Tantacrul

The last thing ever recorded by '22'. A demo for the Steve Martin Single. The album can't be bought online anymore although I still have a few floating around. PM me if you'd like a physical copy.

This pieces is about disruption of concentration. To a certain extent, it's also intended to practice what it preaches by displaying a characteristic of the ‘barrier’ in question. Those barriers are split into movements: 1 Irresolution 2 Interference 3 Impulsivity The first movement was performed by Zhenya Vilk. Movement 2 and 3 are digital renderings. I still haven't managed to get this piece performed in full.

By Martin Keary, copyright 2014. For Guitar, Violin, Viola and Cello. Performed at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2014. It won the Claxica International Guitar Festival award in 2015.

This piece is based on the concept of ‘newness’ in art: an idea loaded with more connotations and expectations than any other I can think of, and one that I have a complicated relationship with since I constantly feel it exerting pressure on my visual and musical work. With this in mind, NEW is intended to ‘practice what it preaches’ by embodying what I think are the most interesting characteristics of the idea of newness in the 21st century: the uncomfortable link it has with novelty, technology and self-promotion; how it can fill a work with promise and excitement or conversely, cheapen it. And ultimately - when you consider that an ostensibly ‘new’ work is really just the latest re-shuffling of a collection of innumerable historical influences - how unattainable it is.

This is my first complete visual music study. The idea was to present individual elements that gradually combine to make a larger whole. This was done as research to prepare me for 'NEW' (2016)

This is a recording of a live performance by Isabelle O'Connell's at Luther House, Dublin on 11th October, 2018.

Earlier in the year, I released a video called 'Eurovision 2018 - A Musical Misadventure' which was issued with a taken down notice by Eurovision.TV, who didn't like the criticism and decided to strong arm me with threats of lawsuits to shut me up. While I figure out how to deal with this, I thought I'd upload the ending of that video, which was a song that encapsulated all the tropes that I noticed in the entries for 2018. It sucks... enjoy!