Kieron Maguire is a composer, producer and founder of The Cabinet of Living Cinema. He composes for theatre and film using viola, guitar and loop-pedals to build up layers of melody, “soundscapes” and live sound-effects. A range of world, folk and electronic music inflects his style as well as a belief in keeping music live, the accidental and semi-improvised being integral elements of his working practice.
He began musical life at Winchester Cathedral Choir, then with bands Perico and Sancho before becoming a solo composer/performer. He has composed and produced for the Paper Cinema (2008-2010), European Theatre Company (Romeo & Juliet, 2010), Future Shorts, BAC, Forest Fringe, NSPCC, The Arches, Glasgow, Tate Britain, The Jewish Museum, Sonja Linden (Ice & Fire), filmmaker Ken McMullen, Roxy Bar and Screen and the Society of Faster Craftswomen.
He founded The Cabinet of Living Cinema in 2010.
A scene from Romeo and Juliet, Naples Theatre Festival, June 2010, score devised and performed by Kieron Maguire (electric guitar, loop pedals)
“Romeo and Juliet, the new show of the European Theatre Company, created in 2008 by the Napoli Teatro Festival Italia, with director Alexander Zeldin and dramaturg Hussein Omar, becomes a multiethnic and multilanguage tragedy, pervaded by the conflicts between fathers and sons, Europeans and immigrants. The young English director succeeds in giving us a realistic portrait of contemporary Europe, and at the same time involves in his metaphor a cast made up of North-african and Middle-eastern actors, Italian immigrants of first and second generation.
The show is designed by George Tsypin and lit by Jean Kalman with music by Kieron Maguire and costumes by Daniela Salernitano and the associate director and voice coach is Barbara Houseman.” (Press Release, Naples Theatre Festival, May, 2010)
Sarah Cuddon, Kieron Maguire and Nic Beard performing as The Paper Cinema (2008-2010)
Scores devised by Kieron Maguire (flamenco guitar, viola, foley):Night Flyer, King Pest & Lost World. Click here for King Pest
A still from Art + Cinema = Dark Energy (films by Ken McMullen, live scores by Kieron Maguire, April, 2008)
A still from East & West (1923, Sidney Goldin), a silent Yiddish film. Live score commissioned by the Jewish Museum, 2010 and performed by Kieron Maguire (guitar, viola) and Zac Gvirtzman (accordion, clarinet).
A still from Faust (Jan Svankmajer), live score commissioned by Roxy Bar & Screen, 2007.
Commissioned by Roxy Bar & Screen to score Jan Svankmajer’s surrealist masterpiece. Devised and performed by Kieron Maguire, Sandy Bartai and Chris Reed.
Recent Projects
NSPCC documentary (clips on Media) on parenting (soundtrack), September, 2011
The Man Who Became a Room, live score (theatre), January, 2012
Kieron worked with his father, Jack Maguire and Zac Gvirtzman on a live score to The Man Who Became a Room, a reading inspired by Rachel Lichenstein/ Iain Sinclair’s best-seller “Rodinsky’s Room” and produced by Sonja Linden.