Extracts from select Compositions by Karen Power
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Opera
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TOUCH - a Micro Opera for Video - for MS + B, 10-piece Orchestra, Soundscape + Imagery - 5'48''
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no chaos only organised panic - for orchestra + live electronics (field recordings) - 12'40''
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Music Theatre/Performance Installation/Wordless Opera
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Invitation to Wander - for ensemble, quadraphonic soundscapes, 4-roomed building, singers, projections + sound choir - 90'00''
Imagery by John Godfrey + Karen Power (Arctic only) |
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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 |
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Large Ensemble
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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. |
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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
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Instruments of ice - for small ensemble, quad arctic ice + photographs - 40'00''
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hearing leaves - for string quartet - 13'30''
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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''
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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''
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Solo/Duo
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quack moo sigh - for voice + tape - 16'00''
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where lost weight is found - for piano, tape + live electronics - 16'30''
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loaded silence - for piano + ice - 14'30''
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outside voice inside - for oboe + Amazon rainforest - 13'30''
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sonic cradle - for amplified violin, photographs + Arctic Ice - 12'30''
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Radio Art
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HearSpace - interactive radio art with set and live components - 32'00''
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Is This On??? - site-specific Radio Art piece @ Cork City Gaol - 36’00''
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Installation |
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location location location - 8 channel sound installation with multiple projected photographs by John Godfrey + light - 60'00''
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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''
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shaped by place and time - 6 channel sound installation for inside + outside - with live performance component if outside - 40'00''
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Cross-Arts Collaboration
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Gorging Limpet - sound, film, projection and performance collaboration with Max le Cain - 60'00''
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Once Upon a Space - a sound + movement/dance collaboration with Mary Nunan - 25'00''
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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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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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