Crash Ensemble

12 Henrietta Street, Dublin Tonight 8pm €22

Crash Ensemble are well- known for the amplification they use at gigs, even in pieces where amplification would have been the last thing on the composers’ minds. Their next performance takes a different approach to keeping the sound levels up for listeners: a concert in the Georgian domestic environment of 12 Henrietta Street. Such domestic settings are not of course, entirely novel. Jane O’Leary’s Concorde Ensemble has run many a concert in the confines of the Galway Arts Centre, and the Music in Great Irish Houses Festival has run concerts in room halls and lobbies.

Crash are using their new venue to focus on the work of Italian composer Salvatore Sciarrino (featured composer of the 2003 Sligo New Music Festival), some of whose work can sound like an exploration of the sound of blowing air.

Crash will play his Codex purpureus, Lo spazio inverso and Le voci sotovetro, in a programme that also offers a specially commissioned work from English composer Christopher Fox ( Extended Play) as well as works by Australian Michael Smetanin ( Shatter) and Ireland's Gerald Barry (First Sorrow).