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Ensemble Mosiak performing Veiled Babble from balcony.
CURRENT/RECENT
Karen performing @Makeitup Club, Melbourne, Australia.
FUTURE
Recording in Berlin Bunkers, Germany for Once Below Installation.
PAST
 

Current/Recent Performances:

31/01/2025
10/01/2025
02/11/2024
01/11/2024
13/10/2024
01/10/2024 - 02/10/2024
20/09/2024
18/09/2024.
15/08/2024 - 31/08/2024
01/08/2024 - 04/08/2024
13/07/2024
12/07/2024
12/07/2024
07/06/2024 - 14/06/2024
16/05/2024
12/05/2024
11/05/2024
09/05/2024
05/05/2024​
25/04/2024
20/04/2024
12/04/2024
26/03/2024
25/03/2024
24/03/2024
02/03/2024 - 27/04/2024
21/02/2024
21/11/2023
16/11/2023
11/11/2023
26/10/2023

26/10/2023
23/10/2023
13/10/2023

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06/10/2023
14/09/23 - 16/09/23
19/08/2023
22/06/2023
03/06/2023
23/04/2023
23/04/2023

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20/01/2023
02/09/2022 - 03/09/2022
28/07/2022

​29/06/2022

02/05/2022
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07/04/2022
Entr'acte - Sound Art Quartet perform @ FUAIM, Cork, Ireland.
​Entr’acte is: John Godfrey (former Crash Ensemble, Quiet Music Ensemble, Composer/Improvisor), Irene Murphy (Diatribe label, Domestic Godless), Mick O’ Shea (Quiet Club, Strange Attractor, Domestic Godless) and Karen Power (Internationally renowned composer/sound artist + creative field recordist).
Sounding the Hidden (at the NLI) - a co-created composition by inclusive ensemble to be added to the NLI National Collections.
Led by composer Karen Power, the ensemble is made up of a group of ten musicians - five living with intellectual disabilities and five students of the Royal Irish Academy of Music (RIAM). The composition incorporates sounds that capture the distinctive hidden + audible sounds of the National Library of Ireland. 
Duration: 10'00'' 
sonic cradle (2016) - @ANIMA MUNDI #5, Gorzów, MOS, Poland
for Violin, Arctic Ice (stereo sound) + projected still imagery - performed by Larissa O' Grady
​Zeitgeist Ireland event

sonic cradle (2016) - @ANIMA MUNDI #5, Errant Sound, Berlin
for Violin, Arctic Ice (stereo sound) + projected still imagery - performed by 
Larissa O' Grady
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​Zeitgeist Ireland event
Human Nature No. 7 - Bats of Namibia @ The Guesthouse, Cork.
for single human and nature performed by John Godfrey (Electric Guitar)Part of the Music of Today. 𝗢𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘃𝘀𝗸𝗮́ 𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮 in Ireland
Time to Listen Conference @ AdK, Berlin
The Arctic speaks through time (2024) - unedited field recordings from The Arctic Residency by Karen Power
hearspace (2014) -radio art piece @ Seanaps Festival - https://seanaps.net/2024/radio
Listening under Carlingford Lough (2024) - sound piece performed as part of Shifting Tides Culture Night Program
Arctic Circle Residency - 2 weeks in the high Arctic field recording 
Shifting Tides Project: unearthing sound beneath Carlingford Lough
A workshop and podcast piece on underwater findings in Carlingford Lough. 
Human Nature no 3 @ RAMP Festival
Lina Andonovsaka performs dusk birdscape in Northern Territories (2020)
CD Release: ...we return to ground... CD Release @ Heroines of Sound Festival
with Quiet Music Ensemble from Other Minds
July 12, 2024 as a double CD and digital download

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https://othermindsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/we-return-to-ground

SAN FRANCISCO—June 25, 2024—Other Minds is pleased to present …we return to ground…, a new recording by Irish composer Karen Power and Quiet Music Ensemble. This double CD features three of Power’s large-scale pieces pairing natural sounds with musical instruments, written for and with Quiet Music Ensemble over an 8-year period.
Beginning with instruments of ice in 2015, Power's experience of pairing natural sounds with musical instruments has evolved into a transformative body of work. Her approach to composition, creating space for interactions between field recordings and human performers, allows for the emergence of new sonic dialogues with the natural world. In his liner notes, David Toop writes, “What we are hearing is not reducible to 'music' and 'nature'; there is an acknowledgement that the senses are not separate. They are fluid, sometimes interchangeable in their perception of worlds, and those worlds overlap, become each other.”
Power's approach to scoring reflects her belief in the diverse ways of experiencing music and sound. Her works build on the long-standing traditions of graphic, text, and even video scores while in pursuit of a new kind of score for the ear, what she calls an aural score. An aural score is similar to a tape part, but differs in that it functions as both materials for the audience to listen to and materials to guide the performers.

This approach to scoring benefits from Power’s deep collaborations with Quiet Music Ensemble. She credits these works as being “uniquely shaped by QME and written knowing and trusting their ears and interpretative skills.” Through this collaboration with Quiet Music Ensemble, Power invites listeners to immerse themselves in unique sonic ecosystems, offering time and space for individual interpretation and exploration.

…we return to ground… will be available on July 12, 2024 as a double CD and as a digital download. The album is available directly from Other Minds, our Bandcamp page, all major digital music outlets, and through our distributors The Business (USA) and SoundOhm (EU).
...we return to ground...(2022) - ​@ Heroines of Sound Festival, Berlin
 Quiet Music Ensemble, re-composed field recordings + electronics, water instrument, dance and film. 
-  in collaboration with Mary Nunan (dance) + Atoosa pour Hosseini (film)
Cicada double brood field recording trip in Illinois, USA
@Illinois State University 11/06/2024 - sound walk, talk + performance 
13/06/2024 - performance with Cicadas with David Rothenberg + guests
can you hear me now??? (2019) - amended for sextet version for Stone Drawn Circles Ensemble @ Cresent Arts Centre, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
can you hear me now??? (2019) - amended for sextet version for Stone Drawn Circles Ensemble @ Hugh Lane Art Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
can you hear me now??? (2019) - amended for sextet version for Stone Drawn Circles Ensemble @ Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, Ireland.
can you hear me now??? (2019) - amended for sextet version for Stone Drawn Circles Ensemble @ Glór, Ennis, Ireland.
human nature series (2020) - no. 1 + 17 @ Guts'n'faders "Mensch - Natur - Klang"
Wieskapelle, Graz, Austria.
can you hear me now??? (2019) - amended for sextet version for Stone Drawn Circles Ensemble @ New Music Dublin Festival, NCH, Ireland
wondrous worlds within/without (2024) - 8 channel sound installation @ Reach’24 Sustainability Art Festival, Belfast, Northern Ireland
18/04/24 - 20/04/24 
Entr'acte - Sound Art Quartet Performance in response to wondrous worlds within/without (2024) @ Sirius Arts Centre

Entr'acte:

John Godfrey (extended electric guitar)
Karen Power (field recordings, amplified objects + projections)
​Mick O’ Shea (built instruments + electronics)
Irene Murphy (acoustic + amplified objects)
Human Nature Series No. 1-4 @ Versipel New Music Soundscape Festival, New Orleans, USA https://versipel.org/season-x-23-24/
Sonic Cradle (2015) - for viola and Arctic Ice - stereo tape + video @ Arctic Science Summit Week, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Performed by Katherine Wren (viola)
https://events.humanitix.com/assw-arts-plenary
Human Nature Series @ Éiríocht: New Music from Ireland.
Silent Green, Berlin, Germany

Performers: LIna Andonovsaka (Bass Flute) + Dermot Dunne (Accordian) 
wondrous worlds within/without (2024) - 8 channel sound installation @ Sirius Arts Centre, Cork.
Opening 02/03/2024 - Closing 27/04/2024
Solitaire (2023) - @ IFI, Dublin.
An expérimental film by Maximilian le Cain with sound by Karen Power
can you hear me now??? (2019) - amended for sextet version premier for Stone Drawn Circles for HCMF Festival, 2023.
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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/
Solitaire (2023) - Premiere @ Cork International Film Festival, The Triskel Arts Centre, Cork @ 8:30pm
An expérimental film by Maximilian le Cain with sound by Karen Power
...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
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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)
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...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.
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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''
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Graphic light score extract from ...we return to ground...KPower
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wondrous worlds within/without (2024) 
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Entr'acte Sound Art Quartet
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Karen recording a floating glacier in Antarctica - photo by John Godfrey
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language land sea (2023) with Lore Lixenberg
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National Symphony Orchestra, KPower + J.Cottis @ ...nature calls... Premier - photo by J.Godfrey
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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

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Jane Rigler (Flute) playing No 10 'if trees has bellies' on location - extracted from video.
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...we return to ground...(2022) image of opening water instruments by Karen Power - photo by lookalive.ie
22/01/2022
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
17/12/2021
...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
instruments of ice (2015) - (New large ensemble version Ensemble of Ice for Improvising Ensemble) performed @ The Cube, Virginia, USA
21/10/2021
sonic cradle (2016) - for violin/viola,  Arctic ice and projected photographs - Performed by Katherine Wren (Viola) @ Sound Scotland Festival
13/09/2021 - 11/10/2021
Airy Sound Art Artist in Residence, Västernorrland, Sweden - field recording in Sweden's oldest forests
01/09/2021
bog songs (2021) - for Ensemble LUX:NM - for 6 instruments, expanded instruments + bog sounds - premiered by LUX:NM @ Kesselhaus, Berlin.
12/08/2021 - 16/08/2021
here comes another one (2011) - for amplified violin + live electronics - performed by Darragh Morgan @ New Music Gathering, USA. - Streamed concert 
12/05/2021
...when one duck leaves the row...(2021) - for ensemble, video and quadraphonic tape - for Ensemble Mosiak - video recording for streaming
17/12/2020
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
Veiled Borders Quartet - improvised network performance @ ElectroAcoustic Barn Dance, USA - online
​Karen Power, Jane Rigler, Thomas Cuifo + John Godfrey
18/09/2020
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''
04/09/2020
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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Retro Disco ...let the current take us...
Lange//Berwick//Lorenz
...let the current take us....
No Man's Land (2020) performance with Michelle O' Rourke.
 
Future Performances:

2024
New Interactive Sound Installation Work for/with Early Years @ Sirius Arts Centre
2024 - 2026
Series of new co-creative works in collaboration with RIAM, 

machine chatter (2018) group field recording for piece with Share Music.
Gorging Limpet (2013) - collaboration with Max Le Cain.
Field Recording in The Arctic - above, inside + below the ice.
Sonar Quartet performing here not here (2016)
 
Past Performances: (grouped by year / only back 5 years)
2020
28/02/2020 - 21/09/2020
No Man's Land (2020) 8 channel Sound Installation @ The Model, Sligo, Ireland
The Sea Around Us Exhibition
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
22/04/2020
Veiled Borders Quartet - improvised network performance @ Earth Day Art Model, Indiana, USA.
​Karen Power, Jane Rigler, Thomas Cuifo + John Godfrey
15/04/2020
Instruments of Ice (2015) (New large ensemble version Ensemble of Ice) performed @ The Cube, Virginia Tech, USA
08/02/2020 - 07/03/2020
…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''
29/02/2020
No Man's Land (2020) premier @The Model, Sligo, Ireland - Exhibition Opening
​Michelle O' Rourke - Voice / Karen Power - live electronics / Quadraphonic sea - 25’00''
2019

12/12/2019
a delicious state of being (2016) @ Queen's University Belfast Concert Series
Bass Flutist Jane Rigler (USA) + Tape 
08/12/2019
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)
01/11/2019
wind illusion (for Pauline) (2016)@ Sound Plasma Festival, Berlin
Erik Drescher Glissando Flute + Quadraphonic Tape (composed wind)
31/10/2019
Veiled Borders Quartet premier improvised performance @ ISSTA, Cork, Ireland
Jane Rigler, John Godfrey, Karen Power and Thomas Ciufo
24/10/2019
Tree Flute (2018/19) @ Sonic Arts Research Centre, Belfast
Carla Rees Baroque Flute + Quadraphonic Tape (composed wind through trees)
16/10/2019
Tree Flute (2018/19) @ London City University.
Carla Rees Baroque Flute + Quadraphonic Tape (composed wind through trees)
12/10/2019
Tree Flute (2018/19) Premier @ Iklectik, London
Carla Rees Baroque Flute + Quadraphonic Tape (composed wind through trees)
14/09/2019
...let the current take us...(2018) @ MusikFestival Bern
Retro Disco - Samuel Stoll (Horn), Simone Keller (Piano), Moritz Mullenbach (Cello) + Quadraphonic Tape (composed sea) + video.
10/09/2019
here not here (2016) @ BKA Theatre, Berlin - Unheard Series
Sonar Quartet + Quadraphonic Tape 
16-18/08/2019
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)
July, 2019
Field Recording in Living Namib Desert
19-22/06/2019
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
12/04/2019
...let the current take us...(2019) Premier @ Music Current Festival
Retro Disco Trio + Quadraphonic Tape (sea) + Video
28/02/2019 - 03/03/2019
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)
24/02/2019
here not here (2016) @ Villa Elisabeth Concert Hall
​Sonar Quartet + Quadraphonic Tape
08/02/2019
machine chatter (2018) @ Lund Contemporary Music Festival
Gageego Ensemble/Share Music inclusive ensemble + Tape + Objects
30/01/2019
sounds like the amazon...(2017) @ Reel Lives Concert Series
8 Channel version
2018

15/11/2018
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)

13/11/2018
Antler (2018) Premier @ Cork International Film Festival - Collaboration led by Atoosa Pour Hossieni
EFS Production
09/11/2018
machine chatter (2018) - site specific performance @ Hang On Factory - source of original recordings, Sweden
Gageego/Share Music Elefantora + tape + objects.
22/10/2018
sounds like the amazon...(2017) + outside voice inside (2018) @ Labor Sonor
Cathy Milliken (Oboe) + Quadraphonic Installation - modular style pieces that fit inside each other
20 - 21 / 09/2018
Voices from Hidden Places (2018) - Premier @ BAM Festival, Berlin.
Ensemble Mosiak - soloists
Ute Wassermann - vocalist
John Godfrey - imagery
21/09/2018
sonic pollinators (2017) @ Birr Theatre, Culture Night, Ireland.
Quiet Music Ensemble + Quadraphonic Tape (Bees)
July, 2018
Feld Recording Trip to Garik Gunig Barlu, Northern Territories, Australia
19/05/2018
hearing leaves (2013) @ ISCM 2018, Beijing, China
​Ensemble Modern String Quartet
05/05/2018
loaded silence (2015) @ The Issue Room, New York
Isabelle O' Connell (prepared piano) + Arctic Ice (tape)
26/04/2018
machine chatter (2018) - premier performance @ Gothenburg, Sweden
Gageego/Share Music Elefantora + tape + objects.
March 2018
Field Recording Trip to Nevada Desert, USA.
12-16/03/2018
deafening silence (2014) @ Finding a Voice Festival + in Paris 
Isabelle O' Connell (piano) + crickets (tape) with optional audience plants
16/01/2018
wind illusions (for Pauline) @ BKA Theatre, Berlin Unheard Concert Series
 2017

Nov, 2017
quack moo sigh (2015) @UCC Concert Series, Ireland
​Thomas Buckner (Baritone) + Tape
Oct, 2017
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)
July 2017
allusion illusion delusion (2017) @UpToThree, Ensemble Mosiak 20th Anniversary Festival, Berlin, Germany
Ernst Surberg (Synthesiser) + Laptop Duo with Karen Power
June 2017
sounds like the amazon...(2017) @ Cork Midsummer Festival 
14 channel premier performances @ The Granary Theatre, Cork.
May 2017
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
April 2017
sounds like...(2017) @ZeitRaume Basel - Biennale fur neue Musik und Architektur
Brass Quartet: Samuel Stoll, Adrian Stadeli, Stephen Menotti and Jon Roskilly
March 2017
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
sounding water (2015) @TransX Symposium, Toronto, Canada
Live performance by Karen Power
Jan, 2017
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
2016

Nov, 2016
sonic cradle (2016) Tour of Switzerland
Tzara Ensemble: Violin, Arctic Ice (tape) + Projected Photographs
Oct, 2016
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
Sept, 2016
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
July 2016
Field Recording Trip to The Amazon Rainforest 
June 2016
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
March 2016
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
Feb, 2016
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)
Jan, 2016
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
2015

Nov, 2015
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)
Oct, 2015
deafening silence (2014) @EMU Festival
Sept, 2015
once below (2015) Radio Version @Deutschlandradio Kultur
sounding water (2015) @Kontakte Festival, AdK, Berlin
live performance by Karen Power
Aug, 2015
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
May 2015
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

Jan, 2015
Inside the Arctic Ice (2014) @Whitehorses Art Gallery, Yukon, Canada
North of Myth by Joyce Majiski / Sound by Karen Power

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