Scribbledehobble (2020)

Music & Literature Streaming Event

Kaleidoscope Night / Music Town / MoLI

Scribbledehobble as a word can mean hurried, untidy writing, or it can be a reference to a workbook with ideas written down quickly –sketches,vignettes. One of James Joyce’s most important notebooks for his Finnegans Wake opens with the word Scribbledehobble. Further to that, one of the key books underlining Finnegans Wake is Sheridan LeFanu’s The  House By The Churchyard. Set in the village of Chapelizod in the 1760s the  story opens with the accidental disinterment of an old skull in the churchyard, and aneerie late-night funeral. 

Like Finnegans Wake, LeFanus' rich tale is full of vignettes, where characters  come and go, mysteries are hinted at, mysteries unravel...The Scribbdehobble audience will tour from room to room in MOLI encountering musical characters as they go who are introduced by excerpts from The House By The Churchyard.Walking with the audience on their journey is a strange figure....he is "Soundman"and from time to time radio programmes sound from his pockets.

The programmes are taken from MOLI’s online Radio stream, augmented with other literary fare from the RTE Sound Archives. Soundman is theghost story that threads through LeFanu’s The House By The Churchyard.At the heart of Finnegans Wake and The House By The Churchyard is afuneral, or a “funferal” (fun for all) in Joyce’s pun. This is our funferal. SCRIBBLEDEHOBBLE A "Funferal" of Words and Music.

Curated & Presented by BERNARD CLARKE

Voice SUE RYNHART

Guitar MIKE NIELSEN

Sound & Visuals CLAIRE FITCH

Violin CLAIRE DUFF

Improvised Sounds & Images DANNY MCCARTHY

Whistles and Vocals CORMAC BREATNACH

Fiddle DAIRE BRACKEN

Accordion MARTIN TOURISH

Sound by ADRIAN HART

Produced by KALEIDOSCOPE NIGHT

- LIOBA PETRIE & KAREN DERVAN -

Directed and Edited by NÉSTOR ROMERO CLEMENTE

Cinematography by AIDAN GAULT

Focus Puller GOSIA ZUR

Colorist EOGHAN MCKENNA

Production Manager CATERINA SCHEMBRI

Production Assistant EDU PRADO

Driver LUKE BRABAZON

Pr MARJIE KALEY