Judith Ring

EVERYTHING WAS ASLEEP AS IF THE UNIVERSE WAS A VAST MISTAKE
Written for the National Symphony Orchestra as part of The Contemporary Music Centre’s Composer Lab. The premiere performance and live broadcast on RTÉ Lyric FM was on the 9th of January 2023:

SWEPT THROUGH THE FLOODS
Commissioned by Larissa O’Grady with funds from the Arts Council:

WINTER WISPS SOFTLY DISSIPATE
Commissioned by Music Network. Written for Christian-Pierre La Marca and Félicien Brut (cello and accordion) as part of their Music Network tour around Ireland. Performed in Newman University Church, Dublin 2 on 16th November 2022.

OF WOODS AND WATER
Commissioned by the Appalachian Chamber Music Festival in Berryville, Virginia, USA. Premiere performed by Rachelle Hunt (violin 1), Audrey Pride (violin 2), Danielle Wiebe Burke (viola), Schuyler Slack (cello) on the 18th August 2022 and sponsored by Berryville Graphics.

ACROSS THE EMPTY SQUARES
Commissioned by the Sligo International Chamber Music Festival 2021. Performed by Dermot Dunne (accordion and electronics).

IS IT OVER YET?
Written for and performed by Lina Andonovska and herself. Commissioned by Music Network for The Butterfly Sessions - a series of online performances in response to the COVID19 lockdown.

VALENTIA ISLAND
Solo vocal and loop station set I performed as part of my composer in residence at the Chamber Music on Valentia festival 2018.

CASSANDRA VOICES CHRISTMAS GATHERING 2019
Solo vocal and loop station set.

SWELT BELLY AT DAWN
Performed in Chicago by Access Contemporary Music as part of their Global Connections concert.

Global Connections: Ireland - "Swelt Belly At Dawn" - Judith Ring from ACM on Vimeo.

WITHIN AN EGG OF SPACE
Performed by Concorde at the Hugh Lane Gallery. The performance took place on 18 September 2016 as part of Concorde’s 40th birthday concert celebration.

FLUX – jeux de bague
Video piece featuring my piece Flux – jeux de bague. A collaboration with Nathalie Forget on Ondes Martenot.

Coeur, Nathalie Forget, ondes Martenot, ondea and visual arts from Nat on Vimeo.

UP TO MY F-HOLES
Performed by Kate Ellis on cello and Rory Tangney drawing at Phonica night, Smock Alley Theatre 2017.

Composition for cello and electronics by Judith Ring. Phonica is a Dublin-based poetry and music venture with an emphasis on multiformity and the experimental. Curated and hosted by Christodoulos Makris and Olesya Zdorovetska, Phonica aims to provide an outlet for the exploration and presentation of new ideas, a space where practitioners from different artforms can converse, and an environment conducive to collaborative enterprise and improvisation.


MY ONE’S BIGGER THAN YOURS
Performed by Kate Ellis (cello) and Malachy Robinson (double Bass) at SENSORIUM festival, Dublin 2011

TO PULL AN EERIE TWIST - VIDEO BY BENEDICT SCHLEPPER CONNOLLY

Documentary film by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly for the Journal of Music on the writing of “To Pull an Eerie Twist”, 2011.

WHAT WAS - ALBUM PROMO VIDEO
Filmed and edited by Laura Sheeran for Ergodos records.

A promotional film for my debut album What Was on Ergodos records.

PLEASE REMAIN SEATED choreography by Anna Melander, music by Judith Ring

A collaboration with composer. Judith Ring Choreography Anna Melander. A city or village is a living organism with it’s own intricate rythm. We are all part of the organism called society.

LOST AGAIN choreography by Anna Melander, music by Judith Ring

A collaboration with the composer Judith Ring dancers Anna Melander and Sarah Callow


GONE – a video and sound installation project I made while on a residency at Akademie der Künste, Berlin’s Sommerakademie in 2003.

GONE from Judith Ring on Vimeo.

I spent two weeks hanging around a deserted, derelict factory in Rüdersdorf, Brandenburg, on the outskirts of Berlin. It was a desolate place, completely abandoned and it’s former function lost….gone…. It was a strange place to work and create a project but I found it visually stunning and so borrowed a video camera and started shooting everyday. This particular building caught my attention. I had to climb up a ladder to get into the space but each day there was a different lighting effect happening on the walls. It was also intensely quiet there so I made some recordings of found objects being thrown around within the space and elements being disturbed. This piece was exhibited in Rüdersdorf at the end of my residency alongside several other artists work and again at Akademie der Künste in Berlin as part of the Junge Akademie exhibition in 2003/4.

INTERFERENCE FABRIK

Interference Fabrik from Judith Ring on Vimeo.

Interference Fabrik from Judith Ring on Vimeo. This is some raw footage I shot on the grounds of the factory while on the residency as part of Akademie der Künste’s sommerakademie in 2003. For this video I have added a piece I wrote while working at the ADK studios in Berlin to the raw footage to help bring it to life. This is not a piece of video art. It is simply some fascinating footage of a profoundly beautiful derelict factory that I thought I would share. To me every shot is a work of art. A feast for the eyes. It is unedited and should be viewed from a purely observational point of view. A lot of clarity has been lost in the compression process but hopefully it will give some impression of my experience.