A Hybrid Symphony for Crash Ensemble and Halo Track, with Diamanda La Berge Dramm as Guide, composed by Sam Perkin, inspired by the writing of Charles Eisenstein.
Available on Bandcamp (digitial & limited edition CD), Friday 3rd November 2023
Pre-order on Bandcamp: https://crashensemble.bandcamp.com/album/children-in-the-universe
Pre-save on streaming platforms: https://lnk.fuga.com/childrenintheuniverse
She goes into nature, into the dunes, and talks to the clouds.
She talks to the wind. I think it’s something adolescents do.
– Bavo Defurne
Composer Sam Perkin has announced the release of a hybrid symphony for Crash Ensemble and Halo Track, with Diamanda La Berge Dramm as Guide, titled “Children of the Universe”, due for release Friday 3rd November 2023 on Bandcamp (digital and limited edition CD).
Speaking of the release, Perkin says:
“Composed between 2020 and 2022, I have gone deep for this work. There are two years of life in here. Our Guide, Diamanda, will take us on a sacred journey to a place where only music can.
She will act as a medium through which, with open ears, we can dream much needed counsel.
Together, we can use this guidance to create the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible.”
TRACKLIST
- We Howled Like Wolves
- Lifeblood
- Tears Of Pure Intuition
CREDITS
Solo Violin – Diamanda La Berge Dramm
Violin – Larissa O’Grady
Viola – Cian Ó’Dúill
Cello – Kate Ellis
Double Bass – Caimin Gilmore
Flute – Susan Doyle
Clarinet – Leonie Bluett
Trombone – Roderick O’Keeffe
Percussion – Alex Petcu
Guitar – Barry O’Halpin
Piano – Eliza McCarthy
Conductor – Ryan McAdams
Artwork and Design: Gareth Jones
Recorded at St. Nicholas’ Church, Galway on 22 July 2022 at Galway International Arts Festival
Recorded by Ian Dowdall
Edited, Mixed and Mastered by Brian Bolger
Artistic Director: Kate Ellis
CEO: Siân Cunningham
Production Manager/Crash Records Label Manager: Rob Kearns
Producer/Concerts Manager: Matt Rafter
Marketing & Community Manager: Mariana Parás
ABOUT SAM PERKIN
Based between France and Ireland, Sam Perkin composes music for leading musicians and ensembles in Ireland and abroad. He completed a residency in 2022 with Crash Ensemble, Ireland’s leading new music ensemble.
Sam holds degrees in Composition from CIT Cork School of Music in Ireland and an Artist Diploma from Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon in France. He was a participant composer at Ostrava New Music Festival Czech Republic in 2013 and at New Music On The Point Vermont in 2018 in where he worked with Roomful of Teeth and members of The Jack Quartet. In France he was awarded The Prix Salabert for Composition in 2016 and in Ireland he was awarded The Next Generation Bursary from The Arts Council of Ireland in 2017. He has been in residence with Crash Ensemble, Music For Galway, Irish Association of Youth Orchestras, ConCorda Chamber Music Course for Strings, and The Tyrone Guthrie Centre.
ABOUT CRASH ENSEMBLE
Crash Ensemble is Ireland’s leading new music ensemble; a group of world-class musicians who play the most adventurous, ground-breaking music of today.
Amazingly ordinary people doing extraordinary things – Crash is innovative, adventurous and ambitious.
Led by cellist and Artistic Director, Kate Ellis and Principal Conductor, Ryan McAdams, the ensemble commissions, collaborates, explores, investigates and experiments with a broad spectrum of music creators and artistic collaborators: ‘We love to innovate, with quality always at the heart of everything we do. We are passionate about the music we play. We create experiences; exploring new ways of presenting music and bringing our audiences on new adventures. Community for us is key – our community inspires us to create and experiment more. We value our audiences and our connection with them.’
Crash perform both in Ireland and internationally. The ensemble’s music is available on their own label, Crash Records and they have recordings on Nonesuch, Cantaloupe, NMC, Ergodos and Bedroom Community labels.
Many well-known artists from diverse musical backgrounds have performed with the ensemble; Terry Reily, Gavin Friday, Dawn Upshaw, Diamanda La Berge Dramm, Laurie Anderson, Lisa Hannigan, Íarla Ó Lionáird (The Gloaming), Bryce Dessner (The National), Richard Reed Parry (Arcade Fire), Sam Amidon and Beth Orton.
As well as performing throughout Ireland, Crash regularly perform internationally, with appearances in the last few years at the Edinburgh International Festival, The Royal Opera House (London), The Barbican (London), Carnegie Hall (NYC) The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Washington DC), Virginia Tech (Virginia), GAIDA Festival (Lithuania) and residencies at The Huddersfield Contemporary Music festival (UK) and Princeton University (NJ).
Crash Ensemble is funded by the Arts Council of Ireland and Dublin City Council, is a resident ensemble at the National Concert Hall in Dublin, Ireland and at Kilkenny Arts Festival, Ireland.
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