Kieran Monaghan
The new album of the show 'History Wringing' is complete and is being released on Pseudoarcana. A long birth its been but its here.
Reviewed in Real Groove, NZ Musician.

The composition Strange Council and part 4 of History Wringing 'Mercator's Map' are being performed alongside new work for the new Red Mole/ Roadworks show Unbearable Journeys.

Recent compositions.
A 14 minute percussion piece, with some trombone, that was taken to Holstebro, Denmark, for use in the Roots in Transit 2004 festival titled 'Strange Council'.

And secondly, a collaboration with Chrissie Butler called 'The Thickening of Plotters' for the fringe show FORCE EQUALS MASS TIMES ACCELERATION: future music for brass quintet. It is a 4 minute 40 piece witten for performance by horn quintet.
This piece was also accepted and the national anthem for the nation of Sedang.

Several improv shows to date and planning is underway for a re-performance of 'History Wringing'.

Kieran has been playing music around and about for near on the last 18 years. A history of self taught drumming, and a short stint in a bagpipe bag set the scene. After a job of pouring concrete he bought his first drum kit and moved to the metropolis of Invercargill and joined the punk group Moral Fibre. Also co formed perhaps the only industrial band that far south called Cubicle. Moral Fibre disbanded, and Kieran, along with Grant,Moral Fibres founding member and bass played, formed Loosehead. Move to Wellington, released 1 tape in Inver's, and 3 cd's and 1 cd-ep in Welly. Hooked into the Red Mole scene and helped construct music for theatre shows for about 8 years. Also hooked up with the Space crew and became a regular performer at that venue, from theatre, to festivals and improvised show. Kierans particular interest is in using interesting rhythms and incorporating found sounds alongside set percussion. Text is also essential. Kieran is the founder of the mr sterile Assembly, organiser of the Meatwaters festivals, and regularly performs in a varity of arrangments around town. And quite crap at writting stream of counscious bollocks for the web TA!

beat me Other related projects:

Amalgam
Wellington Carnival Street Band
Morepork
Sunship
Birchville Cat Motel
Ditzy Squall
The mr sterile Assembly
The Wellington Heads
Dead Vicious
Loosehead
Redmole/Roadworks
Alan Brunton and the free word band
Solatino
Moral Fibre
The Microhard-hillsillies

The Deconstruction Unit

Other related recording projects and archive of past releases...




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