ireland england by Sean Clancy
Lasting the duration of my regular flight between Dublin and Birmingham, Ireland england is an extended drone-based work for analog synthesizers and projected text. Through the marriage of continuous focused sound, statistical texts, and defamiliarisation, this work calls attention to the diverse range of journeys that Irish people have undertaken to England, both historically and in more recent times.
The work was toured around the UK in 2018 by Seán Clancy supported by Culture Ireland’s GB18 Promoting Irish Arts in Britain scheme. It was performed in Brighton, Birmingham, London, Leicester and Southampton.
This recording was performed live in a single take in December 2018, and recored in stereo to a Tascam DR-44WL
Full video with text projection available on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhPWvOBGemg
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I am an experimental composer & performer from Ireland. I write music for electronic instruments, acoustic instruments, & environmental sounds. For the most part, my work is involved with the act of translating non-musical things into music. My music is often long, repetitive, and contains sustained drones. I am also Ad Astra Fellow Assistant Professor in music at UCD in Ireland.