“Ireland’s only disabled-led orchestra is preparing for its inaugural performance,” writes Mícheál Ó Scannail in Thursday’s (9/26) Irish Independent (Dublin). “The Open Youth Orchestra of Ireland (OYOI) will hold its inaugural performance on Sunday…. The group will not only showcase their musical ability, but also their adaptive instruments, including a virtual reality element, and their new innovative means of understanding the music called ‘Conductology.’ … The group also enjoys access to conventional instruments as well as adaptive and virtual reality tools…. The gesture-based [conductology] acts almost like sheet music for typical orchestras, so that anywhere in the world, if musicians are performing and rehearsing individually apart from each other, the conductology acts as a playing prompt. The gestures allow the conductologist to direct musicians. Since the OYOI is made up of four provincial … ensembles, the new system allows them to collaborate within a guiding framework, and driven by each ensemble director, despite not practicing together…. The group was formulated by the Royal Irish Academy of Music (RIAM) after they decided to explore which subset of Ireland did not get to express their creativity through music.”
Posted September 27, 2019
