FUAIM UCC: 'language land sea' by Karen Power featuring Loré Lixenberg

Concept + Composition by Karen Power

for Human: Loré Lixenberg + Nature: Environments 

Multichannel Sound, Video + Live Performance

CMC Composer Karen Power’s language land sea (2023) is a multi-disicplinary paen to the natural world. Conceived for experimental vocalist Loré Lixenberg, the piece creates a sonic, visual and theatrical space. The piece places Loré (singer/performer) in a sonic macro environment, which is composed of multiple real and imagined places. Once inside, Loré and our listening audience are invited to re-hear or reconsider our (human) role on this planet.

lls is built entirely on field recordings made by the composer of heard and unheard sounds from some of the most remote and local environments around the world. It is conceived in response to my realisation that we are increasingly present everywhere, even in the most remote locations on earth. In its simplest ambition, lls creates time and space for us all to ask questions about our what relationship with our planet is? Through a series of sonic and visual cues, we are offered time to listen to our world differently and perhaps appreciate the natural diversity abundant within any ecosystem. We ask you to consider that our ‘footprint’ lasts and infiltrates the life of an ecosystem long after we have departed.  

Presented as part of FUAIM Concert Series at University College Cork. 

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Admission is free, no booking required.