Dr. Ann Cleare

Assistant Professor, Electronic & Elect. Engineering

clearea@tcd.ie 3531896 1864 https://annclearecomposer.com/

Biography

Ann Cleare is an artist working in the areas of concert music, opera, installation, and site specific work. Described as "an altogether different artforms" that draws from musical traditions, but pushes against and beyond them, articulating something that is at once about sound, but that is equally concerned with energy, motion, space, and the world itself", her work explores the sculptural and expressive nature of sound, expanding the possibilities of timbre, texture, and form. Often exploring poetries of place, time, communication, and transformation, Cleare's work aims to animate ideas through sound, immersing an audience in both the wildness and intimacy of sonic expression.

From The Berlin Philharmonie to the Walt Disney Hall to Lincoln Centre to Wigmore Hall and HARPA, Ann Cleare's work has been commissioned and presented by international broadcasters such as the BBC, NPR, ORF, RTÉ, SWR, WDR for festivals such as New Music Dublin, Gaudeamus Week, Wittenertage fur Neue Kammermusik, International Music Institute Darmstadt, MATA Festival, Sound Reasons Festival in India, Shanghai New Music Week, Totally Huge New Music in Perth, Rainy Days, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, and Musikfest Berlin. Through working with some of the most progressive musicians of our time, she has established a reputation for creating innovative forms of music, both in its presentation, and within the music itself. She has worked with groups such as The International Contemporary Ensemble, Crash Ensemble, Musikfabrik, ELISION, The National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, JACK Quartet, Ensemble Nikel, The Curious Chamber Players, Yarn/Wire, ensemble mosaik, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, ensemble recherche, TAK, Ensemble Garage, Argento Chamber Ensemble, Ensemblekollektiv, line upon line, Bozzini Quartet and soloists such as Carol McGonnell, Richard Craig, Patrick Stadler, Ryan Muncy, Claire Chase, Richard Haynes, William Lang, Lina Andonovska, Michelle O'Rourke, Samuel Stoll, and Callum G'Froerer.

Recent works have focused on creating experiential environments where sound is given a visual as well as sonic dimension. Inspired by sites of historical importance in the Midlands of Ireland, MIDHE aims to reanimate the fire of Ireland"s disappeared middle province through the sound and movement of over 200 performers; TERRARIUM maps the geological strati of the boglands into an immersive terrarium of sound and light performed by 10 musicians and earth tapestries; NOCTURNE, unfolding across indoor and outdoor spaces of sites that celebrate and protect the night sky, weaves site, sound, and audience participation to observe the ways humans have imagined the cosmos across history. Little Lives, a 90-minute opera for five singers and ensemble, examines the topic of information wars and the progressive and regressive roles of national identity. Meridians, a 1-hour, spatialised work for string quartet with solo clarinet and solo saxophones, imagines music as a machine for measuring luminosity, energy, time, and memory, with vectors of sound unfurling around the audience, akin to a sundial and nocturnal at work in the modulating worlds of day and night.

Current and future projects include a string orchestra work for Ensemble Resonanz to be premiered at Donaueschingen Music Festival 2026; a new immersive work for TAK to premiere in New York in Spring of 2027; new chamber works for Riot Ensemble and Stone Drawn Circles; and an Extended Reality work created in collaboration with multimedia artist Fionnuala Conway.

Ann studied at University College Cork, IRCAM, and holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University. In October 2019, she received an Honorary Doctorate from the National University of Ireland for her contribution to music. Her scores are published by Project Schott New York. She is Assistant Professor of Music and Media Technologies at Trinity College Dublin and is one of the first 40 members of the Young Academy of Ireland network.

Publications and Further Research Outputs

Peer-Reviewed Publications
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications

Ann Cleare, 'the physics of fog, swirling ', the physics of fog, swirling for large ensemble and live electronics, Premiered at Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik 2019, 2019, -Musical Score, 2019, URL
Ann Cleare, 'Earth Waves', for Solo Trombone, Spatialised Vocal Ensemble, and Moving Electronics, Commissioned by The Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation for William Lang and Ekmeles Vocal Ensemble. , 2018, -Musical Score, 2018
Ann Cleare, 'where cobalt waves live for solo piano ', The Contemporary Music Centre Dublin, 2018, -Musical Score, 2018, URL
Ann Cleare, 'One Here Now: A Sonic Theatre ', One Here Now: A Sonic Theatre for voices, percussion, and electronics , 2018, -Musical Score, 2018, URL
Ann Cleare, 'teeth of light, tongue of waves ', teeth of light, tongue of waves for soprano, bassoon, bowed guitar, viola, cello, and double bass, Miller Theatre, New York, 2018, -Musical Score, 2018, URL
Ann Cleare, 'surface station #2: the relighting of the sun for double bell trumpet, electronic sculpture and lights ', 2017, -Musical Score, 2017, URL
Ann Cleare, 'fiáin for violin, viola, cello, electric guitar, electric bass guitar ', 2017, -Musical Score, 2017
Ann Cleare, '93 million miles away for violin, cello, and piano', 2016, -Musical Score, 2016, URL
Ann Cleare, 'eyam ii (taking apart your universe) / Solo Contrabass Clarinet and Large Ensemble ', 2016, -Musical Score, 2016, URL
Ann Cleare, 'eyam v (woven) for contrabass flute, contrabass clarinet and orchestra', 2016, -Musical Score, 2016, URL
Ann Cleare, 'surface station #1: in the upper atmosphere / multi-belled, electronic French horn solo with video, commissioned by Samuel Stoll, 12 mins, premiered in Gard du Nord, Basel, Swaitzerland ', 2016, -Musical Score, 2016, URL
Ann Cleare, 'rinn / Chamber Opera with Electronic Staging', 2015, -Musical Score, 2015, URL
Ann Cleare, 'eöl for Sonic Sculpture and Chamber Ensemble', 2015, -Musical Score, 2015, URL
Ann Cleare, 'eyam iv (Pluto's Farthest Moons) for contrabass flute, spatialised ensemble, and electronics', 2014, -Musical Score, 2014, URL
Ann Cleare, 'luna/lithe/lair for Spatialised Large Ensemble ', 2014, -Musical Score, 2014, URL
Ann Cleare, 'I should live in wires for leaving you behind for Theatrically Choreographed Piano/Percussion Quartet ', 2014, -Musical Score, 2014, URL
Ann Cleare, 'anchor me to the land for Large Ensemble ', 2014, -Musical Score, 2014, URL
Ann Cleare, 'mire | | veins for Brass Quintet ', 2013, -Musical Score, 2013, URL
Ann Cleare, 'phôsphors (...of ether) for orchestra', 2013, -Musical Score, 2013, URL
Ann Cleare, 'ore for single reed wind instrument (cl/ob/sax) and string trio', 2016, -Musical Score, 2016, URL
Ann Cleare, 'luna (the eye that opens the other eye) for Solo Alto Saxophone', 2014, -Musical Score, 2014, URL
Ann Cleare, 'the square of yellow light that is your window for Mixed Quartet ', 2014, -Musical Score, 2014, URL
Ann Cleare, 'to another of that other: a Triple Concerto ', 2013, -Musical Score, 2013, URL
Ann Cleare, 'eyam i (it takes an ocean not to) for Solo Bb Clarinet ', 2013, -Musical Score, 2013, URL
Ann Cleare, 'on magnetic fields / Large Ensemble divided into Three Chamber Groups ', 2012, -Musical Score, 2012
Dr. Ann Cleare, Irish Artist-in-Residence at SoundSCAPE Festival, Italy, July , 2018Conference Paper, 2018
Dr. Ann Cleare, Guest composer at the Irish Composition Summer School, Dublin, July, 2018Conference Paper, 2018
Dr. Ann Cleare, Guest composer/lecturer, DJBFA Course, Engelsholm Castle, Denmark, May, 2017Conference Paper, 2017
Dr. Ann Cleare, Guest Composer (presenting, teaching and curating) at Music Current, Dublin Sound Lab's new Festival of Electronic Music, Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, April, 2016Conference Paper, 2016
Dr. Ann Cleare, Guest Composer at NUNC!2, presenting, teaching, and coaching at Northwestern University's Festival of New Music, Chicago, November, 2015Conference Paper, 2015
Electronic Theatre in eyam iv (Pluto's Farthest Moons) in, editor(s)Dániel Péter Biró, Jonathan Goldman, Detlef Heusinger, Constanze Stratz , Live Electronics in the SWR Experimentalstudio, Germany, Hofheim Wolke Verlag, 2019, pp293 - 301, [Ann Cleare]Book Chapter, 2019
Ann Cleare, 'Ceo, Glór, Eitilt', Ireland, Contemporary Music Centre, 2019, -Musical Score, 2019
Ann Cleare, 'Solo Portrait Concert performed by Riot Ensemble, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival', 2019, -Music Production, 2019, URL
Ann Cleare, 'Solo Portrait Concert performed by Musikfabrik, Cologne, October 2019', Cologne, Germany, 2019, -Music Production, 2019, URL
Places in my Music/My Music in Places in, editor(s)John Zorn , Arcana IX: Musicians on Music, New York, Hip Roads, 2021, pp47 - 55, [Ann Cleare]Book Chapter, 2021, URL
Ann Cleare, Guest Composer at Yarn/Wire Summer Institute, Stony Brook University/Online, Stony Brook University, USA/Online, June , 2020Conference Paper, 2020
Ann Cleare, Guest Presenter at Webinar on 'Re-Making the Creative Arts Canon, Re-Imagining the Creative Arts Curriculum', Online, NUI Galway, 12/02, 2020Conference Paper, 2020
Ann Cleare, Guest Composer at Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice, New England Conservatory, Boston/Online, 16-25/06, 2020Conference Paper, 2020, URL
Ann Cleare, 'Tintrí (Lightings) for Mezzo-Soprano and Piano', Commissioned by Kissinger Sommer, Germany. Premiered 11 July 2021, 2021, -Musical Score, 2021
Ann Cleare, 'Fossil Lights for quartet', Commissioned by the Office for Public Works and the National Concert Hall. Premiered by Musikfabrik, Berlin Philharmonic, 5 Sept., 2021, -Musical Score, 2021
Ann Cleare, SPARK OFF A FIRE MEMORIES OF MY COMPOSITION TEACHER CHAYA CZERNOWIN, NEUE ZEITSCHRIFT FUR MUSIK, 2020Journal Article, 2020, URL
A Silent Building Sings and Radically Changes its Matter: On Ann Cleare's a Sonic Theatre in, One Here Now: The Brian O'Doherty / Patrick Ireland Project, Ireland, co-published by Sirius Arts Centre and Paper Visual Art, 2019, pp74 - 88, [Mary-Ruth Walshe & Ann Cleare]Book Chapter, 2019, URL
Ann Cleare, 'the physics of fog, swirling for large ensemble', Luxembourg, Rainy Days Festival,, 2021, -Music Production, 2021, URL
Ann Cleare, 'mire| |veins for brass quintet, performed by Ensemble Apparat,', Luxembourg, Schott Music, 2021, -Music Production, 2021, URL
Ann Cleare, 'performance of eyam i (it takes an ocean not to) for Bb Clarinet by Carol McGonnell & Argento, National Opera Centre/Online, New York, USA Chamber Ensemble', Schott Music, 2021, -Music Production, 2021, URL
Ann Cleare, 'Tintrí (Lightings) for Mezzo-Soprano and Piano, Ekaterina Chayka-Rubinstein and Jan Philip Schulze', Bad Kissingen, Germany, 2021, -Music Production, 2021
Ann Cleare, 'performance of eyam iii by Rachel Beetz, Summer Institute of Contemporary Performance Practice, New England Conservatory', Boston, USA/Online, Schott Music, 2021, -Music Production, 2021, URL
Ann Cleare, 'performance of Inner by Louise McMonagle and Neil Georgeson, Saint Anne's Kew, London, UK', 2021, -Music Production, 2021, URL
Ann Cleare, 'performance of I am not a clockmaker either for accordion and electronics by Bastien Pouillés & Giovanni Onorato, Royal College of Music (Kungliga Musikhögskolan) & Online', Stockholm, Sweden, 2021, -Music Production, 2021, URL
Ann Cleare, 'surface station #2: the relighting of the sun for double-bell trumpet with electronic sculpture and video', Primrose Potter Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre, Australia, 2021, -Music Production, 2021, URL
Ann Cleare, 'where cobalt waves live for piano, performed by Daniel Browell/Hard Rain Ensemble', Northern Ireland / Online, 2021, -Music Production, 2021, URL
Ann Cleare, 'performance of 93 million miles away for violin, cello, and piano', Wien Modern, Vienna/London/Online, Schott Music, 2020, -Music Production, 2020, URL
Ann Cleare, 'performance of Inner by Sarah Saviet and Joseph Houston, KM28, Berlin, Germany', 2020, -Music Production, 2020, URL
Ann Cleare, 'where cobalt waves live for piano, performed by Mabel Kwan, In the Key of Now: Online Concert,', Chicago, USA/ Online, 2020, -Music Production, 2020, URL
Ann Cleare, 'Spiral Nebula', developed in collaboration with Fiona Breen, Mary Cooney Power, and Brendan Farrell,, Birr Castle, Offaly, 2020, -Music Production, 2020
Ann Cleare, 'performance of surface station #1: in the upper atmosphere by Samuel Stoll, NUMU Concert Series, Baden, Switzerland', Baden, Switzerland, 2020, -Music Production, 2020, URL
Ann Cleare, 'performance of Inner by Austin Wulliman and Conrad Tao, Miller Theatre, New York, USA', 2020, -Music Production, 2020
Ann Cleare, 'performance of Inner by Handwerk, Freiburg, Germany', 2020, -Music Production, 2020, URL
Ann Cleare, 'performance of I am not a clockmaker either for piano and electronics by Malgorzata Walentynowicz, Gdanck New Music Days, Poland', 2020, -Music Production, 2020, URL
Ann Cleare, 'The Little Lives', The Little Lives: an Opera, 2022, -Musical Score, 2022, URL
Ann Cleare, 'anfa for augmented contrabass flute with visuals', New York, 2021, -Musical Score, 2021, URL
Ann Cleare, 'performance of I am not a clockmaker either for piano and electronics at Ljubljana New Music Forum', Slovenia, 2021, -Music Production, 2021, URL
Ann Cleare, 'performance of Inner by House of Fire, Neighborhood Unitarian Church, California, USA', 2021, -Music Production, 2021
Ann Cleare, 'performance of 93 million miles away for violin, cello, and piano, performed by Uusinta Ensemble, Kallio Church, Helsinki, Finland', Finland, 2021, -Music Production, 2021
Ann Cleare, 'the physics of fog, swirling for large ensemble performed by the Cabinet of Curiosities, Goethe-Institut Hall, Tokyo, Japan', 2021, -Music Production, 2021
Ann Cleare, 'Periscope 1: Léas for voice, A gift for the Royal Academy of Music's 200th Birthday Celebration, Royal Academy of Music, London, UK', 2022, -Musical Score, 2022
Ann Cleare, 'Ceo|Glór|Eitilt for voice and piano, performance by Gavan Ring & Fiachra Garvey, Streamed from Wigmore Hall, London, UK', London, UK, 2022, -Music Production, 2022, URL
Ann Cleare, 'performance of Dorchadas for ensemble by International Ensemble Modern Academy, Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst (HfMDK), Frankfurt, Germany', 2022, -Music Production, 2022
Ann Cleare, 'The Little Lives: An Opera', 2022, -Music Production, 2022
Ann Cleare, 'Dorchadas for ensemble, supported by Akademie Schloss Solitude, 12 mins, 2007, published by Schott ', Project Schott New York, 2007, -Musical Score, 2007, URL
Ann Cleare, 'Periscope 1: Léas, performed by Angharad Rowlands, Angela Burgess Recital Hall, Royal Academy of Music, London, UK', 2022, -Music Production, 2022
Ann Cleare, 'anfa for augmented contrabass flute with visuals, Premiere by Claire Chase, Flute, The Kitchen, New York ', 2021, -Music Production, 2021
Ann Cleare, 'Fossil Lights for quartet, Premiere by Musikfabrik, Berlin Philharmonic', 2021, -Music Production, 2021
Ann Cleare, 'the physics of fog, swirling for large ensemble and live electronics, performance by Kollektiv Ensemble, Wittenertage Festival, Germany 2019 ', 2019, -Music Production, 2019, URL
Ann Cleare, 'the physics of fog, swirling for large ensemble and live electronics, Performance by Musikfabrik, Berlin Philharmonie', 2021, -Music Production, 2021, URL
Ann Cleare, 'Earth Waves for Solo Trombone, Spatialised Vocal Ensemble, and Moving Electronics, William Lang and Ekmeles Vocal Ensemble, DiMenna Centre, New York', 2018, -Music Production, 2018
Ann Cleare, 'where cobalt waves live for solo piano, performances by pianists of The Dublin International Piano Festival', 2018, -Music Production, 2018
Ann Cleare, 'teeth of light, tongue of waves, performance by The International Contemporary Ensemble, Miller Theatre, New York ', 2018, -Music Production, 2018
Ann Cleare, 'Performance of teeth of light, tongue of waves by The International Contemporary Ensemble, Lincoln Centre, New York', 2019, -Music Production, 2019
Ann Cleare, 'performance of teeth of light, tongue of waves by Riot Ensemble, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival', 2019, -Music Production, 2019
Ann Cleare, 'One Here Now: A Sonic Theatre, Performance by Tonnta Vocal Ensemble, Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, Ireland', 2018, -Music Production, 2018
Ann Cleare, 'surface station #2: the relighting of the sun, for double bell trumpet, electronic sculpture and lights, Performance by Callum G'Froerer, Unerhörte Musik, Berlin', 2018, -Music Production, 2018
Ann Cleare, 'surface station #2: the relighting of the sun, performance by Callum G'Froerer, PROGR Foundation, Berne, Switzerland', 2018, -Music Production, 2018
Ann Cleare, 'fiáin, performance by Crash Ensemble, Mountshannon Arts Festival, Co. Clare, Ireland', 2017, -Music Production, 2017
Ann Cleare, 'fiáin, performance by Crash Ensemble, National Concert Hall, Dublin', 2017, -Music Production, 2017
Ann Cleare, 'fiáin, Performance by Crash Ensemble, GAIDA Festival of Music, Lithuania', 2017, -Music Production, 2017
Ann Cleare, 'fiáin, Performance by Ensemble Vortex, Festival Archipel, Geneva, Switzerland', 2019, -Music Production, 2019
Ann Cleare, 'performance of 93 million miles away for violin, cello, and piano by Contemporary Insights Ensemble, Kultuehalle, Leipzig, Germany', 2019, -Music Production, 2019
Ann Cleare, 'performance of 93 million miles away for violin, cello, and piano by The Riot Ensemble, Petworth Festival of Music, UK', 2019, -Music Production, 2019
Ann Cleare, 'performance of 93 million miles away for violin, cello, and piano by The Fidelio Trio, Beijing Festival of Modern Music, China', 2019, -Music Production, 2019
Ann Cleare, 'performance of 93 million miles away for violin, cello, and piano by The Fidelio Trio, Tufts University, Boston, USA', 2019, -Music Production, 2019
Ann Cleare, 'performance of 93 million miles away for violin, cello, and piano by The Fidelio Trio, National Concert Hall, Dublin', 2019, -Music Production, 2019
Ann Cleare, 'performance by 93 million miles away for violin, cello, and piano, The Long Leash Trio, Aula Maxima, UCC, Cork', 2019, -Music Production, 2019
Ann Cleare, 'performance by The Fidelio Trio, Spitalfields Festival, London', 2018, -Music Production, 2018
Ann Cleare, 'performance by Ensemble Platypus, Echoraum, Vienna', 2018, -Music Production, 2018
Ann Cleare, 'performance by The Fidelio Trio, York University, UK', 2018, -Music Production, 2018
Ann Cleare, 'performance by The Fidelio Trio, National Concert Hall, Dublin', 2018, -Music Production, 2018
Ann Cleare, 'performance of ore by Musikfabrik, Cologne Portrait Concert', 2019, -Music Production, 2019
Ann Cleare, 'performance of ore by Musikfabrik, Berlin Philharmonie', 2021, -Music Production, 2021
Ann Cleare, 'performance of ore by Contrechamps, Festival de Geneve, Switzerland', 2018, -Music Production, 2018
Ann Cleare, 'performance of ore by ensemble mosaik, Akademie der Kunst, Darmstadt, Germany', 2018, -Music Production, 2018
Ann Cleare, 'performance of eöl by Musikfabrik, Cologne Portrait Concert', 2019, -Music Production, 2019
Ann Cleare, 'performance of eyam iv (Pluto's Farthest Moons) by Ensemble Caput, HARPA, Iceland', 2018, -Music Production, 2018
Ann Cleare, 'performance of eyam iv (Pluto's Farthest Moons) by Riot Ensemble, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, UK,', 2019, -Music Production, 2019
Ann Cleare, 'performance of the square of yellow light that is your window by Ensemble Nikel, Darmtadt Festival, Germany', 2018, -Music Production, 2018
Ann Cleare, 'performance of the square of yellow light that is your window by Nief-Norf, Natalie L. Haslam Centre, Knoxville, USA', 2018, -Music Production, 2018
Ann Cleare, 'performance of the square of yellow light that is your window by Ensemble Nikel, Felica Blumenthal Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel', 2018, -Music Production, 2018
Ann Cleare, 'performance of the square of yellow light that is your window by Ensemble Nikel, Nauriz Music Festival, Kazakhstan', 2018, -Music Production, 2018
Ann Cleare, 'performance of the square of yellow light that is your window by International Contemporary Ensemble, Miller Theatre, New York', 2018, -Music Production, 2018
Ann Cleare, 'performance of the square of yellow light that is your window by International Contemporary Ensemble, Frequency Festival, Constellation, Chicago ', 2018, -Music Production, 2018
Ann Cleare, 'performance of the square of yellow light that is your window by International Contemporary Ensemble, Ultraschall Festival, Berlin, Germany', 2018, -Music Production, 2018
Ann Cleare, 'performance of the square of yellow light that is your window by ICTUS, Ghent, Belgium', 2020, -Music Production, 2020
Ann Cleare, 'eyam iii (if it's living somewhere outside of you) for bass flute, 16 mins, commissioned by Richard Craig', 2013, -Musical Score, 2013
Ann Cleare, 'performance of eyam iii Ensemble Dal Niente, Kemp Recital Hall, Illinois, USA', 2018, -Music Production, 2018
Ann Cleare, 'performance of eyam iii by collective lovemusic, Strasbourg, France', 2019, -Music Production, 2019
Ann Cleare, 'performance of eyam iii by by Leia Slosberg, Mise-en-Place, New York', 2019, -Music Production, 2019
Ann Cleare, 'performance of eyam iii by ensemble mosaik, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland', 2018, -Music Production, 2018
Ann Cleare, 'performance of eyam iii by Musikfabrik, WDR Concert Hall, Cologne', 2018, -Music Production, 2018
Ann Cleare, 'performance of eyam iii by Roberta Michel, La General NE, Paris, France', 2018, -Music Production, 2018
Ann Cleare, 'performance of eyam iii by Laura Cocks, 1850 Amsterdam Ave, New York', 2018, -Music Production, 2018
Ann Cleare, 'performance of luna for saxophone by Michele Bianchini, Contrasti Festival, Trente, Italy', 2019, -Music Production, 2019
Ann Cleare, 'performance of luna for saxophone by Ryan Muncy, Unerhörte Musik, Berlin', 2019, -Music Production, 2019
Ann Cleare, 'performance of luna for saxophone by Nicole Strum, Mount Allison College, Canada', 2018, -Music Production, 2018
Ann Cleare, 'performance of luna for saxophone by Ryan Muncy, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, USA', 2018, -Music Production, 2018
Ann Cleare, 'performance of luna/lithe/lair by ensemble mosaik, Kesselhaus, Berlin', 2019, -Music Production, 2019
Ann Cleare, 'performance of luna/lithe/lair by LSTwo, Leeds University, UK', 2019, -Music Production, 2019
Ann Cleare, 'performance of I should live in wires for leaving you behind by Gageego Ensemble, Gothenburg Concert Hall, Sweden', 2018, -Music Production, 2018
Ann Cleare, 'performance of eyam i by Contemporary Insights Ensemble, Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig', 2019, -Music Production, 2019
Ann Cleare, 'performance of eyam i by Heather Roche, Rainy Days Festival, Luxembourg', 2018, -Music Production, 2018
Ann Cleare, 'performance of eyam i by Carol McGonnell, Great Music in Irish Houses, Dublin', 2018, -Music Production, 2018
Ann Cleare, 'performance of to another of that other by The International Contemporary Ensemble, Miller Theatre, New York', 2018, -Music Production, 2018
Ann Cleare, 'performance of phôsphors (...of ether) by UC Davis Symphony, Mondavi Centre for the Performing Arts, California, USA', 2019, -Music Production, 2019
Ann Cleare, 'performance of mire | | veins by Musikfabrik, Berlin Philharmonie, Germany', 2021, -Music Production, 2021
Ann Cleare, 'performance of mire | | veins by Musikfabrik, Cologne Portrait Concert, Germany', 2019, -Music Production, 2019
Ann Cleare, 'performance of on magnetic fields by Riot Ensemble, Goldsmiths University, London, UK', 2018, -Music Production, 2018
Ann Cleare, 'performance of on magnetic fields by Musikfabrik, Ernst von Siemens Composer Award, Prinzregententheatre, Munich, Germany', 2019, -Music Production, 2019
Ann Cleare, 'performance of on magnetic fields by Musikfabrik, Cologne Portrait Concert, Germany', 2019, -Music Production, 2019
Ann Cleare, 'performance of on magnetic fields by Riot Ensemble, Huddersfield Contemporary Ensemble, UK', 2019, -Music Production, 2019
Ann Cleare, 'performance of on magnetic fields by Musikfabrik, Berlin Philharmonie, Germany', 2021, -Music Production, 2021
Ann Cleare, 'I am not a clockmaker either for keyboard instrument and electronics, supported by IRCAM', 2008, -Musical Score, 2008
Ann Cleare, 'performance of I am not a clockmaker either by Tizia Zimmermann, Musikhochschule Berne, Switzerland', 2020, -Music Production, 2020
Ann Cleare, 'performance of I am not a clockmaker either by airbourne ensemble, Unit 3, James Joyce Street, Dublin', 2019, -Music Production, 2019
Ann Cleare, 'performance of I am not a clockmaker either airbourne ensemble, Sonic Arts Research Centre, Belfast', 2019, -Music Production, 2019
Ann Cleare, 'performance of I am not a clockmaker either by Julia den Boer, Aréte Gallery, New York', 2019, -Music Production, 2019
Ann Cleare, 'performance of I am not a clockmaker either by Stephane Ginsburgh, Columbia University Global Centre, Paris', 2019, -Music Production, 2019
Ann Cleare, 'performance of I am not a clockmaker either by Julia den Boer, Frequency Festival, Constellation, Chicago', 2019, -Music Production, 2019
Ann Cleare, 'performance of I am not a clockmaker either by Keith Kirchoff, SLIPCE Festival, Western Michigan University, USA', 2018, -Music Production, 2018
Ann Cleare, 'performance of I am not a clockmaker either by Krassimir Sterev, Felica Blumenthal Centre, Tel Aviv, Israel', 2018, -Music Production, 2018
Ann Cleare, 'performance of I am not a clockmaker either by Krassimir Sterev, GNOM Concert Series, Baden, Switzerland', 2018, -Music Production, 2018
Ann Cleare, 'Inner for string instrument and piano, supported by Harvard University', 2009, -Musical Score, 2009
Ann Cleare, 'performance of Inner by by handwerk, Rheinsburg Church, Germany', 2019, -Music Production, 2019
Ann Cleare, 'performance of Inner by Sarah Saviet and Joseph Houston, Radial System, Berlin, Germany', 2020, -Music Production, 2020
Ann Cleare, 'performance of Inner by handwerk, Kunststation St. Peter, Cologne, Germany', 2019, -Music Production, 2019
Ann Cleare, 'performance of Inner by The Curious Chamber Players, Silence Festival, Lapland', 2018, -Music Production, 2018
Ann Cleare, 'unable to create an offscreen world a, b & c for electronics, duo, quintet, supported by Harvard University', 2010, -Musical Score, 2010
Ann Cleare, 'performance of unable to create an offscreen world by WasteLAnd, Walt Disney Hall, LA', 2019, -Music Production, 2019
Ann Cleare, 'performance of unable to create an offscreen world by TAK Ensemble, Album Launch Concert, New York', 2019, -Music Production, 2019
Ann Cleare, 'performance of Dorchadas by Resident Ensemble, SoundSCAPE Festival, Cesena, Italy', 2018, -Music Production, 2018
Ann Cleare, 'performance of Dorchadas by The International Contemporary Ensemble, Miller Theatre, New York', 2018, -Music Production, 2018
Ann Cleare, 'Inner for cello and piano, performance by Louise McMonagle and Neil Georgeson, Music & Wine at St. Lukes, Brighton, UK', 2022, -Music Production, 2022
Ann Cleare, 'I am not a clockmaker either for piano and electronics, performance by Isabelle O'Connell, New Music Dublin, National Concert Hall, Ireland', 2022, -Music Production, 2022
Ann Cleare, '93 million miles away for violin, cello, and piano, performed by Collegium Novum Zürich, Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich, Switzerland', 2022, -Music Production, 2022
Ann Cleare, 'Fossil Lights for quartet, performance by Musikfabrik, National Concert Hall, Dublin, Ireland', 2022, -Music Production, 2022
Ann Cleare, 'Fossil Lights for quartet, performance by Musikfabrik, Studio Musikfabrik, Cologne,Germany', 2022, -Music Production, 2022
Ann Cleare, 'eyam i (it takes an ocean not to) for Solo Bb Clarinet, performance by Carlos Cardeiro, University of Music Chamber Hall, Freiburg, Germany', 2022, -Music Production, 2022
Ann Cleare, 'performance of where cobalt waves live by Emma Mistele, Yarn/Wire Institute, DiMenna Centre, New York, USA', 2022, -Music Production, 2022
Ann Cleare, 'Inner for cello and piano, performance by Trio Feedback & ARTSOM, Mostra Sonora, València,Spain', 2022, -Music Production, 2022
Ann Cleare, 'fiáin for string quintet, performance by Crash Ensemble, West Cork Chamber Festival, Cork, Ireland', 2022, -Music Production, 2022
Ann Cleare, 'performance of Inner for cello and piano by Tempus Konnex, Leipzig, Germany', 2022, -Music Production, 2022
Ann Cleare, 'performance of I am not a clockmaker either for piano and electronics, by Ensemble Suono Giallo, Il Suono Contemporary Music Week, Auditorium Santa Chiara Sansepolcro, Tuscany, Italy', 2022, -Music Production, 2022
Ann Cleare, 'performance of Surface station #1: in the upper atmosphere for extended French horn solo,premiere by Samuel Stoll, Dialog Series, Gard du Nord, Basel, Switzerland', 2017, -Music Production, 2017
Ann Cleare, 'eyam i (it takes an ocean not to) for Bb Clarinet,performed by Carol McGonnell,The Barnes Collection,Philadelphia, USA', 2017, -Music Production, 2017
Ann Cleare, 'eyam v (woven) for contrabass flute, contrabass clarinet, and orchestra, premiered by soloists Richard Craig and Carol McGonnell, and the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Gavin Maloney,National Concert Hall,Dublin, Ireland', 2017, -Music Production, 2017
Ann Cleare, 'Inner for cello and piano,performance by Duo TÖ, Anna Christensson and Torun Sæter Staving,Förstaparkett,Stockholm, Sweden', 2017, -Music Production, 2017
Ann Cleare, Places in my Music/My Music in Places, Tempus Konnex's International Composer Exchange Week, Leipzig, Germany, 2022Conference Paper, 2022
Ann Cleare, Places in my Music/My Music in Places, Yarn/Wire International Institute, Stony Brook University, USA, 2022Conference Paper, 2022
Ann Cleare, 'performance of luna (the eye that opens the other eye) for solo alto saxophone, performed by Casey Grev,Centre for New Music, San Francisco, USA', 2017, -Music Production, 2017
Ann Cleare, 'performance of eyam iii (if it's living somewhere outside of you) for solo bass flute and two shadowing instruments, performance by Laura Cocks & TAK,Niente/Forte Festival at Tulane University, New Orleans, USA', 2017, -Music Production, 2017
Ann Cleare, 'performance of the square of yellow light that is your window for quartet, performance by The International Contemporary Ensemble, Williams College, Massachusetts, USA', 2017, -Music Production, 2017
Ann Cleare, 'performance of eyam i (it takes an ocean not to) for solo Bb Clarinet, performed by Kathryn Vetter, School of Music, University of Oklahoma, USA', 2017, -Music Production, 2017
Ann Cleare, 'performance of 4 x 4 miniature for two French Horns and two Trombones,performed by Samuel Stoll, Adrian Städeli, Stephen Menotti, and Jon Roskilly, Geben Sie Zeit Räume, Kantonsbibliothek Baselland, Liestal, Switzerland', 2017, -Music Production, 2017
Ann Cleare, 'performance of unable to create an offscreen world (b) for piccolo and percussion, performance by Lina Andonovska and Alex Petcu Colan, Lutheran Hall,Dublin, Ireland', 2017, -Music Production, 2017
Ann Cleare, 'performance of the square of yellow light that is your window for quartet, performance by Ensemble Nikel, Adevantgarde Festival, Black Box, Gasteig, Munich, Germany', 2017, -Music Production, 2017
Ann Cleare, 'performance of luna (the eye that opens the other eye) for solo alto saxophone, performed by Ryan Muncy/International Contemporary Ensemble, Miller Theatre at Columbia University, New York, USA', 2017, -Music Production, 2017
Ann Cleare, 'performance of IRK for violin and electronics, performance by Aysel Taghi-Zada & Jenn Kirby, soundSCAPE Festival, Maccagno, Italy', 2017, -Music Production, 2017
Ann Cleare, 'performance of eyam iii (if it's living somewhere outside of you) for solo bass flute, performance by Bettina Junge/ensemble mosaik, mosaik 20th Birthday Celebrations, Acker Stadt Palast, Berlin, Germany', 2017, -Music Production, 2017
Ann Cleare, 'performance of ore for clarinet and string trio, performance by Distractfold, Kalv Festival, Gothenburg, Sweden', 2017, -Music Production, 2017
Ann Cleare, 'performance of eyam iii (if it's living somewhere outside of you) for solo bass flute, performed by Richard Craig, Kalv Festival, Gothenburg, Sweden', 2017, -Music Production, 2017
Ann Cleare, 'performance of eyam iii (if it's living somewhere outside of you) for solo bass flute, performance by Bettina Junge/ensemble mosaik, Visual Resonance at Cycle Music and Art Festival, Gerðarsafn - Kópavogur Art Museum, Kópavogur, Iceland', 2017, -Music Production, 2017
Ann Cleare, 'performance of to another of that other for clarinet(s), trumpet, and trombone, performance by ELISION, Shanghai New Music Week, Shanghai Conservatory of Music, China', 2017, -Music Production, 2017
Ann Cleare, 'performance of surface station #2: the relighting of the sun for double-bell trumpet with electronic sculpture and lights, performance/presentation by Callum G'Froerer, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Sydney, Australia', 2017, -Music Production, 2017
Ann Cleare, 'perfomance of surface station #2: the relighting of the sun for double-bell trumpet with electronic sculpture and lights, performance by Callum G'Froerer, la la la concert series, Sydney, Australia', 2017, -Music Production, 2017
Ann Cleare, 'performance of surface station #2: the relighting of the sun for double-bell trumpet with electronic sculpture and lights, performance by Callum G'Froerer, Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne, Australia', 2017, -Music Production, 2017
Ann Cleare, 'performance of ore for clarinet and string trio, performance by ensemble mosaik, Traiettorie Festival, Parma, Italy', 2017, -Music Production, 2017
Ann Cleare, 'performance of luna (the eye that opens the other eye) for solo alto saxophone, performed by Ryan Muncy/International Contemporary Ensemble, OpenICE at Corbett vs. Dempsey Gallery, Chicago, USA', 2017, -Music Production, 2017
Ann Cleare, 'performance of re for clarinet and string trio, performance by ensemble mosaik, Klangwerkstatt Berlin, Festival für Neue Musik, Berlin, Germany', 2017, -Music Production, 2017
Ann Cleare, 'performance of the square of yellow light that is your window for quartet, performance by Ensemble Nikel,Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik, Bludenz, Austria', 2017, -Music Production, 2017
Ann Cleare, 'performance of I should live in wires for leaving you behind for piano and percussion, performance by Yarn/Wire, Rainy Days Festival, Luxembourg', 2017, -Music Production, 2017
Ann Cleare, 'performance of fiáin for violin, viola, cello, electric guitar, and electric bass guitar, performance by Crash Ensemble, CrashLands at The National Concert Hall, Dublin, Ireland', 2017, -Music Production, 2017
Ann Cleare, 'performance of the square of yellow light that is your window for quartet, performance by Ensemble Nikel, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Yorkshire, England', 2017, -Music Production, 2017
Ann Cleare, 'performance of eyam iii (if it's living somewhere outside of you) for solo bass flute and two shadowing instruments, performance by Kamraton, Irma Freeman Center for Imagination, Pittsburgh, USA', 2017, -Music Production, 2017
Ann Cleare, 'performance of 93 million miles away for violin, cello, and piano, performance by LONGLEASH Trio, Bailey Powell Elebash Recital Hall @ CUNY, New York, USA', 2017, -Music Production, 2017
Ann Cleare, 'performance of ore for clarinet and string trio, performance by ensemble mosaik, Kunstraum, Tosterglope, Germany', 2017, -Music Production, 2017
Ann Cleare, 'MIDHE', for solo voices, solo accordion, spatialised choir, orchestra, 2023, -Musical Score, 2023
Ann Cleare, 'Gravity Dreams ii', for two pianos, Miller Theatre, Columbia Univeristy, 2023, -Musical Score, 2023, URL
Ann Cleare, 'Gravity Dreams iii (orbiting)', for two electric guitars, 2023, -Musical Score, 2023
Ann Cleare, Recording/CD Release of anfa for augmented contrabass flute with visuals by Ailbhe Ní Bhriain (2021), 2022, -Miscellaneous, 2022, URL
Ann Cleare, An Cúigiú Cúige, 2023, -Miscellaneous, 2023
Ann Cleare, Recent Works & Practice, Stanford University, 5/12/23, 2023, Stanford UniversityInvited Talk, 2023
Ann Cleare, 'TERRARIUM', Dublin, Ireland, 2024, -Musical Score, 2024
Ann Cleare, 'gravity dreams iv', 2024, -Musical Score, 2024
Ann Cleare, 'Meridians', Dublin, Ireland, 2024, -Musical Score, 2024
Ann Cleare, 'eyam iii (if it's living somewhere outside of you), performed by Roberta Michel/ PinkNoise, Scholes Street Studio, Brooklyn, New York, USA for solo bass flute,', 2022, -Music Production, 2022, URL
Ann Cleare, 'Inner for cello and pianperformed by Curious Chamber Players, Cinnober Teater, Göteborg, Sweden', 2022, -Music Production, 2022
Ann Cleare, 'I am not a clockmaker either for piano and electronics & luna (the eye that opens the other eye) for saxophone, performed by Ensemble Suono Giallo, Mixtur Festival, Barcelona, Spain', 2022, -Music Production, 2022
Ann Cleare, 'Dysmorphia II for viola, cello, double bass, performance by Red Note Ensemble, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Phipps Hall, Huddersfield, England', 2022, -Music Production, 2022
Ann Cleare, 'on magnetic fields for two violins and one loudspeaker, performance by International Ensemble Modern Academy, Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts (HfMDK), Frankfurt, Germany', 2022, -Musical Score, 2022
Ann Cleare, MIDHE: Perspectives in Interdisciplinary Practice, June in Buffalo, Buffalo, USA, June 5 to 12, 2023, 2023Conference Paper, 2023
Ann Cleare, MIDHE: Perspectives on Interdisciplinary Practice, Il Suono Contemporary Music Week, Sansepolcro, Italy, 2023Conference Paper, 2023

Dr. Ann Cleare, Guest Composer at Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, December 2 & 3, 2019Invited Talk
Dr. Ann Cleare, Guest Presentation at DIT Conservatory of Music, Dublin, December , 2018, DIT Conservatory of Music, DublinInvited Talk
Dr. Ann Cleare, Guest Panelist, Fremde/Heimat - Komponieren im Exil, Bochum Concert Hall, Germany, October, 2018Invited Talk
Dr. Ann Cleare, Guest Panelist, 'are we there yet?': discussion on current composition trends, performance practice, critical perspectives, and new directions as part of Dublin Sound Lab's Music Current Festival, Ireland, April , 2018, Dublin Sound LabInvited Talk
Dr. Ann Cleare, Guest presenter at Columbia University, New York, February, 2018Invited Talk
Dr. Ann Cleare, Guest presenter at University of Western Australia, October , 2017Invited Talk
Dr. Ann Cleare, Guest Presenter at The Sydney Conservatorium , October , 2017Invited Talk
Dr. Ann Cleare, Guest artist, CultureSummit, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi, April, 2017Invited Talk
Dr. Ann Cleare, Guest panelist for New Opera in Ireland in the 21st Century, CMC, Dublin, Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland, March, 2017Invited Talk
Dr. Ann Cleare, Guest presentation at CeReNeM, University of Huddersfield, UK, March , 2017Invited Talk
Dr. Ann Cleare, Guest presentation at Musik-Akademie Basel, Switzerland, January, 2017Invited Talk
Dr. Ann Cleare, Guest Discussant with Roger Reynolds, Shaping Form, Darmstadt, Germany, August, 2016Invited Talk
Dr. Ann Cleare, Guest Panelist for Can Music Change the World? Dublin Piano Festival, July , 2016Invited Talk
Dr. Ann Cleare, Guest Artist at Campus Musikfabrik, Cologne, Germany, February, 2016Invited Talk
Dr. Ann Cleare, Guest Presentation at Maynooth University's Department of Music, December, 2015Invited Talk
Dr. Ann Cleare, Guest Presentation at the University of California, San Diego's Music Department, USA, April, 2014Invited Talk
Dr. Ann Cleare, Guest Presenter at University College Cork's Music Seminar Series, Ireland, February, 2013Invited Talk
Dr. Ann Cleare, Guest Composer (presenting and teaching) at The New England Conservatory's Composer Presentations, Boston, USA, April, 2011Invited Talk
Ann Cleare, Guest Composer at lineuponline's Composer Talks, Online/Texas, 16/10, 2020, lineuponlineInvited Talk, URL
Ann Cleare, Guest Composer at The University of Buffalo Colloquia, The University of Buffalo, USA/Online, 16/11, 2020Invited Talk
Ann Cleare, Guest Composer, Royal Academy of Music, London, London/Online, 12/03, 2020Invited Talk
Derek Scally/Ann Cleare, Loud and Cleare: The Offaly woman wowing audiences with breakthrough sounds, Irish Times, (11/09/2021), 2021Review Article, URL
Dr. Ann Cleare, Places in my Music/ My Music in Places, Visiting Artist of Composition Seminars, Boston Conservatory at Berklee/Online, 3/11/21, 2021, Boston Conservatory at BerkleeInvited Talk
Ann Cleare, 'Inner for viola and piano', performed at ISCM World New Music Days 2022, New Zealand, 2022, -Music Production
Ann Cleare, 'Fossil Light', 2022, -Music Production
Ann Cleare, 'Spiral Nebula, an interdisciplinary collaboration with Fiona Breen, Mary Cooney Power, and Brendan Farrell, OFFLINE Film Festival, Courtyard Projections, Birr, Ireland', 2022, -Musical Score

Research Expertise

I am an artist and technologist, creating and researching through the medium of sound. This research extends to the areas of concert music, opera, sonic environments (site-specific, installation works), and hybrid instrumental design, involving both hardware design and software engineering.

I am particularly fascinated by timbre (the colour of sound) and texture (the physicality of sound), and how these parameters can be engaged in order to explore places, people, and ideas through sound. In all of my work, my goal lies in expressing the sound of now, the sonic texture of what it means to be alive in the 21st century.

Examples of current and future research involves the national and international presentations of the following large-scale projects, which investigate subjects ranging from Information Wars to the Regeneration of Rural Ireland to the Climate Emergency:

- The Little Lives, a new opera, 1.5 hours in duration, commissioned by The City of Munich for Munich Biennale, to be premiered in May 2022. A collaboration with Scottish author A.L. Kennedy, The Little Lives explores the effect of powerful propaganda on the domestic and national scale and the progressive and regressive roles of national identity in post-colonial Ireland/UK

- MIDHE, a new large-scale work for moving voices, large chorus, orchestra, commissioned by RTÉ to be premiered in The National Concert Hall in April 2023. Connecting to the Midlands of Ireland, and particularly to the ancient, lost province of Midhe, this work seeks to recover, reclaim, and reanimate perceptions of the Midland region and to explore how its past can teach us many democratic and environmental lessons about our future.

- TERRARIUM, an interdisciplinary project, will be developed in collaboration with Crash Ensemble, Ireland's leading Contemporary Music Ensemble, which I am artist-in-residence with, throughout 2023 to 2025. By imaginatively weaving the disciplines of land art, music, extended realities, and geology into an expressive tool for cultural exploration, this project will literally allow the public to see more deeply into the world around them, encouraging an awareness of our place in deep time and our responsibility to the epochs and beings that will follow us.

Title

Sherman/Petcu Duo

Summary

A commissioned new work for viola and percussion for Nathan Sherman and Alex Petcu. Commissioned by New Music Dublin

Funding Agency

New Music Dublin

Date From

01/09/2023

Date To

01/05/2024
Title

Meridians II

Summary

Patrick Stadler, Marcus Weiss, Bozzini Quartet, for two saxophones and string quartet, to be premiered at Internationale Musikinstitut Darmstadt 2025, with funds from the Arts Council of Ireland, Germany, 2025

Funding Agency

Internationale Musikinstitut Darmstadt 2025

Date From

September 2024

Date To

August 2025
Title

Meridians I

Summary

for clarinet & string quartet, Carol McGonnell & The JACK Quartet, commissioned by Dublin International Chamber Music Festival, with funds from the Arts Council of Ireland,

Funding Agency

Dublin International Chamber Music Festival

Date From

Sept 2023

Date To

June 2024
Title

Arts Council Bursary

Summary

Developmental Work for upcoming projects

Funding Agency

Arts Council of Ireland
Title

rinn: a video opera

Summary

rinn: a film version of a recent chamber opera, developed with funds from the Next Generation Bursary, Arts Council of Ireland, 2018-23

Funding Agency

Arts Council of Ireland

Date From

01/01/2018

Date To

01/01/24
Title

Composition Fellow

Summary

Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Perugia, Italy, 2023

Funding Agency

Civitella Ranieri Foundation

Date From

14/06/23

Date To

24/07/23
Title

New Cycle of Works/Multi-Layered Theatre

Summary

for brass instruments and electronic sculptures in extended concert/theatre environments,

for Callum G'Froerer, Max Murray, Weston Olencki, and Samuel Stoll,

Developed with funds from The Arts Council of Ireland's Music Bursary Award 2016,The Australian Arts Council

Ireland/Germany/Australia/USA, 2017-2025

Funding Agency

The Arts Council of Ireland, The Australian Arts Council

Date From

01/01/2017

Date To

01/01/2025
Title

Development Bursary

Summary

to create new immersive musical experiences that integrates practices from performance art, movement, sculpture, and text-based art forms
- to finance the collaborative processes and material resources necessary to craft this new work
- to produce concert experiences that expand my artistic language

Funding Agency

The Arts Council of Ireland

Date From

01/05/20

Date To

01/12/21
Title

New Work for Feedback Trio

Summary

New work for Feedback Trio, Spain.

Funding Agency

Ernst von Siemens Foundation

Date From

01/06/2024

Date To

01/01/2025
Title

Mission Commission Podcast

Summary

A podcast demystifying the process of how classical music gets made. Follow the creative journey of three composers as they create vibrant new works of classical music. Brought to you by Miller Theatre at Columbia University, New York

Funding Agency

Miller Theatre

Date From

01/01/2023

Date To

01/07/2023
Title

New work for Line upon Line

Summary

New work for Line upon Line Percussion Trio, based in Texas.

Funding Agency

Ernst von Siemens Foundation

Date From

01/06/2024

Date To

01/06/2025
Title

TERRARIUM: a site-responsive body of work with 3 interconnected presentations

Summary

A site-responsive body of work with 3 interconnected presentations:
. the creation of earth-inspired artworks on a significant Mesolithic site at Lough
Boora Discovery Park, Co. Offaly, thought to be one of Ireland's earliest-known
human settlements
. the production of a dynamic interdisciplinary live event of responsive work from
Boora, weaving sound, sculpture, film and movement into a vivid geology-inspired
experience
. the development of Extended Reality apps, allowing the public to explore and
contribute to the geological significance of this importance place and work

Earth Observers is a vibrant and galvanising body of work seeking to collectively explore and
better understand the ground beneath our feet, how we shape it and it shapes us. By
imaginatively weaving various artforms into an expressive tool for cultural exploration, this
project will literally allow the public to see more deeply into the world around them,
encouraging an awareness of our place in deep time and our responsibility to the epochs
and beings that will follow us.
In its many forms of fixed, live, and mobile presentations, this ambitious project, led by
Crash Ensemble and artist Ann Cleare, will artistically transport the public from the specific yet universal touch stones of the Irish Boglands through deep-time geology to a vanished
Mesolithic lake in county Offaly, which, dated to between 6800 and 6500 BC, is thought to
be one of Ireland's earliest human settlements. Like many post-industrial landscapes in the
world today, the geology of the Midlands is vital to the material structures of our
contemporary existence, as well as to collective ideas of memory and myth. This earth has
nourished its people for centuries, and with resources now depleted or deemed harmful to
the climate, the region, like many places across the world, is faced with hard questions of
how it meets the future in equitable and sustainable ways.

As an artist-led, highly collaborative project, Earth Observers will fuse the practices of music,
land art, film, and extended realities into an invigorating form of artistic expression that
brings its audiences with it, compelling all involved to think forward, as the landscapes we
are making now will also sink into the earth. What future fossils will we leave behind?

Funding Agency

Crash Ensemble/Arts Council of Ireland

Date From

01/03/20

Date To

01/01/25
Title

One Here Now: A Sonic Theatre

Summary

A Sirius Arts Centre Commission, created in collaboration with Tonnta Music. Premiered at Sirius Arts Centre, Ireland

Funding Agency

Sirius Arts Centre

Date From

01/10/17

Date To

25/04/18

Electrical engineering, Performing arts,

Recognition

Received the title of College Scholar from University College Cork for achievement and excellence in academic studies 2006
International Society for Contemporary Music - work selected from International Call for New Zealand Festival 2020 April 2020
Named one of NPR's top composers under 40, WQXR, New York 2012
Fellowship at Civitella Ranieri, Italy Summer 2023
Solo Portrait Concert at Miller Theatre, Columbia University with The International Contemporary Ensemble March 2018
Fellowship at MacDowell, New Hampshire, USA Summer 2023
Fellowship at Villa Concordia, Internationalen Künstlerhaus from the Bavarian Ministry of Culture and Science, Germany Summer 2024
Shortlisted for the Gaudeamus Prize, Holland 2010
Solo Portrait Concert performed by Riot Ensemble, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, UK. Broadcast on BBC Radio 3 November 2019
Solo Portrait Concert at the Berlin Philharmonic, Musikfest, Berlin 5/09/21
Honorary Doctorate from the National University of Ireland for Contribution to Music October 2019
Staubach Honorarium recipient from IMD (Darmstadt Music Courses), Germany June 2013
Solo Portrait Concert performed by Musikfabrik, Cologne October 2019
Recipient of MATA Commission for 2015 Festival, one of three composers chosen from over 950 applications April 2015
Derek C. Bok Excellence in Teaching Award, Harvard University 2012
Ernst von Siemens Composer Prize February 2019

Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland Present
Irish Music Rights Organisation (IMRO)
Association of Irish Composers
Irish Sound, Science, and Technology Association Present
Young Academy of Ireland, member Present

Examination of Ph.D. Confirmations, Music Department, Trinity College Dublin May
Examining of Masters Thesis at Music Department, Trinity College Dublin September
External Examiner for Ph.D., Leeds University November 2021
Examining Master Thesis at Sydney Conservatorium of Music March 2020