Chamber Music: Bloomsday sound-art piece riffs on Ulysses' urination references
A speaker in one of seven chamber pots - evoking an infamous line in Ulysses and creating a sound-art experience that marks 100 years of Joyce's epic
As James Joyce's Ulysses reaches the landmark 100th anniversary of its first publication on Thursday - Bloomsday - it dawns on you exactly how influential the labyrinthine tale of a drunken day out in Dublin has been, its turns of phrase and immortal quotables emerging and being referenced across art, media and entertainment.
For sound-artist Danny MacCarthy, hailing from Mallow and boasting a decades-long body of international work, it's been a near-lifelong love affair with the great writer's words, from his debut exhibition 'Who Killed James Joyce?', to participatory public art. One line has stayed with McCarthy in particular: Leopold Bloom's comparison of the distant sound of his wife Molly's use of the chamber pot to the sound of chamber music.
