West Clare project is Gaining Ground
Clare County Council Arts Office says work has commenced on a project exploring the complex legacy of immigration and assimilation in the West Clare area.
The ‘Gangani Legacy’ – Gaining Ground’s new sound and music research project with composer Ian Wilson - will examine influences on local people, both from indigenous and outsider perspectives, and how these might be found in communities, for example in place names, aspects of language or dialect, customs and idioms, heritage and culture, employment, sport and local attitudes.
The project includes the creation of 40-minute sound work that will include contributions (spoken and musical) from people of all backgrounds and walks of life from West Clare. There will be two main elements to the project; a soundtrack containing fragments of recorded conversations between Ian and local participants, and a score for two musicians: Dublin based Japanese pianist Izumi Kimura and the renowned, Joe O’Callaghan, a Clare-born guitarist. The musical score will combine influences, which are both indigenous and foreign. The outcome of the project will be two performances in West Clare and the availability of a high quality CD recording of the work.
The arts project is a collaborative process and features engagement with individuals and community groups.
If you or your organisation would like to speak to Ian about possible European/American (or further afield) influences on the place you live or the arts/creative/ sporting activity you are involved in, please contact Ian through Sally O’Leary, Asprey Arts at aspreyarts@gmail.com.
More information on the project will follow in the coming weeks.
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