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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human nature series - (2020) - 18 duets between any solo instrument + natural sound
...on location...is a performance video series of 5 pieces from Karen’s Human Nature Series performed + videoed on-location in 5 different types of places that expand the original field recordings and bring an additional site-specific element into these short duets between human + nature. human nature series (2020): 18 new compositions by Irish composer Karen Power, which are tied together through the singular concept of pairing human with nature: 1 musician with 1 un-processed field recording. In 2020 Karen invited 18 musicians from 7 countries across the globe to each remotely listen to and explore musically an un-processed field recording. This has resulted in a CD of 18 new performed compositions recorded in isolation and realised during Covid 19 lockdown. For human nature she chose 18 field recording extracts from thousands of recordings, which she recorded throughout the world between 2012 - 2019. This series features sounds from very special places and the creatures within, some of which you will recognise and others whose sounds are inaudible to the naked ear. For more on the complete series: human nature Digital CD Release: 04/09/2020 - composerkarenpower.bandcamp.com quack moo sigh - for voice + tape - 16'00''
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bats of namibia (2020) performed by John Godfrey on location @ Lackendarra Farm, Co Waterford, Ireland.
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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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