Grant: RTF44
Detail: With the support of the Irish Arts Council, RTF has commissioned Robert Curgenven to create the third in the series of New Organ Works to accompany the commissions by Kali Malone and by Claire M Singer. The compositions will be created over the course of 2021-22.
Robert Curgenven is an Ireland-based, Australian-born artist producing albums, performances and installations. His work emphasizes physicality, our embodied response to sound and its correspondence to location, air, weather and architecture. His recorded output includes Tailte Cré-Umha (Bronze Lands) and SIRÈNE, pipe organ works, for his Recorded Fields Editions; Oltre and Built Through for LINE imprint; and Climata, recorded in 15 of James Turrell’s Skyspaces across 9 countries.