stone sculptor Helen O'Connell and pianist Izumi Kimura began a collaborative dialogue in 2024. Through intuitive exchanges, they created an ongoing conversation between sound and stone. This collaboration quickly evolved into a multidisciplinary live performance, which has since expanded to include artists Anthony Kelly (sound recording, amplified objects and electronics), Cora Venus Lunny (violin), Michael Durand (photography), and Luke McManus (documentary filmmaker).

Join us for a one-of-a-kind live concert featuring improvised music and stone carving. Each ticket includes a token for our upcoming album, scheduled for release in 2026 on the Farpoint Recordings label.

29/08/2025

We hope your summer is sounding as good as it feels! Great news for lovers of adventurous music → Volume Records has just restocked some of our most loved back catalogue Vinyl and CD releases including:

– The Quiet Club (Mick O'Shea & Danny McCarthy)
– Quiet Music Ensemble
– Cora Venus Lunny
– John McLachlan
– David Bremner
– Anthony Kelly
– David Stalling
– Izumi Kimura
– Sonic Vigil 6
– Ian Wilson

If you haven’t been yet, Volume Records is a gem of an independent record shop in the heart of Dun Laoghaire - packed with amazing finds, passionate music vibes, and of course, great conversation with Neil the owner.

Dun Laoghaire's favourite independent record label → Farpoint Recordings

Dun Laoghaire's favourite independent record shop → Volume Records

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