FATIMAPHONE (2006)

From 2005 - 2007, George was involved in the Tower Songs Project, run by the Dublin ,City Arts Centre,. This project sought to artistically document the changes around Dublin, specifically in 5 sets of corporation flat tower complexes scheduled for demolition. His role in the project as a composer was to record audio samples on site in order to create compositions and performances inspired by them. In the 2006 performance, only days before the demolition of the last blocks of the old Fatima Mansions, he contributed the Fatimaphone: a hammer dulcimer he fashioned to model the flat complexes with built-in electronics, connected to 4 speakers made out of steel rubbish bins to be hoisted on pulleys to the top balconies of the flats as the audience moved about the courtyard.