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HearSpace - interactive radio art with set and live components - 32'00''

'hearspace is a new interactive piece of radio art composed for and through Irish radio by Karen Power. On March 23rd @ 9pm RTÉ lyric fm will act as a live conduit, through which Karen Power will compose and perform a new composition for radio based on the idea of exploring the sounds of a particular time, place and memory.'

Is This On??? - site-specific Radio Art piece @ Cork City Gaol - 36'00''

In 1927, Cork City Gaol hosted one of Ireland's earliest radio broadcasts, the simple sound of cartwheels on cobbles. RTÉ lyric fm has commissioned is this on?, a new work for radio from renowned Irish composer Karen Power to mark the place of that first broadcast and to pay tribute to the profoundly significant contributions by women to Ireland's turbulent history in the early twentieth century. is this on? combines; field recordings recorded by Karen from all over the world, RTÉ Lyric fm archival materials + inaudible sounds from Cork City Gaol itself. Commissioned by RTÉ Lyric fm