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Current/Recent Performances:
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21/11/2023
11/11/2023
26/10/2023
26/10/2023
23/10/2023
13/10/2023
06/10/2023
14/09/23 - 16/09/23
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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can you hear me now??? (2019) - amended for sextet version premier for Stone Drawn Circles for HCMF Festival, 2023.
Nicole Lizée Peril Earrings (2023) 8’ World Premiere Úna Monaghan In Formation (2023) 10’ World Premiere Karen Power can you hear me now??? (2019) 17’ UK Premiere Cat Hope Landay Sequenzas (2022) 14’ World Premiere https://hcmf.co.uk/programme/stone-drawn-circles/ ...when one duck leaves the row... (2021) for ensemble mosiak, video + composed field recordings (quadraphonic tape)
@ Musik 21 Festival, Hannover, Germany - https://musik21niedersachsen.de/veranstaltung/musik21/musik21festival2023 ...if left to soar on winds wings... (2023) - @ Bludenz New Music Festival, Bludenz.
- for Klangforum Wien + quadraphonic environment Hidden Allure (2016) - 4 channel work diffused @ Elektroakustische Musik, AdK, Berlin, Germany.
Kaum glaublicher Übergang zwischen zwei Welten Konzert mit Werken von Frederic Rzewski, Luc Ferrari, Clara Maïda, Karen Power Ort: Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg 10 ...if left to soar on winds wings... (2023) - @ Wiener Konzertthaus, Mozart Hall, Vienna.
- for Klangforum Wien + quadraphonic environment language land sea @ Aula Maxima, Cork @ UCC FUAIM Series
- A performance installation concert for voice and environments - commissioned by Lore Lixenberg (voice) + devised in collaboration with Lore. ...if left to soar on winds wings... (2023) - premier @ ORF MusikProtokoll Festival, Graz, Austria
- for Klangforum Wien + quadraphonic environment - commissioned by ORF/MusikProtokoll Festival. Sonic Vigil Presents: In Your Own Time And Place: a 3-day celebration of sound art, improvisation + sonic explorations in Cork, Ireland.
Featuring: • the Irish Premiere of Daniel Weintraub’s ground-breaking documentary on Pauline Oliveros • Renowned experimental music group Quiet Music Ensemble • Ireland’s celebrated improvisation duo Quiet Club with saxophonist Cathal Roche • Memory Echo: a short film featuring Pauline Oliveros by Andrew Deutsch • The eleventh iteration of Cork’s unique improvisation marathon, Sonic Vigil. For info Contact: sonicvigil@icloud.com (Karen Power) 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 (2023) @ 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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2024
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New Interactive Sound Installation Work for/with Early Years @ Sirius Arts Centre
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2024 - 2026
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Series of new co-creative works in collaboration with RIAM,
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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.