Augmented Vocality

“…one of the freshest, most exciting, intelligent and intriguing musical developments in Northern Ireland in too long a time.”(Michael Quinn – Culture NI)Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble is the only professional musical ensemble in Northern Ireland to specialise in the performance of modern and contemporary repertoire. Its remit is to give a voice to local composers and to perform their music alongside luminaries from elsewhere in Europe and the rest of the world. It aims to programme music that otherwise cannot be heard live locally, while serving as an outlet for the talent of highly specialist performers and acting as a meeting point for their innovation, ideas and enthusiasm.

Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble

‘Recomposing the Sounds of Early Irish and Old Norse’

Sonic Lab, Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC)

‘Recomposing the Sounds of Early Irish and Old Norse’ proposes a novel programme of practice-based research and a methodology to analyse and explore the sounds of early medieval languages. Combining linguistic expertise with sophisticated voice processing technologies, the project aims to give new life to early languages and help reclaim the oral quality at the heart of medieval literature. Break no more my heart today, a newly commissioned work from composer Edmund Hunt, explores this territory using the Hard Rain forces with voice and electronics as a powerful tool to develop new insights and to reanimate texts from early languages well beyond the field of literary studies. His work focuses on two linguistic corpora, Old and Middle Irish and Old Norse - both chosen for their particular sonic qualities and the richness of the surviving texts. As a prelude to this new work we present a variety of works by Irish and Scottish composers that in some way also connect with the Gaelic world or that explore a sound-world somehow in sympathy with it.__________________________PROGRAMMEBENEATH THE DARK BLUE WAVES* (2019) Jane O’Leary (1946) flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello &amp; pianoCÁLLAN(2021) Aíne Mallon (1994) violoncello &amp; pianoCAOIN LETH-CHALLTACH Pàdruig Morrison (1996) (1st Prize 4th Peter Rosser Composition Award 2019) flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello &amp; pianoFIORITURE (2021) Peter O’Doherty (1973) solo fluteI AM LEDA (2021) World Premiere Amelia Clarkson (1995) flute, clarinet, violin &amp; violoncelloGORTNAGARN II* Ryan Molloy (1983) alto flute, bass clarinet, violin, violoncello &amp; pianoBREAK NO MORE MY HEART TODAY** (2021 – 22) World Premiere Edmund Hunt (1983) flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello, piano, sop voice, bass voice and electronics*Commissioned by HRSE with funding from ACNI **Commissioned with AHRC Funding__________________________TICKETS£10 / £5 CONCESSIONDonations gratefully received.__________________________OUR FUNDERSHard Rain SoloistEnsemble is a PRS Foundation Talent Development Partner supported by PPL. We are supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and are Ensemble in Residence at Queen's University Belfast.

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