hcmf//: Crash Ensemble 'Terrarium'

Photo credit: Rich Gilligan

Crash Ensemble: Susan Doyle, flute; Leonie Bluett, clarinet; Roddy O’Keeffe, trombone; Barry O’Halpin, electric guitar; Alex Petcu, percussion; Eliza McCarthy, piano / keyboard; Larissa O’Grady, violin; Joanna Mattrey, viola; Kate Ellis, cello; Caimin Gilmore, double bass.

Iain Synnott - production manager
Elise Mollé - audio engineer
Eoin Lennon - lighting
Eóin Murphy - video technician
Laura Sheeran - film / photography / crash bio
Lay of the Land -  tapestry

Siân Cunningham - CEO
Kate Ellis - artistic director
Matt Rafter - ensemble manager
Louise Barker - marketing lead

A sonic and visual immersive experience highlighting the changing geological terrain at Lough Boora, Ireland, TERRARIUM was conceived during Ann Cleare’s time as composer in residence with Crash Ensemble. Created in collaboration with site responsive artists Lay of the Land and videographer and director Laura Sheehan for Crash to perform, the work transports audiences through the specific yet universal touchstones of the Irish boglands to a vanished Mesolithic lake in Lough Boora, County Offaly. These lands are thought to be one of the earliest sites of human activity in Ireland, dated to somewhere between 6800 and 6500 BC.

TERRARIUM will be presented in a multi-layered configuration, generating an experiential environment recalling Boora’s shifting geological terrain, with the accomplished musicians of Crash Ensemble evoking the complex role water has played – and continues to play – in the Irish Midlands. This dynamic setting will situate audiences in a landscape of time, where they can hear, see, and feel the strata of this earth transforming.

Produced by hcmf// as part of The Current Climate; supported by Culture Ireland and Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.

Co-commissioned by Crash Ensemble, November Music and hcmf//.

TERRARIUM is part of the Sounds Now project co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.

Tickets

£0 - 30. Booking via hcmf//