Bottlenote Festival artists
Seán Carpio // guitar, no-input mixing desk
Born 1979 in Arequipa, Peru, and based in, Dublin, Ireland Seán Carpio is a multi-instrumentalist whose practice incorporates song, sound and improvisation. Since 2005 he has been active as a soloist in Europe and the USA, and to this date has featured on sixteen recordings. Sean has collaborated with visual artists and practices in a number of contemporary art contexts and has performed, exhibited and undertaken residencies in a number of prestigious art venues including the Mattress Factory Art Museum in Pittsburgh, the Serpentine Gallery London, the MAC Belfast, Netwerk Centre for Contemporary Art Aalst, the Banff Centre Alberta, and the Model Arts Centre Sligo. Since 2006 he has been a member of Project Catalyst, an initiative to present contemporary art to new and future audiences and through this initiative has premiered three newly commissioned suites of music. In 2013 he released his first album WoWos, “a determinist streak of nature loving excitability” (DIY Mag).
Seán graduated with honours from the Newpark Music Centre, Dublin in 2002 receiving a diploma in performance and arranging from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London. He subsequently lectured for three years on the Bachelors course at the Newpark Music Centre focusing on instrumental and improvisation classes. In 2004 Seán was a student of Sri T.A.S Mani in Bangalore, India, where he studied Carnatic percussion and theory intensely for three months. He was awarded the Young Irish Musician of the Year at the Cork Guinness Jazz Festival in 2006.
“Seán Carpio may be the finest drummer ever produced here” – The Irish Times.
