Cork Opera House is inviting submissions from budding electronic artists for the experimental Reich Remix Competition.
If you are a musician, DJ, music producer, remixer or Reich aficionado and want to create your own original Reich Effect, then this is for you. The finalists will be judged and selected by none other than Steve Reich, having been shortlisted by a panel of high profile judges including Jim Carroll, Gavin Friday, Stevie G, Nialler09 and Dónal Dineen.
Application packs are available for download here:
http://www.corkoperahouse.ie/sites/default/files/Reich%20Remix%20Competition_1.pdf
Submissions must be received by 5pm Friday 17th June
Further information on the Reich Effect festival from the Opera House website.
“In my generation we tore the wall down, if Brian Eno or David Bowie come to me, and if popular musicians remix my music like The Orb or DJ Spooky it is a good thing”.
– Steve Reich
In 1991, The Orb’s “Fluffy Little Clouds” gave a major pop nod to Steve Reich, whose composition “Electric Counterpoint” served as the foundation for the band’s breakthrough hit. Reich’s entire output — from early tape collages and pioneering work to his later, larger and more intricate works, including collaborations with visual artists — has served as both template and inspiration for a growing legion of electronic musicians and DJs. The ideas that Steve Reich has been mining for the past three decades have inspired not only the sensibilities of today’s youth culture, but also the technological developments that have shaped them.
“From the phase-shifting tape loop pieces of the early to mid-60s, to the later, more ‘composed’ works with their gradually developing cellular rhythmic and melodic structures, an approach which reached its apogee in the late 70s, Reich’s music can be heard echoing across the Electronica spectrum, from the most hardcore German Techno to Aphex Twin, D*Note, Alec Empire, Tortoise, Panasonic…”
—The Wire
It was recently announced that Cork Opera House is to 
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The Blue Tent
Come down and meet the folks is a brand new live music night at Fred Zeppelins in Cork, focussing on acoustic/americana/folk songwriters from Cork and further afield. Each night will feature performances from at least two acts with a special guest host taking charge of proceedings and perhaps spinning a yarn or two to go with a song of their own along the way.
