24/11/2025
Farpoint Recordings and CMC Ireland are delighted to launch 'Haunted By Silence' by Danny McCarthy, a new solo album released by Farpoint Recordings.
*About this release*
Danny McCarthy had in mind for many years to try and create a work based around the sounds he listened to in St. Mary's Abbey, Glencairn, County Waterford, which is home to Ireland's only community of Cistercian nuns. He describes it as a wonderful place that he visits regularly - sitting there for hours on end, just listening...In the evening, when the heating system is switched off the wood in the Abbey contracts with the cooling air leading to a sequence of incredible sounds randomly occurring from various locations throughout. These sounds are completely indeterminate; no two are the same and can come from anywhere at any time.
‘Haunted By Silence’ takes inspiration from these phenomena - McCarthy uses field recordings and sounds created using found objects to weave a single forty seven minute hypnotic composition that on one level reflects his practice of deep listening, and his sublime compositional skills on another. Although this work has its basis in a sound installation in the vaults at Lavit Gallery, Cork which was curated by Brian Mac Domhnaill, it is a work in itself, inspired by it and reworked as a two channel piece.
Join us to celebrate the launch of 'Haunted By Silence' on 2nd December 2025. The project will be introduced by Bernard Clarke (RTÉ lyric fm), and followed by a short live set by Danny McCarthy accompanied by David Stalling & Anthony Kelly.
The CD (featuring essays by David Toop & Sr. Eleanor Campion) will be available at the special launch price of €10.
Admission is free but advance registration is required.
Please contact the Farpoint team at [email protected] by Friday 28th November to find out more and register your interest.
We'd love to see you there!
