ᖃᐅᔨᒪᔭᐅᔪᓐᓃᖅᑐᑦ OBLIVION SEACHMALLTACHT
OBLIVION is a multimedia performance, moving image and sound installation created by Aideen Barry in collaboration with internationally renowned Inuit Canadian singer and song writer RIIT ᕇᑦ , Irish Harpist Aisling Lyons with performative costume design by Margaret O Connor and was commissioned by the Irish Traditional Music Archive and Music Network under the 2020 Bunting Commission award. The composers are Aideen Barry, Cathal Murphy, Stephen Shannon and the music is also arranged by Shannon. It is funded by the Arts Council of Ireland and the Canada Council. The work was commissioned by the Irish Traditional Music Archive & Music Network on the occasion of the BUNTING ARCHIVES COMMISSION AWARD in 2020. The Bunting archives can be found in Queens University Belfastw
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OBLIVION is a work built in response to the endeavour of Edward Bunting to save the Irish Harp from extinction, thus giving us the 66 tracks, lilts and airs of Irish Traditional Harp which saved the music for future generations and became an intrinsic part of our Irish Cultural Identity. It also merges two indigenous musical entities to create a new and never before heard sound of Inuit Throat Singing,
Irish Harp and Electronica beats to make a dark anthem full of gothic tropes and haunting call to arms from the desperate depths, asking:
What is the Role of Art & Artists at a time of great uncertainty, environmental collapse and the prospect of a world of ruin if we do nothing at all?
ᖃᐅᔨᒪᔭᐅᔪᓐᓃᖅᑐᑦ / OBLIVION / SEACHMALLTACHT debuted in 2021 as Live performance, and immersive and complex video & audio installation and a EDITIONED Vinyl Record ( edition 500) and a limited signed print artwork.
This 15 minute track is a musical piece of poetry and a call to arms, it will be performed and was live Broadcasted from The Irish World Academy of Music & Dance at University of Limerick and THE COMPLEX in Dublin on 21.12.21
The Project toured Limerick City Gallery, Source Art Centre, Town hall Cavan, The Living Canvas Dublin and Centre Culturel Irlandais Paris.
ᖃᐅᔨᒪᔭᐅᔪᓐᓃᖅᑐᑦ OBLIVION SEACHMALLTACHT
OBLIVION is a work built in response to the endeavour of Bunting to save the Irish Harp from extinction, thus giving us the 66 tracks, lilts and airs of Irish Traditional Harp which saved the music for future generations and became an intrinsic part of our Irish Cultural Identity.
