The Room In The Tower

by Roger Doyle

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New limited edition re-release CD in card wallet - February 2015. Artwork by Ciarán Byrne.

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1.	Theme from The Room In The Tower 02:49	info	buy track
2.	The First Dream 05:09	info	buy track
3.	Between Two Dreams 01:34	info	buy track
4.	The Second Dream 05:22	info	buy track
5.	Playing Cards 04:20	info	buy track
6.	With Time I Got To Know 03:35	info	buy track
7.	But She Was Dead 02:51	info	buy track
8.	The Telephone Call 03:09	info	buy track
9.	Ah, Beloved (song) 03:38	info	buy track
10.	Moving The Painting 03:25	info	buy track
11.	I Fell Asleep Instantly (free download) 05:03	info	buy track
12.	Into The Dark Again 05:15	info	buy track
13.	Revenant 06:16	info	buy track
14.	9/8 Closing 02:48	info	buy track
15.	Into The Dark - instrumental (bonus track) 04:50	info	buy track

about

This is the second in a series of collaborative 'cinema for the ear' projects between writer Carlo Gébler and composer Roger Doyle. Doyle's idea for each is to compose a live soundtrack for an imaginary film, with playback of pre-recorded acted scenes coming through loudspeakers, with dimmed lighting, together with live musicians, lit only by their music stands. In this way audience members are given the impression they are present at the screening of a film, but one they cannot see, only hear.

At one point there is a synchronisation between what is heard in the 'movie' is what is seen onstage...the lights are brought up and the audience sees a ghostly singer coming onstage. After the song ends (track 9) she disappears into the shadows and the lights go back down.

The first performance took place at the Project Arts Centre, Dublin, on October 25th 2009, by the Crash Ensemble (piano, bass clarinet, 'cello and double bass) and singer Julie Feeney, with playback of the acted scenes. This recording is a revised and expanded studio version, with Doyle playing all instrumental parts on a keyboard into music software, with singer Vyvienne Long.
It was performed in this revised version by Doyle (grand piano, in costume and wig) and Long (vocals and 'cello), with playback, for a week in September 2010 at the ABSOLUT Fringe Festival in an old upstairs room at the National Concert-Hall, Dublin, and at the Pavilion Theatre in Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin, in June 2011.
It was broadcast twice by RTÉ Radio 1 in it's 'Drama on One' series.

credits

released February 2, 2015

Roger Doyle: composition, piano, software instruments, production © and ℗ PRS/MCPS 2009/10.
Script by Carlo Gébler, adapted from a story written by E.F. Benson in 1912. Vyvienne Long: vocals;
ROBERT O'MAHONEY: Edward; SUSAN FITZGERALD: Julia Stone;
DAVY CLEMENTS: Jack Stone; DAVID HEAP: John Clinton;
SALLY CLEMENTS: Mrs. Clinton; ALAN STANFORD: Man at the End;
Director, sound recordist and post-production of the acted scenes: Roger Doyle. Screams on tracks 6 and 11: Olwen Fouéré. Vienna Virtual Instruments programming on track 5 (first half): Rori Coleman; Poster and album design: Ciarán Byrne. Photo: Michelle Connolly. Doll construction (originally made for the Operating Theatre production 'Passades'): Gaby Dowling.
Recorded at Rabbit And Costelloe's.
Total time: 55'31 (CD); 60'20 (download).
This production was made possible with a grant from the Arts Council (Music Project Award 2009) and Dun Laoghaire County Council Arts Office.
Tracks can be downloaded at CD quality and have been uploaded from original masters.

rogerdoyle.com/discography/

'A man sits alone at the Piano. With a shock of dirty, white hair and a grubby dressing gown he strikes up his soul taunting score…. Roger Doyle’s composition is a glorious, Gothic mood piece. With only an occasional silent stare from Doyle’s beady eyes it is left to our own imagination to conjure up the images to match the mood, a rare act of communal imagining discarded since the advent of television'.
- Diatribes

'Doyle’s previous experience as an actor pays off during the piece; periodically he would raise his eyes from the piano and slowly scan the room, scanning the audience and meeting their gaze with an icy stare. His piano playing punctuates The Room in the Tower and forms not only an ambience in the room but acts as a physical bridge between the audience and the characters whose voices are coming out of the speakers.
The Room in the Tower is a fantastic addition to the Cinema for the Ear series'.
Brainwashed Magazine

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Roger Doyle Ireland

Roger Doyle – composer, keyboardist and producer of own music, in concert and in the studio. Likes to work on large projects and to collaborate with others. Works with a multiplicity of musical languages and evolving technologies.

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