Adam P McCready
Electronic music composer and performer, Sound Designer and Sound Artist.
Photo taken at Castle Rigg Neolithic site, Keswick, UK. Image Credit: Rebecca Little
“I think what I find most interesting is operating around the edges, in the boundaries and border lines. I love the mystery and excitement of liminal spaces and that love and sense of wonder fuels my work.”
New Track Out Now
Repeatedly and at Regular Intervals
This track takes its name from a scene in Lucy Kirkwood’s wonderful play about intergenerational dynamics, sisterhood and particle physics, Mosquitoes and the track is inspired by the characters and themes in the play. Thanks to Lucy Kirkwood for the inspiration and all the other great plays.
Upcoming 2024 Shows will be posted here. Dates tbc
Discography
Repeatedly and at Regular Intervals
This track takes its name from a scene in Lucy Kirkwood’s wonderful play about intergenerational dynamics, sisterhood and particle physics, Mosquitoes and the track is inspired by the characters and themes in the play. Thanks to Lucy Kirkwood for the inspiration and all the other great plays.
Postcards From Home
This album began life as a collaboration between the National Justice Museum and myself where I set a series of monologues to music. The monologues offered a glimpse into individual experiences of isolation during a mass societal constraint, crafted from the lines written in 64 unique ‘letters of constraint’.
Natbakka
This track was inspired by an episode of the excellent Many Minds podcast where Dr. Miriam Knörnschild discusses bat communication and cognition.
I was interested in the sound world bats inhabit that we cannot really understand as it exists beyond the frequency spectrum our species is able to perceive.
So I took a pitched down recording of bats communicating and from that imagined a society without light which contained the richness of vocabulary we use for light and colour but for sound.
In the Long Now-Sonic Ritual No1
Created using field recordings made at Dons Me, commonly known as The Merry Maidens, Neolithic stone circle in St Bryan, Cornwall, UK. In the Long Now-Sonic Rituals No1 was recorded and created over the course of a five day “Sonic Rituals” sound artist practice retreat in April 2024. The self imposed restrictions, as a creative challenge, were to use only field recordings made at the site and then manipulate them employing various digital techniques using impulse response recordings made at the retreat. This is the first short segment of what would be a much longer piece concerning the folklore attached to the stones and their ancient origins.
We Should Definitely Have More Dancing
Extended versions of music from the score for the Oldham Coliseum production We Should Definitely Have More Dancing, a play by Clara Darcy and Ian Kershaw.
Play Synopsis: Clara Darcy is fit! She’s also (almost) care-free, (kind of) happily single and joyously dancing through life but, little does she know, her world is about to be turned upside down thanks to the arrival of a fist - slap-bang in the middle of her head.
Based on her astonishing real-life story and performed by the actress herself.