@misc{3e91660d40824a99b0924823bffca622,
title = "All Earth Once Drowned",
abstract = "{\textquoteleft}All Earth Once Drowned{\textquoteright} is a music and spoken word work based on the texts of Irish poet Cherry Smyth. The text and music addresses our relationship to the changing environment and particularly our relationship to the sea. Cherry performs with the ensemble and her texts are interweaved throughout this 70 minute work. The composition is in six parts and is performed by nine wonderful musicians all chosen for their unique abilities and energy. {\textquoteleft}All Earth Once Drowned{\textquoteright} was commissioned by Moving On Music with support from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Royal College of Music and the tour is supported by a PRSF Beyond Borders award. The work is novel in it's incorporation of spoken word and the inclusion of improvising musicians alongside more conventionally scored music to create an unstable friction in the structure and texture.",
author = "Edmond Bennett",
note = "Irish composer Ed Bennett{\textquoteright}s music is performed and broadcast in over 30 countries in venues including New York{\textquoteright}s Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, London{\textquoteright}s Barbican and South Bank Centres and the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels. Over the last 25 years he has created a substantial body of work for a variety of contexts including those for the concert hall, opera, dance, installation and film. Recent highlights include “Psychedelia” for the RT{\'E} NSO and Thomas Ad{\`e}s, “Ausland” for the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Reinbert de Leeuw, “Song of the Books” for the Crash Ensemble and five critically-acclaimed portrait discs of his work. He directs his 10-piece ensemble Decibel, described in The Quietus as “blending the coiled concentration of the best post-minimalism with the ferocity and dynamic range of thrash metal.” His recent portrait CD “Psychedelia” (2020) was described in the Sunday Times as “ebullient, deeply compelling music” and featured in the New York Times as one of their recommended releases of 2020, whilst the Guardian described his work as “unclassifiable, raw-nerve music of huge energy and imagination.” In 2019 Ed Bennett was awarded the Arts Council of Northern Ireland{\textquoteright}s Major Individual Artist Award, the highest honour awarded to an artist from the region. For his body of creative work he received the prestigious Leverhulme Prize for Performing Arts and his music has been twice shortlisted for the Ivor Novello awards. In 2024 he was elected to Aosd{\'a}na, the affiliation of creative artists in Ireland honouring artists whose work has made an outstanding contribution to the creative arts in Ireland. He is currently a fellow at the K{\"u}nstlerhaus Villa Concordia in Bamberg, Bavaria for the 2024/25 season and is Professor of Composition at the Royal College of Music in London. Future projects include new work for New York{\textquoteright}s Bang On a Can Allstars and an evening length work for singer Michelle O{\textquoteright}Rourke. ",
year = "2025",
month = jun,
day = "6",
language = "English",
}