The Spa­tial Music Col­lec­tive is a group of like-minded Dublin-based com­posers work­ing in the field of spa­tial music. Over the past four years, they have pre­sented per­for­mances of new musi­cal works with a dynamic and novel spa­tial com­po­nent, incor­po­rat­ing both elec­tronic and acoustic forces.

Fol­low­ing a suc­cess­ful series of tape con­certs in 2007, last year brought new devel­op­ments with the aid of Arts Coun­cil sup­port, includ­ing per­for­mances in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the New Dublin Voices (Jan­u­ary, TCD Chapel) and the Bridge­wood Ensem­ble (June, SS Michael & John).

The col­lab­o­ra­tion with the New Dublin Voices included the prizewin­ning Sea Swell by Enda Bates (prizewin­ner at the 37th Flo­ri­lege Vocal de Tours). The Bridge­wood Ensem­ble con­cert was described by Michael Dun­gan in The Irish Times as “fresh and sin­cere and, in a way, util­i­tar­ian, tak­ing the string quar­tet as just one more cre­ative vehi­cle among many”.

The third con­cert of the series, fea­tur­ing new works for the Dublin Gui­tar Quar­tet, took place in August 2010. Fur­ther con­certs are cur­rently being planned and will be announced shortly.