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Current/Recent Performances:
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26/10/2023
08/10/2023
19/08/2023
22/06/2023
03/06/2023
23/04/2023
23/04/2023
20/01/2023
02/09/2022 - 03/09/2022
28/07/2022
29/06/2022
02/05/2022
07/04/2022
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new untitled work - @ Wiener Konzertthaus, Mozart Hall, Vienna.
- for Klangforum Wien + quadraphonic tape new untitled work - premier @ ORF MusikProtokoll Festival, Graz, Austria
- for Klangforum Wien + quadraphonic tape - commissioned by ORF/MusikProtokoll Festival. language land sea @ AdK, Berlin, Germany - Time to Listen Festival
- A performance installation concert for voice and environments - commissioned by Lore Lixenberg (voice) + devised in collaboration with Lore. language land sea @ Solstice Arts Centre, Navan.
- A performance installation concert for voice and environments - commissioned by Lore Lixenberg (voice) + devised in collaboration with Lore. ...we return to ground... @ Sirius Arts Centre, Cork by Quiet Music Ensemble
- for Quiet Music Ensemble, re-composed field recordings + electronics, water instrument, dance and film. Composer in collaboration with Mary Nunan (dance) + Atoosa pour Hosseini (film) ...Antarctica calling...listen... @ Premier @ New Music Dublin by RTÉ Concert Orchestra
A duet for RTÉ Concert Orchestra + Antarctica for Orchestra, composed Antarctica field recordings + projected photographs by John Godfrey. Co-Commissioned by RTÉ Concert Orchestra and New Music Dublin. Supported by an Irish Arts Council Arts Grant ...we return to ground... @ New Music Dublin by Quiet Music Ensemble - National Concert Hall, Dublin.
- for Quiet Music Ensemble, re-composed field recordings + electronics, water instrument, dance and film. Composer in collaboration with Mary Nunan (dance) + Atoosa pour Hosseini (film) ...nature calls... - for RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra + Blackbird - @ National Concert Hall, Dublin, Ireland.
National Symphony Orchestra Jessica Cottis, conductor Leticia Moreno, violin Karen Power …nature calls…for Symphony Orchestra + Blackbird NSO Commission - World Premiere Dvořák Violin Concerto Beethoven Symphony No. 7 Punkt Seminar | curated by David Toop - seminar series as part of Punkt Festival, Norwary. https://punktfestival.no
Human Nature Series - select duets performed by Kirkos Ensemble in Phoenix Park, Ireland - part of Kirkos 10th Anniversary Festival
Human Nature Series...on location... - 5 of the 18 duets to be performed around the world in specific locations. In partnership with Sirius Arts Centre, Ireland. Performers: Samuel Stoll, Jane Rigler, Simone Keller, John Godfrey + Lore Lixenberg.
Radio Art works @ Sonic Matter - 24 hour stream - https://sonicmatter.ch/en/sonic-world/radio
hearspace (2014) - for radio is this on? (2016) - site specific radio human nature series (2020) - 3 pieces once below (2015) - radio version amazonian words (2017) - tape sonic pollinators (2017) + loaded silence (2015) @ Roulette, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Interpretations Series by Mutable Music 4 channel performance with QME (Quiet Music Ensemble) 30'00'' Piano + Ice (Stereo tape) performed by Isabelle O' Connell 13'30'' |
Graphic light score extract from ...we return to ground...KPower
Karen recording a floating glacier in Antarctica - photo by John Godfrey
National Symphony Orchestra, KPower + J.Cottis @ ...nature calls... Premier - photo by J.Godfrey
John Godfrey performing sea stories (2021) on-location @ Sea Caves.
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12/04/2022
16/04/2022
23/04/2022
March 2022 |
sounds like the amazon... (2017) + Human Nature (no 8 + no 19) @ The Nature of Music,
Other Minds Festival, San Francisco, USA 14 channel performance installation 28'00'' John Godfrey (electric guitar) performs Namibian bats + Sea Stories Human Nature Series - Performances + talks @ UCCS (University of Colorado) - John Godfrey + Jane Rigler
...we return to ground... (2022) - for Quiet Music Ensemble in collaboration with Mary Nunan (Dance), Atoosa pour Hosseini (Film) + Underwater life @ The Model, Sligo, Ireland.
Sea Stories (2021) - new expansion of Human Nature Series, a site specific composition for/with Cuas Pier Caves, Ardgroom, Beara, Ireland.
John Godfrey - Electric Guitar Karen Power - concept + field recording |
Jane Rigler (Flute) playing No 10 'if trees has bellies' on location - extracted from video.
...we return to ground...(2022) image of opening water instruments by Karen Power - photo by lookalive.ie
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22/01/2022
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bog songs (2021) - for Ensemble LUX:NM - 6 instruments, expanded instruments + bog sounds - performed @ Radialsystem V, Ultraschall Festival, Germany.
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LUX:NM playing expanded instrument sculptures in bog songs (2021). Photo by J.Godfrey
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17/12/2021
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...adrift yet somehow tethered... - for Ensemble Mosaik - Performance Installation for large ensemble, video, light and soundscapes @ silent green Kulturquartier, Berlin
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08/12/2021
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instruments of ice (2015) - (New large ensemble version Ensemble of Ice for Improvising Ensemble) performed @ The Cube, Virginia, USA
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21/10/2021
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sonic cradle (2016) - for violin/viola, Arctic ice and projected photographs - Performed by Katherine Wren (Viola) @ Sound Scotland Festival
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13/09/2021 - 11/10/2021
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Airy Sound Art Artist in Residence, Västernorrland, Sweden - field recording in Sweden's oldest forests
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01/09/2021
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bog songs (2021) - for Ensemble LUX:NM - for 6 instruments, expanded instruments + bog sounds - premiered by LUX:NM @ Kesselhaus, Berlin.
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12/08/2021 - 16/08/2021
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here comes another one (2011) - for amplified violin + live electronics - performed by Darragh Morgan @ New Music Gathering, USA. - Streamed concert
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12/05/2021
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...when one duck leaves the row...(2021) - for ensemble, video and quadraphonic tape - for Ensemble Mosiak - video recording for streaming
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17/12/2020
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TOUCH (2020) - a micro opera - with text by Ione - Directed by Jo Mangan / Conducted by Fergus Sheil
Naomi Louisa O' Connell (MS), Gyula Nagy (B), RTÉ Concert Orchestra + Quadraphonic SoundScape Online video performance https://www.irishnationalopera.ie/20-shots-of-opera/operas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHIyk_9iGuw&feature=emb_logo |
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30/10/2020
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Veiled Borders Quartet - improvised network performance @ ElectroAcoustic Barn Dance, USA - online
Karen Power, Jane Rigler, Thomas Cuifo + John Godfrey |
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18/09/2020
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No Man's Land (2020) @The Model, Sligo, Ireland - Culture Night Video Screening Performance
Michelle O' Rourke - Voice / Karen Power - live electronics / Quadraphonic Sea-based Tape - 25’00'' |
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04/09/2020
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human nature - CD Digital Release - 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.
composerkarenpower.bandcamp.com |
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Future Performances:
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2023
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New Interactive Installation Work for/with Early Years @ Sirius Arts Centre
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2023
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language land sea - a site specific performance installation for voice and environment - collaboration with Lore Lixenberg
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Past Performances: (grouped by year / only back 5 years)
2020
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28/02/2020 - 21/09/2020
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No Man's Land (2020) 8 channel Sound Installation @ The Model, Sligo, Ireland
The Sea Around Us Exhibition |
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04/07/2020 - 12/07/2020
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Past/Present Suir Songs (2020) @ Clonmel Junctions Arts Festival
6 channel sound installation with light |
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22/04/2020
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Veiled Borders Quartet - improvised network performance @ Earth Day Art Model, Indiana, USA.
Karen Power, Jane Rigler, Thomas Cuifo + John Godfrey |
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15/04/2020
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Instruments of Ice (2015) (New large ensemble version Ensemble of Ice) performed @ The Cube, Virginia Tech, USA
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08/02/2020 - 07/03/2020
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…where foreigners meet...(2019/20) - German Tour - premier @ Eclat Festival, Stuttgart - followed by Berlin, Cologne + Bremen.
Lange//Berwick//Lorenz - 3 synthesisers + quad tape (field recording based) 15’00'' |
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29/02/2020
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No Man's Land (2020) premier @The Model, Sligo, Ireland - Exhibition Opening
Michelle O' Rourke - Voice / Karen Power - live electronics / Quadraphonic sea - 25’00'' |
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2019
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12/12/2019
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a delicious state of being (2016) @ Queen's University Belfast Concert Series
Bass Flutist Jane Rigler (USA) + Tape |
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08/12/2019
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can you hear me now??? (2019) Premier @ UpToThree Series, AckerStadt Palast, Berlin
Ensemble Mosiak: Ernst Surberg (Synthesiser), Mathis Myer (Cello) + Ute Wassermann (Voice) + Quadraphonic Tape (Field Recording based) |
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01/11/2019
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wind illusion (for Pauline) (2016)@ Sound Plasma Festival, Berlin
Erik Drescher Glissando Flute + Quadraphonic Tape (composed wind) |
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31/10/2019
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Veiled Borders Quartet premier improvised performance @ ISSTA, Cork, Ireland
Jane Rigler, John Godfrey, Karen Power and Thomas Ciufo |
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24/10/2019
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Tree Flute (2018/19) @ Sonic Arts Research Centre, Belfast
Carla Rees Baroque Flute + Quadraphonic Tape (composed wind through trees) |
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16/10/2019
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Tree Flute (2018/19) @ London City University.
Carla Rees Baroque Flute + Quadraphonic Tape (composed wind through trees) |
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12/10/2019
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Tree Flute (2018/19) Premier @ Iklectik, London
Carla Rees Baroque Flute + Quadraphonic Tape (composed wind through trees) |
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14/09/2019
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...let the current take us...(2018) @ MusikFestival Bern
Retro Disco - Samuel Stoll (Horn), Simone Keller (Piano), Moritz Mullenbach (Cello) + Quadraphonic Tape (composed sea) + video. |
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10/09/2019
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here not here (2016) @ BKA Theatre, Berlin - Unheard Series
Sonar Quartet + Quadraphonic Tape |
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16-18/08/2019
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sounds like the amazon...(2017) @ Chamber Music on Valentia Island Festival
4 channel version in Life-Boat Station with live performance by Karen Power deafening silence (2014) Mary Dullea (piano) + stereo tape (crickets) |
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July, 2019
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Field Recording in Living Namib Desert
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19-22/06/2019
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Invitation to Wander (2019) Premier @ Cork Midsummer Festival @ Cork Centre for Architectural Education
Quiet Music Ensemble - ensemble diffused between 4 rooms Ute Wassermann + Michelle O' Rourke - singers John Godfrey - imagery/photographs/proejctions Ann Lawlor - Creative Producer Sound Choir |
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12/04/2019
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...let the current take us...(2019) Premier @ Music Current Festival
Retro Disco Trio + Quadraphonic Tape (sea) + Video |
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28/02/2019 - 03/03/2019
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location location location (2019) Premier @ New Music Dublin Festival
8 channel sound installation, Projections + temporary sound choir John Godfrey - imagery Tonnta - Sound Choir (concept by Karen Power) |
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24/02/2019
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here not here (2016) @ Villa Elisabeth Concert Hall
Sonar Quartet + Quadraphonic Tape |
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08/02/2019
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machine chatter (2018) @ Lund Contemporary Music Festival
Gageego Ensemble/Share Music inclusive ensemble + Tape + Objects |
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30/01/2019
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sounds like the amazon...(2017) @ Reel Lives Concert Series
8 Channel version |
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2018
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15/11/2018
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Kinetics in Blue (2018) - Collaboration with Atoosa pour Hosseini - Opening Premier Performance @The Lab Gallery
Kinetics (2018) film opened Live performance element with Karen Power(sound), Katie O' Neill (performance art) + Atoosa pour Hossieni (projection + film) |
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13/11/2018
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Antler (2018) Premier @ Cork International Film Festival - Collaboration led by Atoosa Pour Hossieni
EFS Production |
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09/11/2018
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machine chatter (2018) - site specific performance @ Hang On Factory - source of original recordings, Sweden
Gageego/Share Music Elefantora + tape + objects. |
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22/10/2018
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sounds like the amazon...(2017) + outside voice inside (2018) @ Labor Sonor
Cathy Milliken (Oboe) + Quadraphonic Installation - modular style pieces that fit inside each other |
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20 - 21 / 09/2018
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Voices from Hidden Places (2018) - Premier @ BAM Festival, Berlin.
Ensemble Mosiak - soloists Ute Wassermann - vocalist John Godfrey - imagery |
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21/09/2018
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sonic pollinators (2017) @ Birr Theatre, Culture Night, Ireland.
Quiet Music Ensemble + Quadraphonic Tape (Bees) |
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July, 2018
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Feld Recording Trip to Garik Gunig Barlu, Northern Territories, Australia
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19/05/2018
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hearing leaves (2013) @ ISCM 2018, Beijing, China
Ensemble Modern String Quartet |
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05/05/2018
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loaded silence (2015) @ The Issue Room, New York
Isabelle O' Connell (prepared piano) + Arctic Ice (tape) |
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26/04/2018
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machine chatter (2018) - premier performance @ Gothenburg, Sweden
Gageego/Share Music Elefantora + tape + objects. |
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March 2018
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Field Recording Trip to Nevada Desert, USA.
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12-16/03/2018
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deafening silence (2014) @ Finding a Voice Festival + in Paris
Isabelle O' Connell (piano) + crickets (tape) with optional audience plants |
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16/01/2018
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wind illusions (for Pauline) @ BKA Theatre, Berlin Unheard Concert Series
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2017
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Nov, 2017
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quack moo sigh (2015) @UCC Concert Series, Ireland
Thomas Buckner (Baritone) + Tape |
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Oct, 2017
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allusion illusion delusion (2017) @The Guesthouse, Cork, Ireland
Ernst Surberg (Synthesiser) + Laptop Duo with Karen Power deafening silence (2014) @ National Sawdust, New York Isabelle O' Connell (piano) + crickets (tape) with optional audience plants sonic pollinators (2017) @ Birr Castle, Clara Bog + Tullamore Arts Centre Quiet Music Ensemble + quadraphonic pollinators (tape) |
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July 2017
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allusion illusion delusion (2017) @UpToThree, Ensemble Mosiak 20th Anniversary Festival, Berlin, Germany
Ernst Surberg (Synthesiser) + Laptop Duo with Karen Power |
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June 2017
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sounds like the amazon...(2017) @ Cork Midsummer Festival
14 channel premier performances @ The Granary Theatre, Cork. |
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May 2017
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Dreamlives of Debris (2016) @There's no place like home Exhibition, Berlin
Stereo reduction of work with video by Andi Olsen / Text by Lance Olsen |
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April 2017
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sounds like...(2017) @ZeitRaume Basel - Biennale fur neue Musik und Architektur
Brass Quartet: Samuel Stoll, Adrian Stadeli, Stephen Menotti and Jon Roskilly |
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March 2017
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Instruments of Ice (2015) @ New Music Dublin
Quiet Music Ensemble + Quadraphonic Arctic Ice (tape + Photographs deafening silence (2014) @SARC, Belfast, UK Isabelle O' Connell (piano) + crickets (tape) with optional audience plants |
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Feb, 2017
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sounding water (2015) @TransX Symposium, Toronto, Canada
Live performance by Karen Power |
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Jan, 2017
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Cloud of Skin (2015) @Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, Ireland
Experimental Film by Max Le Cain /Sound by Karen Power sounding water (2015) @Makeitup Club, Melbourne, Australia Live performance by Karen Power shaped by place and time (2017) @BigCi Residency, NSW, Australia. 6 channel performance installation inside + outside |
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2016
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Nov, 2016
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sonic cradle (2016) Tour of Switzerland
Tzara Ensemble: Violin, Arctic Ice (tape) + Projected Photographs |
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Oct, 2016
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is it raining while you listen (2011) Irish Tour
Hard Rain Soloist Ensemble - Trio quack moo sigh (2015) in Helsinki, Finland Thomas Buckner (Baritone) + Tape here not here (2016) @Sinus Ton Festival, Magdeburg, Germany Sonar Quartet + Quadraphonic Tape is this on???? (2016) + hearspace (2014) @Radio Revolten Festival, Halle, Germany armed only with nuts (2012) in New York, USA Argento Chamber Ensemble those are the dangers of root vegetables (2016) @FLUXUS, Heuston Station Dublin Kirkos Ensemble + live field recordings |
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Sept, 2016
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shaping water water shaping (2016) @The Guesthouse, Cork
Joyce Majiski (visual arts) + Karen Power (sound) deafening silence (2014) @Composing the Island Festival, NCH, Dublin Isabelle O' Connell (piano) + crickets (tape) with optional audience plants Instruments of Ice (2015) @ Kilkenny Castle + Skibbereen Arts Festival Quiet Music Ensemble + Quadraphonic Arctic Ice (tape + Photographs |
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July 2016
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Field Recording Trip to The Amazon Rainforest
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June 2016
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is this on???? (2016) @Cork Midsummer Festival @Cork City Gaol - live RTÉ Radio Broadcast
Listen/Compose/Perform event curated by Karen Power quack moo sigh (2015) @Roulette, Brooklyn as part of Interpretations Series Thomas Buckner (Baritone) + Tape |
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March 2016
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a delicious state of being (2016) @ Unerhorte Musik Series + Brandenburg
Carin Levine (bass flute) + tape Dreamlives of Debris (2016) @DAAD Gallery, Berlin, Germany Lance Olsen (Text), Andi Olsen (Video) + Karen Power (Sound) quack moo sigh (2015) @Four Seasons Arts Festival, USA Thomas Buckner (Baritone) + tape |
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Feb, 2016
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Improvised Performance with Pauline Oliveros + Mazen Kerbaj @ CTM Festival, Berlin, Germany
Pauline Oliveros (expanded accordion), Mazen Kerbaj (expanded trumpet) + Karen Power (expanded field recordings) Instruments of Ice (2015) @Solstice Arts Centre, Ireland Quiet Music Ensemble + Quadraphonic Arctic Ice (tape + Photographs Cloud of Skin (2015) @Bilbao Film Festival Experimental Film by Max Le Cain /Sound by Karen Power Sonic Vigillete @ Ausland, Germany Core members of the Sonic Vigil team from Ireland joined by local musicians Cathy Milliken (Oboe) and Rishin Singh (Trombone) |
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Jan, 2016
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veiled babble (2015/16) @Ultraschall Festival
Ensemble Mosiak + Quadraphonic River Spree (tape) + audience plants sonic cradle (2015/16) @Ultraschall Festival Barbara Luneburg (Amplified Violin), Arctic Ice (tape) + Projected Photographs |
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2015
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Nov, 2015
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sounds of a time and place (2014) @UCC Concert Series, Cork, Ireland
Bozzini Quartet (String Quartet) , quadraphonic tape + live electronics life flow (2015) @Hugging the Walls - A tribute to Terry Fox live performance by Karen Power relocating elk...by train (2011) @SARC, Belfast, UK Carin Levine (Bass Flute) + Tape Cloud of Skin (2015) @ 60th International Cork Film Festival Experimental Film by Max Le Cain /Sound by Karen Power loaded silence (2015) @SARC, Belfast + Dublin Isabelle O' Connell (Piano) + Arctic Ice (Tape) |
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Oct, 2015
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deafening silence (2014) @EMU Festival
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Sept, 2015
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once below (2015) Radio Version @Deutschlandradio Kultur
sounding water (2015) @Kontakte Festival, AdK, Berlin live performance by Karen Power |
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Aug, 2015
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once below (2015) @ MikroMusik Festival, Berlin, Germany
Double sound installation: 10 channels with soloists: Erik Drescher (Flute), Michelle O' Rourke (Voice), Johnny Chang (Viola), Rishin Singh (Trombone) forever rice fields (2014) @Cafe Oto, London |
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May 2015
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Instruments of Ice (2015) @DAAD Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Quiet Music Ensemble + Quadraphonic Arctic Ice (tape + Photographs High Arctic Link (2015) @Wexner Centre for the Arts Tom Snelgrove (Video) Karen Power (Sound) squeeze birds to improve your garden's plant variety (2008) @ Festival Pfingstwerkstatt for Neue Musik, Rheinsberg, Germany. Lower Saxony Youth Ensemble + Tape Inside the Arctic Ice (2014) @Noyes Musem of Art, Stockton, USA. 5.1 sound installation |
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Jan, 2015
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Inside the Arctic Ice (2014) @Whitehorses Art Gallery, Yukon, Canada
North of Myth by Joyce Majiski / Sound by Karen Power |
For Activities before 2015 contact composer.