Tickets £30 // Under 30 £6
Advance booking required

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Crash Ensemble:

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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

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Ann Cleare (Ireland, 1983)
TERRARIUM (2024) 65’ UK Premiere

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// supported by Culture Ireland; also supported by 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

Photo credit: Rich Gilligan

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