Sean O'Riada (1931-71) built the foundations of Irish art music by extending traditional music via both classical and folk music. Ordnance Survey’s Nomos: O'Riada Reimagined (2022) uses technology to achieve such aims within electronic music. Using compositional processes within the field of Spectral Music, where musical decisions are informed by the mathematical analysis of sounds, a piece of software called a spectrogram was used and this allowed for sounds to be viewed as individual samples. Information from these samples were then used as the basis in forming the material for the album. Pedal Steel guitarist David Murphy was invited into the studio to collaborate and add to the recordings. Nomos: O'Riada Reimagined used such approaches, as O’Riada quotes in ‘Our Musical Heritage’, as ‘a creative contributor to the tradition’. Much the same way O’Riada attempted to add and extend toward the canon of traditional music, it is hoped that this variation adds to the language of electronic music in Ireland now and into the future.
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