Minister Éamon Ó Cuív TD visits Abaltat offices

Éamon Ó Cuív TD, Minister for Community, Rural & Gaeltacht Affairs, visited the Abaltat offices in Spiddal on Friday 19 October. Much excitement ensued, mar dhea!!! I even shaved for the occasion!

Abaltat Express features on Television Broadcast 2 Minute Drill

Yes,

Abaltat Express features in a www.televisionbroadcast.com 2-Minute Drill:

http://www.televisionbroadcast.com/TMD/archive/2007/101907-two-minutedrill.mp3

CRUINNIÚ

Cruinniu perform LIVE in UL

Cruinniu perform LIVE in Foundation Building

Yes, Cruinniu, UL's Trad Group, performed live last Friday for the release of their 1st CD. All proceeds of the sale of CDs are going to help fund the construction of a snooze room in St. Vincent's School, Lisnagry, Limerick.

We even got to appear on YouTube... that's me 4th from the left at the back, playing a beautiful hand-made Ian Lambe low D whistle.

If you don't see it above, click here to see it!

Ah, stupid taps...

Terrible shame that we don't get mixer taps in Ireland like in continental Europe... Planning laws do not require them. So it's just a case of hot tap, "oww!!!", cold tap, "brrr!!!", hot tap "that burns!!!", cold tap, "ah, that's a relief, no, wait, it's freezing!", hot tap...

Justin McCarthy being interviewed on Radio IBC last week...

The company that was born out of the Metamusic research project in the IDC has won an award in IBC 2007 in Amsterdam.









They were also interviewed on Radio IBC:

www.http://www.radioibc.com/myradioibc

Click on "Abaltat - Music Composition For Dummies!"

Here we go again... another format war!

"Sony Corp said it will launch four models of new Blu-ray high-definition optical disc recorders in November in Japan, as its format battle with the HD DVD camp heats up."

Talk about not learning from history...

Stereo vs. Quad

Cassette vs. Cartridge

VHS vs. Betamax

MiniDisc vs. DCC

SACD vs. DVD Audio

+R +RW vs. -R -RW

PAL vs. SECAM vs. NTSC

the list goes on...