David Mc Donald is a musician, composer and producer from Dublin. Having spent almost 25 years of his professional career as both an architectural technician and managing director of a successful marble & granite firm, David decided to down tools and follow his true passion in music production and composition by enrolling in MMT in 2011. Music has always been a driving force in his life and throughout the years it has provided a myriad of strange and wonderful experiences from performing live on The Late Late Show and Estonian National TV, to a residency in the Cavern Club in Liverpool as George Harrison. To date, he has written and released 3 albums with commercial success, affording him the privilege of touring extensively throughout Europe and most recently America and South America. His time in Trinity College has led to a new found appreciation beyond expectation, for all aspects of music, sound, technology and visual media.

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Circadian Concréte is an Electroacoustic composition for piano, violin, cello, double bass and electronics. The composition is inspired by the way we define sounds to be musical or non-musical and explores the inherent musicality of everyday sounds. Traditional Musique Concréte techniques as applied in many electroacoustic compositions involve the intentional alteration and removal of the perceived origin of a recorded sound, to create a new sound object. In contrast, the intention of this composition is to involve the listener in a process of re-contextual interpretation of the sounds, whereby through a process of mutual harmonic support and timbral transformations with acoustic instruments, the identity of the sound is retained yet a new musical context occurs naturally as a psychoacoustic byproduct. The composition focuses on 3 main elements: Sound, Time and Mood. The electronic part consists entirely of found sounds as recorded, including domestic appliances, furniture, electronic noise, moving traffic and of course, a train. The temporal/dynamic structure of the composition is based on the circadian cycle of human activity and rest on an average 24 hour day, while the melodic foundation is derived from a progression of 4 specifically linked, time associated North Indian raga to convey mood and colour.

David McDonald