Chamber Music on Valentia featuring Seán Ó Dálaigh installation

18 August 2018 13:00

The Lighthouse

edg(tid)e - sound installation + performance.

In response to the work of Marine Biologist, Maude Delap and photography by Brian Stone.
 
Edge is imagined here as the liminality of tide where land and sea meet creating a cacophony of critters for the senses, like the "heroic jumble of books, specimens, aquaria, with its pervasive low-tide smell", described by Maude Delap's nephew in response to his experience of her laboratory.
Maude Delap was a self taught marine biologist from Valentia Island in County Kerry, Ireland. She was the first person to successfully breed jellyfish in captivity in her homemade laboratory. 
The work takes the form of a sound installation with photography by Brian Stone. The sound track is made up of processed field recordings from on Valentia and in the surrounding waters. These undergo fragmentation and re-synthesis to create and entanglement of the under and overwater materials. The installation is a 4 hour performance where the composer interacts with the soundtrack live using electric guitar, violin and objects. ​

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Venue

The Lighthouse

Valentia Island
Co. Kerry
Ireland

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