CRASH WORKS Open Call 2025
Crash Works is an initiative to support the artistic and professional development of music creators at pivotal stages of their careers looking to engage with Crash and the world of contemporary classical music, offered in partnership with New Music Dublin, Crash Ensemble musicians & our team of creative minds.
CRASH WORKS 2025 OPEN CALL
5 music creators will be selected to undertake a Crash Works Residency over a 2-year period from 2026-2027.
Crash Works is a development hub to meet the needs of emerging musical artists in the 21st century. We will share our knowledge of the sector with you, encouraging play and experimentation and exploring and supporting new ways of creating music.
We want to fully support the creative process allowing time for thinking, creating, collaborating, investigating and re-defining what it is to be a music creator.
Each creator is individual and so too will be the shape of the work they want to create. We want to create music in a different way and to explore new ideas, new sounds and new music.
READ MORE ABOUT CRASH WORKS AND HOW TO APPLY HERE OR WATCH THIS VIDEO
Who can apply?
- Crash Works is open to music creators at pivotal stages of their careers who identify music as a key part of their practice.
- It is open to music creators working across all genres of music. We will endeavour to provide support to a cross section of music creators identifying with differing genres.
- Music creators born in or resident in Ireland.
- For this round of Crash Works, we particularly welcome applications from neurodivergent creators, alongside applicants from all backgrounds.
Crash Ensemble and New Music Dublin are committed to policies supporting equality and inclusion and we welcome and encourage applications representative of the ten characteristics as outlined in our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion policy - age, disability, gender, marital/ civil status, family status, race, religion/politics, sexual orientation, membership of the travelling community and socio-economic status.
5 music creators will be selected based on proposals submitted and examples of work.
Watch our Crash Works highlights video HERE
PAST CRASH WORKS CREATORS
Crash Works II Creators (2024-2025)
Tim Doyle
Aoife King
Aleksandr Nisse
Cathal O'Riordan
Lara Weaver
Crash Works II premiered at New Music Dublin Festival in April 2025 at the National Concert Hall, Dublin.
Alongside Crash Works 2024-25, music creators Maeve Kelly, Jenn Kirby, Elle Wadding, Dani Larkin, Neil O'Connor, Michael Sullivan and Paul Scully created a 3-minute Postcard Piece for Crash Ensemble. These works premiered at Kilkenny Arts Festival in 2024. Crash commissioned Filmmaker-in-Residence Laura Sheeran to create accompanying visuals that beautifully interweave live visual stories with each piece. The films were shown at New Music Dublin Festival, Open Ear Festival, Kilkenny Arts Festival and Sounds From a Safe Harbour Festival in 2025.
Multimedia artist Celsey McFadden was commissioned to create visuals to accompany the Postcard pieces. Using cutting-edge AI technologies to craft visuals that resonate with the themes of the music Celsey's videos premiered online in January 2025 on RTE Culture.
Crash Works I Creators (2022-2023)
Laura Hyland
Anselm McDonnell
Una Monaghan
Amy Rooney
Yue Song
Crash Works I premiered at New Music Dublin Festival in April 2023 at the National Concert Hall, Dublin.
Alongside Crash Works 2022-23, music creators Amelia Clarkson, Jacqueline Fletcher, Richard Hughes and Aleksandr Nisse created a 2-minute Postcard Piece for Crash Ensemble. These works premiered at venues nationwide in 2022 as part of our national tour at venues across Ireland.
Crash Works II album out now!
Programme notes
Crash Ensemble
Tim Doyle
Aoife King
Aleksandr Nisse
Cathal O'Riordan
Lara Weaver
Recorded live at the National Concert Hall Dublin at New Music Dublin Festival 2025.
