Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble: 'Songs of Travel' Hashtag Ensemble Collaborations
Harty Room, Queen’s University
'Songs of Travel' is a Creative Europe Cooperation Project that aims to raise awareness and foster empathy for climate change and migration through music. In collaboration with the Austrian game developers Causa Creations, Elaine Agnew composed the specifically curated soundtrack for 'Songs of Travel', an interactive graphic novel that explores various aspects of and collectively paints a vivid picture of the topic of migration through the personal stories of five individuals as they fled their troubled homelands of Syria, Vietnam, Italy, Turkey and Ukraine in search of new beginnings in Europe.
Premiered at Music for Galway’s 2024 Cellissimo Festival with the original soundtrack performed live against a large-scale projection of the visual novel, 'Songs of Travel' was then performed in Sweden (Fairplay Chamber Music), Norway (Valdres Sommersymfoni), the Netherlands (Piano Biënnale) and most recently featured as part of an exhibition Substanz at the Künstlerhaus Gallery in Vienna.
Programme
Songs of Travel (2024)* - Elaine Agnew (1967) clarinet (bass clarinet), violin, violoncello, piano, percussion.
Tickets
Free admission.