…we return to ground… released on Other Minds 12 July

Quiet Music Ensemble is delighted to announce the release of ‘...we return to ground’, a double album of works composed especially for the ensemble by Irish composer Karen Power. The double album is available from San Francisco-based label Other Minds as a CD or download.

The three works of the album - Instruments of Ice, Sonic Pollinators, and we return to ground -  pairing natural sounds with musical instruments, were written for Quiet Music Ensemble over a period of 8 years, creating an ongoing sonic dialogue between the ensemble and the natural world. Power describes these works as “uniquely shaped by QME and written knowing and trusting their ears and interpretative skills.” Through this collaboration with Quiet Music Ensemble, Power invites listeners to immerse themselves in unique sonic ecosystems, offering time and space for individual interpretation and exploration.

“What we are hearing is not reducible to 'music' and 'nature'; there is an acknowledgement that the senses are not separate. They are fluid, sometimes interchangeable in their perception of worlds, and those worlds overlap, become each other.”

- David Toop, album liner notes

…we return to ground… will be launched at a special event as part of QME’s appearance at the Heroines of Sound festival on 12 July at Radialsystem. Supported by DAAD and the Irish Embassy in Berlin.

Tracklist:

1 …we return to ground… [30.03]
2 Sonic Pollinators  [39.19]
3 Instruments of Ice  [40.13]