Oscailt - Jennifer Walshe, Elizabeth Hilliard, Panos Ghikas & Nick Roth
Music Network opens its Autumn 2023 Season with the world premiere of 'Oscailt', a new commission by Jennifer Walshe performed in collaboration with Elizabeth Hilliard, Nick Roth and Panos Ghikas. Jennifer Walshe composer and vocalist Elizabeth Hilliard soprano Nick Roth saxophone Panos Ghikas multi-instrumentalist/electronics Open your mind and see the world through the eyes of our digital natives. An extraordinary multi-media composition for sound and video by the amazing force of nature that is vocalist, improviser and composer Jennifer Walshe. Imagine a place where a phone tower is planted next to a holy well, where Facebook employees at the Clonee data centre tend beehives in a nod to medieval monks, and where the hexagonal shapes of the basalt columns at the Giant’s Causeway are echoed in the solar cells of the James Webb Telescope peering into deepest space as the Leviathan once did. No need to imagine it, we are living it Developed by Walshe and her ensemble with the help of secondary school students from across the country, this new performance will draw on their...
