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Extracts from select Compositions by Karen Power

Opera
Orchestral Scores
Orchestral
Music Theatre/ Wordless Opera
Large Ensemble
Small Ensemble
Solo/Duo
Radio Art
Installations
Cross Arts Collaborations
CD Releases
 
Opera

TOUCH - a Micro Opera for Video - for MS + B, 10-piece Orchestra, Soundscape + Imagery - 5'48''
 

Orchestral


no chaos only organised panic - for orchestra + live electronics (field recordings) - 12'40''


 
Music Theatre/Performance Installation/Wordless Opera

Invitation to Wander - for ensemble, quadraphonic soundscapes, 4-roomed building, singers, projections + sound choir - 90'00''
Imagery by John Godfrey + Karen Power (Arctic only)
Voices from Hidden Places - for ensemble soloists, 2-roomed building with outdoor connecting space, quadraphonic soundscapes + projections - 80'00''
Photography/Imagery by John Godfrey + Karen Power
 
Large Ensemble

cold or hot bean slurper - for large ensemble - 13'00''
Premiered and written for Ensemble MiseEn
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veiled babble - for large ensemble + quad River Spree - 28'40''

veiled babble (2015) - 5 minute extract of 28'40'' work. Composed for Ensemble Mosaik + Premiered @ Ultraschall Festival 2016.

pink fluffy alarmetts still sound - for large ensemble - 10'00''

pink fluffy alarmists still sound (2010) by Karen Power - for large ensemble written for and workshopped by Alarm Will Sound, UC Davis, USA. Duration: 10'00''

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Small Ensemble

Instruments of ice - for small ensemble, quad arctic ice + photographs - 40'00''


hearing leaves - for string quartet - 13'30''




sonic pollinators - for small ensemble + quad bees/pollinators - 40'00''
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...where foreigners meet... - for synthesiser trio + quad natural soundscape - 15'00''


here not here - for string quartet + quad soundscape - 25'00''

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...let the current take us... - for trio, quad sea location + video - 20'00''
 
Solo/Duo

quack moo sigh - for voice + tape - 16'00''
where lost weight is found - for piano, tape + live electronics - 16'30''


loaded silence - for piano + ice - 14'30''

outside voice inside - for oboe + Amazon rainforest - 13'30''
karenpower · Outside Voice Inside (2018) + sounds like the Amazon (2017)

sonic cradle - for amplified violin, photographs + Arctic Ice - 12'30''
karenpower · Sonic Cradle (2015) Extract by K.Power, performed by B.Luneburg
 
Radio Art

HearSpace - interactive radio art with set and live components - 32'00''

Is This On??? - site-specific Radio Art piece @ Cork City Gaol - 36’00''
 

Installation


location location location - 8 channel sound installation with multiple projected photographs by John Godfrey + light - 60'00''

once below - site specific inner/outer 10 channel installation @ Kapelle der Versöhnung, Berlin with 4 solo instruments - 60'00''

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sounds like the amazon... - 8 channel surround + 6 small portable sound - 38'00''


shaped by place and time - 6 channel sound installation for inside + outside - with live performance component if outside - 40'00''
 
Cross-Arts Collaboration

Gorging Limpet - sound, film, projection and performance collaboration with Max le Cain - 60'00''

Once Upon a Space - a sound + movement/dance collaboration with Mary Nunan - 25'00''

Dreamlives of Debris - a text (extract from novel), sound + video collaboration with writer Lance Olsen + video by Andi Olsen - 24'00''

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CD Releases

is it raining while you listen by Karen Power - 1st solo CD of acoustic and electroacoustic compositions released by Farpoint Recordings in 2014

Purchase Here www.farpointrecordings.com/product-page/karen-power-is-it-raining-while-you-listen

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human nature by Karen Power - online release only by Karen Power - 18 micro duets between human and nature - released 04/09/2020

PURCHASE HERE composerkarenpower.bandcamp.com/album/human-nature


Irish Times TOP FIVE CLASSICAL ALBUMS of 2020: human nature NO. 3
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/karen-power-human-nature-review-a-kind-of-magic-carpet-1.4355311 - 5 STARS


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