BABEL – 25th anniversary special edition
Double LP gatefold vinyl with full download code. Originally released as a 5-CD set in 1999. Contains 103 pieces of music, with 48 collaborators, which took 10 years to compose. Each track imagined as a room or place in a giant tower city.
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Shylight Beaconings
21 new pieces composed on software instruments, each named after a phrase from James Joyce’s Finnegams Wake. CD version comes in an edition of 50 with dual layer, hand crafted cover. ‘All the duskcended airs and shylit beaconings’. (2024)
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In The Dreemplace
A re-designed second edition with 4 new tracks. The CD edition has hand-crafted cover. Contains the commissioned title track for violin and backing track, a spoken extract from James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake set to music, and a bonus digital track. (2024)
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Finnegans Wake – Suite Of Affections
Chosen extracts from James Joyce’s novel, spoken by top Irish film and theatre actors. These recordings then set to music (2021/23). CD and digital, in 2 volumes. Multi-stylistic musically.
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Lights All Askew In The Heavens
Electronic music inspired by the Aurora Borealis. The title coming from a 1919 headline in the New York Times, proving Einstein’s theory that light could be bent by gravity. CD/digital. (2021).
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iGIRL – Acts One and Two
A double album studio recording of Doyle’s second electronic opera – lyrics by Marina Carr. “Doyle’s sound world is distinctive…and strangely beautiful.”
Critics Choice Award Opera News USA (2021).
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The Electrification Of Night
14 compositions for electronic sounds and keyboard-based software instrumentals. “it’s the product of a master musician at work”. Classical Ear UK. CD, download and streaming. (2019).
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The Heresy Ostraca
A remix album which fragments audio files taken from the Heresy opera recordings and makes unrecognisable new pieces from the re-assemblage. CD, download and streaming. (2018).
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Heresy
The studio recording of an electronic opera based on the life and work of philosopher monk Giordano Bruno, who was burnt at the stake in 1600. A double album with 24 page booklet. CD/digital (2017).
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Homemade Ivory Dreams
10 keyboard-based software instruments compositions, and 1 live concert piano track. “As if Debussy had collaborated with dance-music duo Orbital”. (Classical Ear 2017). CD, download and streaming.
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Frail Things In Eternal Places
Electronic sounds & software instruments with the scored and/or improvised vocal collaborations of singers from Finland, Ukraine, Ireland. A memory theatre (2016).
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Time Machine
Music composed around telephone answering machine messages from the 1980s, together with instrumental compositions evoking exotic cultures (2015).
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Playlist
A place which you can visit from time to time and listen to new tracks as they are being composed by Roger Doyle. Currently tracks from forthcoming album.
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Grandfather Clock
Music composed for 2 grandchildren and 5 step grandchildren. The clock is ticking… (2014 rev 2018/21 – more kids).
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The Thousand Year Old Boy
Explorations in imagined world musics – past, present and future; for software instruments, electronic sounds, boy soprano & singers from Iran & Ukraine. (2013).
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The Room In The Tower
The second in the ‘cinema for the ear’ series – a soundtrack for an imaginary horror film, with no screen, based around a recurring nightmare. (2011).
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Cool Steel Army
3 pieces, including a soundtrack for an imaginary film with virtual orchestra and acted scenes. A biopic without the pic. (2009).
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The Ninth Set (Passades – Volume 3)
Awarded the Magisterium Prtize at the 2007 Bourges International Electro-acoustic Music Competition, France.
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Passades – Volume 2
Working with the creative possibilities of software which freeze-frames sounds, and allows them move forwards or backwards slowly (2005).
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Passades – Volume 1
A Passade is an equestrian term meaning to move forwards or backwards slowly over the same space.; and a French Revolution bi-centenary commission from 1989 (2004).
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Baby Grand
An album of Doyle’s best piano music, played by himself, spanning a 30 year period. Includes live Budawanny variations and music from his Salomé suite (2006).
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Babel
The 5-CD set, originally released in 1999. Babel is a large-scale compositional structure celebrating the multiplicity of musical languages and evolving technologies as the 20th century came to a close. Each track a ‘room’ within the Tower. 48 collaborators.
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Fairlight Memories
A double album of pieces composed between 1983 and 1988 on a Fairlight Computer Music Instrument.
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Budawanny
The soundtracks of 2 films made in the 1980’s, directed by Irish film-maker Bob Quinn; and an arrangement of an old Irish song. Budawanny shot as a silent film with 70 minute score.
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Operating Theatre – The Early Years
A double album release to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the founding, by composer Roger Doyle and performer Olwen Fouere, of the music-theatre company Operating Theatre in 1981.
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Rapid Eye Movements
3 electro-acoustic works composed in studios in Finland and Holland, and an early piano suite. Remastered 2002. Original release 1981: United Dairies, London. The title track is an attempt at ‘a masterpiece before the age of 30′.
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Thalia/Oizzo No
This is a re-mastered album from 2002 of Doyle’s early works – his first 2 releases, originally on vinyl Oizzo No (1975: self-released) and Thalia (1978: CBS Classics)
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