New Music Dublin 2025: All Earth Once Drowned
The Complex
Featuring: Cherry Smyth, text/spoken word and Decibel Ensemble: Ed Bennett, conducting/electronics; Xenia Pestova Bennett, piano; Kate Ellis, cello; Tom Challenger, sax; Martin Sanderson, trombone; Neil McGovern, sax; Barry O’Halpin, guitar; Damien Harron, percussion; Steve Davis, drums.
Composer Ed Bennett presents a fresh incarnation of his renowned Decibel Ensemble for the premiere of new commission All Earth Once Drowned, to texts by poet Cherry Smyth.
Through a combination of music and spoken word, Bennett’s work addresses some of the most pertinent environmental issues of our time in a collective call for action. Bennett has gathered Irish and UK musicians of international standing into a 10-piece ensemble, to create deeply personal music in response to Smyth’s texts and the wider environmental problems faced by our planet.
Cherry Smyth performs with the ensemble, interweaving her texts throughout this expansive composition, which ranges from music of huge energy and rage to quiet and delicate introspection.
Commissioned by Moving on Music with support from Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
Tour supported by PRS Foundation.
Programme
Ed Bennett - All Earth Once Drowned (texts by Cherry Smyth) (World Premiere)
Tickets
€20. Buses leaving from NCH for ticketholders at 9pm, arriving at the venue - The Complex, Smithfield, Dublin 7 - for performance at 9.30pm.
Tickets at New Music Dublin.