Karen Power’s Listening Space

some things just are (2008) - Sound and video installation with live improvisors (Quiet Club) - 40’00’’

This is a short extract from 10’00’’, installation only

is it raining while you listen: CD Release by Farpoint Recordings

Click here to hear samples of the tracks - http://www.cmc.ie/shop/cd_detail.cfm?itemID=3430

hearspace (2014) - live interactive radio art on RTÉ Lyric fm - extract from 32’00’’ work

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Arctic Vignettes (2014) - sound and photography collaboration with Chris Blade based on The Arctic - extract of 10 minute work

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armed only with nuts (2012) - singer, cello, clarinet, percussion + conductor - extract from open work up to 40 minutes

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sounds of a time and place (2014) - string quartet + soundscapes (live + tape)

Commissioned by Bozzini Quartet

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deafening silence (2014) for piano and tape (+2 optional audience plants) - 5’37’’ - extract from Irish premier by D. Adams

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here comes another one (2008/2014) - for solo instrument + live electronics - Roddy O’ Keefe performance extract from 9 minute work

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is it raining while you listen (2011) - flute, piano + violin

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hearing leaves (2013) - String Quartet - extract from 14 minute piece for ConTempo Quartet Premier

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no chaos: only organised panic (2012) - RTE National Symphony Orchestra with live electronics

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Gorging Limpet (2013) - collaboration with Max le Cain - sound, video, projection site specific work - 3 minute extract from 55 minutes

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Instruments of Ice (2015) - short promotion video NOW online: (click on image to hear/see extract on youtube)

Once Below (2015) - Promo Online @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6H1K2cECfo

veiled babble (2015) for Large Ensemble, quadraphonic tape + ipods

Extract from premier performance @ Ultraschall Festival, 2016 by Ensemble Mosaic

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loaded silence (2015) - commissioned by Isabelle O’ Connell (with funds from AC)

1 minute extract from 13’30’’ piece - click on image

is this on? (2016) - Radio Art site specific @ Cork City Gaol - Commissioned by RTÉ Lyric fm


4 minute extract from 40’00’’ piece - click on gaol image

here not here (2016) - for Sonar Quartet - new video extract

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwDU7hmHew8

Here is the wonderful Sonar Quartett premiering an extract from here not here (2016) SinusTon Festival, which features sonic commonalities between Berlin + Laos.

those are the dangers of root vegetables (2016) - public space performance piece….


https://www.cmc.ie/features/karen-power-those-are-dangers-round-vegetables - video extract


Micheal Duggan (Irish Times)…..There were actual human voices speaking on Thursday night, as the Dublin-based Kirkos Ensemble performed Karen Power’s those are the dangers of round vegetables next to the railway platforms in Heuston Station. Only one of the voices belonged to a performer. He spoke in short, repeated phrases, sometimes intelligibly, or sighed or groaned as he moved about the concourse...

quack moo sigh (2015) commissioned by Mutable Music - 5 minute extract of 16’30’’ piece


Performed byThomas Bucker - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL8IZf7OlbE

shaped by place + time (2017)

shaped by place + time (2017) by Karen Power - stereo extract of 6 channel installation - in-progress showing onsite in Blue Mountains, Australia.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZtXT5S7KR0


indoor/outdoor sound installation - 5 minute extract from 40 minute work