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Oscailt is a multimedia production by Jennifer Walshe
IMAGINE a place where a phone tower is planted next to a holy well and where Facebook employees at the Clonee data centre tend beehives in a nod to medieval monks.
Well, no need to imagine it, we are living it.
Through her new commission, Oscailt, Jennifer Walshe invites you to open your mind.
Presented by Music Network, Oscailt will make its world premiere in Limerick city, at the Belltable this September.
Oscailt is performed by Jennifer Walshe (vocalist), Elizabeth Hilliar (soprano), Nick Roth (saxophones) and Panos Ghikas (multi-instrumentalist and electronics).
Developed by Jennifer Walshe and her ensemble with the help of secondary school students from across the country, this new performance will draw on their experience of growing up in a world mediated by technology.
Together, they will explore and create sounds using instrumental, vocal and computer improvisation techniques which will be incorporated into the performance.
The students will join Walshe and her ensemble on stage to perform some of their co-created material.
They will take us on a musical journey that reflects on our technological past while inspiring us to dream of the futures they would like to construct.
Through this musical journey, they will invite the public to open their mind and see the world through the eyes of digital natives.
Oscailt is an extraordinary multimedia composition for sound and video by the amazing force of nature that is vocalist, improviser and composer Jennifer Walshe.
As well as the nod to medieval monks, the performance will also touch on where the hexagonal shapes of the basalt columns at the Giant’s Causeway are echoed in the solar cells of the James Webb Telescope peering into deepest space as the Leviathan once did.
The world premiere of Oscailt will take place on Thursday, September 21 at 8pm in the Belltable.
Standard tickets are priced at €21,00 and are available on limetreetheatre.ie/events/oscailt
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