HRSE Augmented Vocality: 'Recomposing the Sounds of Early Irish and Old Norse' featuring music by Jane O’Leary, Áine Mallon & Ryan Molloy

Part of the Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble 10th Season.

Augmented Vocality: ‘Recomposing the Sounds of Early Irish and Old Norse’ proposes a novel programme of practice-based research and a methodology to analyse and explore the sounds of early medieval languages. Combining linguistic expertise with sophisticated voice processing technologies, the project aims to give new life to early languages and help reclaim the oral quality at the heart of medieval literature. Break no more my heart today, a newly commissioned work from composer Edmund Hunt, explores this territory using the Hard Rain forces with voice and electronics as a powerful tool to develop new insights and to reanimate texts from early languages well beyond the field of literary studies. His work focuses on two linguistic corpora, Old and Middle Irish and Old Norse - both chosen for their particular sonic qualities and the richness of the surviving texts. As a prelude to this new work we present a variety of works by Irish and Scottish composers that in some way also connect with the Gaelic world or that explore a sound-world somehow in sympathy with it.

Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble is a PRS Foundation Talent Development Partner supported by PPL. They are supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and are Ensemble in Residence at Queen's University Belfast. 

Programme

Jane O’Leary (1946)- Beneath the dark blue waves* (2019) flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello & piano

Áine Mallon (1994) - Cállan (2021) violoncello & piano

Pàdruig Morrison (1996) - Caoin Leth-Challtach (1st Prize 4th Peter Rosser Composition Award 2019) flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello & piano

Peter O’Doherty (1973) - Fioriture (2021) solo flute

Amelia Clarkson (1995) - I AM LEDA (2021) [World Premiere] flute, clarinet, violin & violoncello

Ryan Molloy (1983) - Gortnagarn II* alto flute, bass clarinet, violin, violoncello & piano

Edmund Hunt (1983) - Break no more my heart today** (2021 – 22) [World Premiere] flute, clarinet, violin,
violoncello, piano, sop voice, bass voice and electronics

*Commissioned by HRSE with funding from ACNI

**Commissioned with AHRC Funding

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