Solo Instrument

Solo Instrument

Polar Soundings (2025) - is a multifaceted concept that is disseminated as both a standalone multichannel (8.2) sound installation and as a solo viola + polar environments composition composed for Katherine Wren.
Installation is continuos / live performance is 40'00'' - Commissioned by Sound Festival

language land sea (2023) for Human: Lore Lixenberg + Nature: Environments
Live Voice Quadraphonic Sound 3 videos
Duration: 40'00'' - Commissioned by Lore Lixenberg with generous support from Irish Arts Council Commission Award.

human nature series (2020): 18 short compositions for open instrumentation, which are tied together through the singular concept of pairing human with nature: 1 musician with 1 un-processed field recording. (Digital CD release on 04/09/2020 - composerkarenpower.bandcamp.com

• No 1: sirens of New York - 4'50''
• No 2: underwater frogs of Angkor Wat - 4'04''
• No 3: dusk birdscape in Northern Territories - 4'13''
• No 4: train to Machu Picchu - 2'19''
• No 5: loved bees - 3'02''
• No 6: European transport hub - 3'14''
• No 7: Amazonian frogs - 2'00''
• No 8: bats of Namibia- 3'50''
• No 9: crickets interrupted - 3'50''
• No 10: if trees had bellies - 3'37''
• No 11: a frog and gecko moment from Australia - 3'10''
• No 12: seals off the Namibian shipwreck coast - 2'53''
• No 13: country morning in Crete- 4'22''
• No 14: beneath the living sand dunes @ Gobabeb- 2'23''
• No 15: monkeys + 'waterbird' of the Amazon- 3'06''
• No 16: rush hour in Puerto Maldonado - 1'38''
• No 17: underwater world of Namibia- 3'51''
• No 18: unique ecosystem of Garig Gunak Barlu National Park - 3'53''

Sea Stories (2021) - solo instrument, Cuas Sea Arches Site + field recording inside Cuas Sea Arches, Beara, Ireland.

no man's land (2020) - solo voice and the sea (quad tape) - 25'00''
(Commissioned by The Model Arts Centre as part of The Sea Around Us Exhibition) - multifaceted work
for Michelle O' Rourke

tree flute (2018) - Baroque Flute and wind - 10'00'' (for Carla Rees)

outside voice inside (2017) - Oboe + quadraphonic tape - 16'25''
for Cathy Milliken

wind illusions (for Pauline) (2017) - glissando flute + quadraphonic tape - 13'30''
for Erik Drescher

a delicious state of being (2016) - bass flute + tape (water) - 9'20''
for Carin Levine

sonic cradle (2016) - violin, tape (ice) + projected photographs - 12'00''
Commissioned by Deutchlandradio Kultur + Ultraschall Festival

quack moo sigh (2015) - voice + tape - 16'30''
Commissioned by Mutable Music

loaded silence (2015) - piano and ice - 13'30''
Commissioned by Isabelle O' Connell with funds from the Arts Council, Ireland.

deafening silence (2014) - piano and tape - 5'37''

where lost weight is found (2013) - piano, tape and live electronics - 16'00''
Commissioned by Andrew Zolinsky with AC Funds

hang on, I'm not ready for a pig yet (2013) - for baroque violin and Tape - 9'10''
Commissioned by Claire Duff with funds from AC Ireland

here comes another one (2011) - guided improvisation for any instrument + live electronics - 9'00''

relocating elk...by train (2010) - bass flute + tape (for Carin Levine) - 8'30''

Ducks and Chickens (2008) - trumpet and tape - 9'30''

cows, coffee, birds, bees and a new room (2007) - double bass + tape - 7'00''

are you sure you're hearing what's written (2007) - bass clarinet + tape - 6'00''

just one girl playin' around (2006) - amplified cello + tape - 7'20''

an alsation ate my dog (2005) - bass clarinet + tape - 8'21''

freight trains and manuscript paper (2005) - percussion + tape (marimba and woodblock) - 7'00''

like piglets at a market (1999) - solo pno - 8'00''