Irish Composer Roger Doyle Synthesizing Sounds, 1983

Composer Roger Doyle is embracing new approaches to creating sound through the Fairlight Computer Musical Instrument.
Operating Theatre is an avant-garde music theatre company founded by composer Roger Doyle and actress and performer Olwen Fouéré. Roger Doyle plays the Fairlight CMI with Olwen Fouéré on vocals for their first public performance of ‘Part Of My Make-up’. This piece was first composed on a piano and then transferred to the Fairlight CMI.
Roger Doyle describes the thinking behind the Operating Theatre project and explains how he uses the Fairlight CMI.
Operating Theatre is a group of actors and musicians who come together for various artistic adventures.
Operating Theatre is one part theatre and one part music, with a core membership of Roger and Olwen with other artists joining them for various different projects.
The Fairlight CMI comprises a synthesizer, sampler and workstation and uses samples to generate sounds and create music. Roger Doyle demonstrates how the instrument works creating a sound he calls ‘Live Arts’ with a teacup from the RTÉ canteen. A monitor displays the waveform of the particular sounds created.
It’s just a little squiggle at the beginning and the rest is silence.
The Fairlight can synthesize any conventional instrument. Roger Doyle is using it for more of his composing.
It’s more interesting to work with new sounds.
He describes the Fairlight as “a composer’s tool” that allows him to think in new ways about the creative process.
He does not believe that Fairlight technology will replace traditional orchestras. There are about 50 Fairlights in the world and just one in Ireland and according to Roger Doyle, nobody is using it to replace traditional instruments. The technology is now being used by musicians such as Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush as well as by advertising agencies and in film production.
This episode of ‘Live Arts Show’ was broadcast on 17 October 1983. The presenter is John Hutchinson.
‘Live Arts Show’ was a monthly arts programme presented by Moya Doherty and John Hutchinson. The programme was produced by Anne McCabe.

[@markkeogh18]

Roger is such an inspiration.

[@zandeery2969]

This is great!

[@croiners4166]

This is great, thanks for sharing ❤

[@ursulatraynor]

Exciting !

[@nightheron5892]

…..over there……

[@Crosshatch1212]

And over here .

[@nobodynoone2500]

The CMI Fairlight is Amazing... that performance however...

[@croiners4166]

Hey, be nice.

[@gindphace]

Sounds like OPN

[@saintelsewhere6513]

@millennial_bugOneohtrix Point Never, AKA Daniel Lopatin. Its funny because I have just been getting into Operating Table/Roger Doyle for the past hour and a few minutes ago I thought to myself that this sounds like something OPN would make.

[@LocalBoyIreland]

I saw them both play at the same even in the National Concert Hall in Dublin!

[@gindphace]

@@LocalBoyIreland I just went to OPN at that event. Good gig! I was expecting him to do more of a vocal performance but fortunately we got the synth arps.

[@mojofilter96]

Awful then, awful now won't ever unsee that

[@Paul-lf1bq]

I’d like to hear this without the vocals