Rob Casey is an Irish composer, researcher and pianist whose interests range from through composed music to free improvisation and the many musical shades of grey in-between. His music mixes conventional and extended instrumental techniques, electronic media, traditional and graphic notation, noise, silence and harmony. Robert’s music has been performed in recent years at a range of festivals including the West Cork Chamber Music Festival, Music Current Festival, Galway Arts Festival, Belfast Festival, Walled City Music Festival and the Kwartesencja Festival in Warsaw
David Lacey has been working as a percussionist at the intersection of improvised/experimental & contemporary music since 1997. He has researched and developed a vocabulary of extended techniques for drums/percussion using preparations and live electronics, as well as utilizing location/field recording & cassettes as part of his sonic palette. Since 2006, David has composed works for recorded media, art installations and dance performance.
David co-founded ‘i-and-e’, to promote concerts of improvised/contemporary music & sound art, organising concerts & collaborating with a number of international improvising musicians. From 2003 to 2011, i-and-e curated over 40 events, including an annual international festival and an Irish tour for musicians Keith Rowe and Peter Rehberg.