18/04/2026

+

19/04/2026

17/04/2026

10/04/2026

13/02/2026

06/02/2026

Human Nature Series @ Estonian Music Festival, Quiet Music Ensemble perform in Talinn + Laulasmaa

https://www.eestimuusikapaevad.ee/

No. 10 - if trees had bellies

No. 11 - a frog and a gecko moment

No. 2 - underwater frogs of Angkor Wat

No. 14 - beneath the living sand dunes @ Gobabeb

No. 18 - unique ecosystem of Garig Gunk Burl National Park

Human Nature Series @ EICAR à Ivry-sur-Seine near Paris

https://soundinitiative.fr/actualites - Sound Initiative Collective

Human Nature No. 1 + No. 2

Deafening Silence (2014) @ Bard College, NY, USA

Isabelle O' Connell (Pianist) performs works by Dennehy, Mulvey, Mazzoli, Sergent, Cerrone and Power.

Human Nature Series @ Music After Nature Festival, Vienna.
https://musicafternature.org/ @ Soho Studios
Elisabeth Flunger, Roland Schueler + Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka perform various Human Nature duos. Human Nature Improvisation with Karen Power, Elisabeth Flunger, Roland Schueler, Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka

language land sea (2023) Digital Album Launch on Bandcamp
by Karen Power - https://composerkarenpower.bandcamp.com/album/language-land-sea
for Human: Loré Lixenberg + Nature: Environments
Performance + early materials devised in collaboration with Loré Lixenberg
https://composerkarenpower.bandcamp.com

Coming soon...

31/05/2026

12/06/2026

to 

22/06/2026

listening between poles - CD Release by Farpoint Recordings - CD and digital release details announced soon. 

1. Antarctica calling listen 20:18

2. loaded silence 13:36

3. sonic cradle 12:03

4. listening between poles 18:17

When Forests Sing (2025) @ Blackwater Vallely Opera Fesitval, Lismore, Ireland.
A wordless opera by Karen Power, performed by members of OYOI (Open Youth Orchestra of Ireland – musicians living with disabilities), students from RIAM (Royal Irish Academy of Music), with technological instrumentalists, choir, soundscapes, and forest soundscapes. Lismore Heritage Centre 5.00pm.
https://blackwatervalleyopera.ie/

Natural Creators Sound Installation (2026) @ Cork Midsummer Festival

Interactive sound installation for Early Years children + parents - details tbc

Series of workshops tbc

31/12/2025

08/11/2025

02/11/2025

01/11/2025

23/10/2025

to 

25/10/2025

23/10/2025

25/10/2025

07/10/2025

20/06/2025 

to 

06/07/2025

05/07/2025

23/05/2025

07/05/2025

26/03/2026

31/01/2025

10/01/2025

02/11/2024

01/11/2024

13/10/2024

02/10/2024

18/09/2024

15 - 31/10/2024

Where Forests Sing (2025) @ Samuel Beckett Theatre, Dublin, Ireland
An Inclusive and Co-Creative Wordless Opera with RIAM and led by Karen Power that features a mixed ensemble and soloists, which are made up of RIAM students and people living with disabilities, a sound choir, soundscapes and videos that places focus on communication between all humans and nature.

Life between Poles (2025) Premier @ Klangwerkstatt Festival, Berlin
60/70 minute 8.2 channel work featuring Quiet Music Ensemble + Ensemble Mosaik
Commissioned by Klangwerkstatt with funds from Ernst Von Siemens Award

A sonic Arctic Return (2025) - a radio feature sound diary on RTÉ Lyric fm
Featuring the voices of 10 international artists + the audible + inaudable sounds of the Arctic.
https://www.rte.ie/radio/lyricfm/clips/22556495/

Sonic Vigil 20th Anniversary - @ Fota House, Cork, Ireland. 

Polar Soundings (2025) Premier @ Sound Festival, Aberdeen, Scotland
40min 8.2 Channel Performance Installation for Katherine Wren (Viola) + The Poles

Stone Drawn Circles Ensemble

can you hear me now??? (2020 / 2024) @ Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales.
Stone Drawn Circles Ensemble

Human Nature Series Forêts intérieures, chant des maraisici l´onde, Dijon
LUX:NM Perform 5 of the 18 solo instrument + field recording pieces

Field Recording @ Ruaha National Park, Tanzania.

Human Nature Series @ Heroines of Sound Festival, Berlin
LUX:NM Perform 5 of the 18 solo instrument + field recording pieces @ HOS.

Resonating with the ocean - EMD (European Maritime Day) in Cork

Sonic Cradle (2016) performed @ Trinity College Dublin
Larissa O' Grady (Violin) performs.

hidden voices of Carlingford Lough (2024) SoundWaves Across Divides Podcast.

Entr'acte - Sound Art Quartet perform @ FUAIM, Cork, Ireland.
​Entr'acte is: John Godfrey (former Crash Ensemble, Quiet Music Ensemble, Composer/Improvisor), Irene Murphy (Diatribe label, Domestic Godless), Mick O' Shea (Quiet Club, Strange Attractor, Domestic Godless) and Karen Power (Internationally renowned composer/sound artist + creative field recordist).

Sounding the Hidden (at the NLI) - a co-created composition by inclusive ensemble to be added to the NLI National Collections.
Led by composer Karen Power, the ensemble is made up of a group of ten musicians - five living with intellectual disabilities and five students of the Royal Irish Academy of Music (RIAM). The composition incorporates sounds that capture the distinctive hidden + audible sounds of the National Library of Ireland.
Duration: 10'00''

sonic cradle (2016) - @ANIMA MUNDI #5, Gorzów, MOS, Poland
for Violin, Arctic Ice (stereo sound) + projected still imagery - performed by Larissa O' Grady
​Zeitgeist Ireland event

sonic cradle (2016) - @ANIMA MUNDI #5, Errant Sound, Berlin
for Violin, Arctic Ice (stereo sound) + projected still imagery - performed by Larissa O' Grady
​​Zeitgeist Ireland event

Human Nature No. 7 - Bats of Namibia @ The Guesthouse, Cork.
for single human and nature performed by John Godfrey (Electric Guitar)Part of the Music of Today. 𝗢𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘃𝘀𝗸𝗮́ 𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮 in Ireland

The Arctic speaks through time (2024) - Time to Listen Conference @ AdK, Berlin

Listening under Carlingford Lough (2024) - sound piece performed as part of Shifting Tides Culture Night Program

Arctic Circle Residency - 2 weeks in the high Arctic field recording

12/07/2024

12/07/2024

07-14/06/2024

12/05/2024

11/05/2024

CD Release: ...we return to ground... CD Release @ Heroines of Sound Festival
with Quiet Music Ensemble from Other Minds
July 12, 2024 as a double CD and digital download
​https://othermindsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/we-return-to-ground
SAN FRANCISCO—June 25, 2024—Other Minds is pleased to present …we return to ground…, a new recording by Irish composer Karen Power and Quiet Music Ensemble. This double CD features three of Power's large-scale pieces pairing natural sounds with musical instruments, written for and with Quiet Music Ensemble over an 8-year period.
Beginning with instruments of ice in 2015, Power's experience of pairing natural sounds with musical instruments has evolved into a transformative body of work. Her approach to composition, creating space for interactions between field recordings and human performers, allows for the emergence of new sonic dialogues with the natural world. In his liner notes, David Toop writes, "What we are hearing is not reducible to 'music' and 'nature'; there is an acknowledgement that the senses are not separate. They are fluid, sometimes interchangeable in their perception of worlds, and those worlds overlap, become each other."
Power's approach to scoring reflects her belief in the diverse ways of experiencing music and sound. Her works build on the long-standing traditions of graphic, text, and even video scores while in pursuit of a new kind of score for the ear, what she calls an aural score. An aural score is similar to a tape part, but differs in that it functions as both materials for the audience to listen to and materials to guide the performers.
This approach to scoring benefits from Power's deep collaborations with Quiet Music Ensemble. She credits these works as being "uniquely shaped by QME and written knowing and trusting their ears and interpretative skills." Through this collaboration with Quiet Music Ensemble, Power invites listeners to immerse themselves in unique sonic ecosystems, offering time and space for individual interpretation and exploration.
…we return to ground… will be available on July 12, 2024 as a double CD and as a digital download. The album is available directly from Other Minds, our Bandcamp page, all major digital music outlets, and through our distributors The Business (USA) and SoundOhm (EU).

...we return to ground...(2022) - ​@ Heroines of Sound Festival, Berlin
Quiet Music Ensemble, re-composed field recordings + electronics, water instrument, dance and film.
- in collaboration with Mary Nunan (dance) + Atoosa pour Hosseini (film)

Cicada double brood field recording trip in Illinois, USA
@Illinois State University 11/06/2024 - sound walk, talk + performance
13/06/2024 - performance with Cicadas with David Rothenberg + guests

can you hear me now??? (2019) -  Stone Drawn Circles Ensemble @ Cresent Arts Centre, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

can you hear me now??? (2019) -  Stone Drawn Circles Ensemble @ Hugh Lane Art Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.

25/04/2024

human nature series (2020) - no. 1 + 17 @ Guts'n'faders "Mensch - Natur - Klang" Wieskapelle, Graz, Austria.

20/04/2024

can you hear me now??? (2019) - Stone Drawn Circles Ensemble @ New Music Dublin Festival, NCH, Ireland

12/04/2024

wondrous worlds within/without (2024) - 8 channel sound installation @ Reach'24 Sustainability Art Festival, Belfast, Northern Ireland 18/04/24 - 20/04/24

26/03/2024

Entr'acte - Sound Art Quartet Performance in response to wondrous worlds within/without (2024) @ Sirius Arts Centre
Entr'acte:
John Godfrey (extended electric guitar)
Karen Power (field recordings, amplified objects + projections)
​Mick O' Shea (built instruments + electronics)
Irene Murphy (acoustic + amplified objects)

25/03/2024

Human Nature Series No. 1-4 @ Versipel New Music Soundscape Festival, New Orleans, USA https://versipel.org/season-x-23-24/

23/03/2024

03/03/2024

Sonic Cradle (2015) - for viola and Arctic Ice - stereo tape + video @ Arctic Science Summit Week, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Performed by Katherine Wren (viola)

Human Nature Series @ Éiríocht: New Music from Ireland.
Silent Green, Berlin, Germany
Performers: LIna Andonovsaka (Bass Flute) + Dermot Dunne (Accordian)

02/03/2024

to

27/04/2024

wondrous worlds within/without (2024) - 8 channel sound installation @ Sirius Arts Centre, Cork.

Sound Installation based on the idea of sonic connections and what life might be like if we were more open to this notion. 
Opening 02/03/2024 - Closing 27/04/2024

22/02/2024

Solitaire (2023) - @ IFI, Dublin. An expérimental film by Maximilian le Cain with sound by Karen Power

22/11/2023

can you hear me now??? (2019) - sextet version premier for Stone Drawn Circles for HCMF Festival, 2023.

16/11/2023

Solitaire (2023) - Premiere @ Cork International Film Festival, The Triskel Arts Centre, Cork @ 8:30pm
An expérimental film by Maximilian le Cain with sound by Karen Power

11/11/2023

26/10/2023

...when one duck leaves the row... (2021) for ensemble mosiak, video + composed field recordings (quadraphonic tape) @ Musik 21 Festival, Hannover, Germany 

...if left to soar on winds wings... (2023) - @ Bludenz New Music Festival, Bludenz.
- for Klangforum Wien + quadraphonic environment

26/10/2023

Hidden Allure (2016) - 4 channel work diffused @ Elektroakustische Musik, AdK, Berlin, Germany.
​Kaum glaublicher Übergang zwischen zwei Welten Konzert mit Werken von Frederic Rzewski, Luc Ferrari, Clara Maïda, Karen Power
Ort: Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg 10

23/10/2023

13/10/2023

...if left to soar on winds wings... (2023) - @ Wiener Konzertthaus, Mozart Hall, Vienna, Austria.
- for Klangforum Wien + quadraphonic environment

language land sea (2023) @ Aula Maxima, Cork @ UCC FUAIM Series
- A performance installation concert for voice and environments 

06/10/2023

...if left to soar on winds wings... (2023) - premier @ ORF MusikProtokoll Festival, Graz, Austria
- for Klangforum Wien + quadraphonic environment - commissioned by ORF/MusikProtokoll Festival.

14/09/2023

to 16/09/2023

Sonic Vigil Presents: In Your Own Time And Place: a 3-day celebration of sound art, improvisation + sonic explorations in Cork, Ireland.
Featuring:
• the Irish Premiere of Daniel Weintraub's ground-breaking documentary on Pauline Oliveros • Renowned experimental music group Quiet Music Ensemble
• Ireland's celebrated improvisation duo Quiet Club with saxophonist Cathal Roche
• Memory Echo: a short film featuring Pauline Oliveros by Andrew Deutsch
• The eleventh iteration of Cork's unique improvisation marathon, Sonic Vigil. 

19/08/2023

language land sea (2023) @ AdK, Berlin, Germany - Time to Listen Festival
- A performance installation concert for voice and environments - commissioned by Lore Lixenberg (voice) + devised in collaboration with Lore.

22/06/2023

03/06/2023

language land sea (2023)@ Solstice Arts Centre, Navan.
- A performance installation concert for voice and environments - commissioned by Lore Lixenberg (voice) + devised in collaboration with Lore.

...we return to ground... @ Sirius Arts Centre, Cork by Quiet Music Ensemble
- for Quiet Music Ensemble, re-composed field recordings + electronics, water instrument, dance and film. ​Composer in collaboration with Mary Nunan (dance) + Atoosa pour Hosseini (film)

23/04/2023

...Antarctica calling...listen... (2022) @ Premier @ New Music Dublin by RTÉ Concert Orchestra
A duet for RTÉ Concert Orchestra + Antarctica
for Orchestra, composed Antarctica field recordings + projected photographs by John Godfrey.
Co-Commissioned by RTÉ Concert Orchestra and New Music Dublin. Supported by an Irish Arts Council Arts Grant

23/04/2023

20/01/2023

03/09/2022

...we return to ground... (2022) @ New Music Dublin by Quiet Music Ensemble - National Concert Hall, Dublin.
- for Quiet Music Ensemble, re-composed field recordings + electronics, water instrument, dance and film. ​Composer in collaboration with Mary Nunan (dance) + Atoosa pour Hosseini (film)

...nature calls...(2022) - for RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra + Blackbird - @ ​National Concert Hall, Dublin, Ireland.
​National Symphony Orchestra
Jessica Cottis, conductor
Leticia Moreno, violin

Punkt Seminar | curated by David Toop - seminar series as part of Punkt Festival, Norway. https://punktfestival.no

28/07/2022

Human Nature Series - select duets performed by Kirkos Ensemble in Phoenix Park, Ireland - part of Kirkos 10th Anniversary Festival

29/06/2022

Human Nature Series...on location... - 5 of the 18 duets to be performed around the world in specific locations. In partnership with Sirius Arts Centre, Ireland. Performers: Samuel Stoll, Jane Rigler, Simone Keller, John Godfrey + Lore Lixenberg. ​

02/05/2022

23/04/2022

16/04/2022

12/04/2022

Radio Art works @ Sonic Matter - 24 hour stream - https://sonicmatter.ch/en/sonic-world/radio
hearspace (2014) - for radio
is this on? (2016) - site specific radio
human nature series (2020) - 3 pieces
once below (2015) - radio version
amazonian words (2017) - tape

...we return to ground... (2022) - for Quiet Music Ensemble in collaboration with Mary Nunan (Dance), Atoosa pour Hosseini (Film) + Underwater life @ The Model, Sligo, Ireland.

Human Nature Series - Performances + talks @ UCCS (University of Colorado) - John Godfrey + Jane Rigler

sounds like the amazon... (2017) + Human Nature (no 8 + no 19) @ The Nature of Music,
Other Minds Festival, San Francisco, USA
14 channel performance installation 28'00''
John Godfrey (electric guitar) performs Namibian bats + Sea Stories

07/04/2022

sonic pollinators (2017) + loaded silence (2015) @ Roulette, Brooklyn, NY, USA
​Interpretations Series by Mutable Music
4 channel performance with QME (Quiet Music Ensemble) 30'00''
Piano + Ice (Stereo tape) performed by Isabelle O' Connell 13'30''

03/03/2022

Sea Stories (2021) - new expansion of Human Nature Series, a site specific composition for/with Cuas Pier Caves, Ardgroom, Beara, Ireland.
John Godfrey - Electric Guitar
Karen Power - concept + field recording

22/01/2022

bog songs (2021) - for Ensemble LUX:NM - 6 instruments, expanded instruments + bog sounds - performed @ Radialsystem V, Ultraschall Festival, Germany.

17/12/2021

...adrift yet somehow tethered... (2021) - for Ensemble Mosaik - Performance Installation ​for large ensemble, video, light and soundscapes @ silent green Kulturquartier, Berlin

08/12/2021

instruments of ice (2015) - (New large ensemble version Ensemble of Ice forImprovising Ensemble) performed @ The Cube, Virginia, USA

21/10/2021

sonic cradle (2016) - for violin/viola, Arctic ice and projected photographs - Performed by Katherine Wren (Viola) @ Sound Scotland Festival

09/2021

Airy Sound Art Artist in Residence, Västernorrland, Sweden - field recording in Sweden's oldest forests

01/09/2021

bog songs (2021) - for Ensemble LUX:NM - for 6 instruments, expanded instruments + bog sounds - premiered by LUX:NM @ Kesselhaus, Berlin.

13/08/2021

here comes another one (2011) - for amplified violin + live electronics - performed by Darragh Morgan @ New Music Gathering, USA. - Streamed concert

12/05/2021

...when one duck leaves the row...(2021) - for ensemble, video and quadraphonic tape - for Ensemble Mosiak - video recording for streaming

17/12/2020

TOUCH (2020) - a micro opera - with text by Ione - Directed by Jo Mangan / Conducted by Fergus Sheil
Naomi Louisa O' Connell (MS), Gyula Nagy (B), RTÉ Concert Orchestra + Quadraphonic SoundScape
Online video performance
https://www.irishnationalopera.ie/20-shots-of-opera/operas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHIyk_9iGuw&feature=emb_logo

30/10/2020

Veiled Borders Quartet - improvised network performance @ ElectroAcoustic Barn Dance, USA - online
​Karen Power, Jane Rigler, Thomas Cuifo + John Godfrey

18/09/2020

No Man's Land (2020) @The Model, Sligo, Ireland - Culture Night Video Screening Performance
​Michelle O' Rourke - Voice / Karen Power - live electronics / Quadraphonic Sea-based Tape - 25'00''

04/09/2020

human nature - CD Digital Release - 18 new compositions by Irish composer Karen Power, which are tied together through the singular concept of pairing human with nature: 1 musician with 1 un-processed field recording.
composerkarenpower.bandcamp.com

28/02/2020 to

21/09/2020

No Man's Land (2020) 8 channel Sound Installation @ The Model, Sligo, Ireland
The Sea Around Us Exhibition

04/08/2020

to

12/08/2020

Past/Present Suir Songs (2020) @ Clonmel Junctions Arts Festival
6 channel sound installation with light

22/08/2020

Veiled Borders Quartet - improvised network performance @ Earth Day Art Model, Indiana, USA.
​Karen Power, Jane Rigler, Thomas Cuifo + John Godfrey

08/02/2020

to

08/03/2020

…where foreigners meet...(2019/20) - German Tour - premier @ Eclat Festival, Stuttgart - followed by Berlin, Cologne + Bremen.
​Lange//Berwick//Lorenz - 3 synthesisers + quad tape (field recording based) 15'00''

29/02/2020

No Man's Land (2020) premier @The Model, Sligo, Ireland - Exhibition Opening
​Michelle O' Rourke - Voice / Karen Power - live electronics / Quadraphonic sea - 25'00''