Theatre, stage, opera
Wired [2022]
Dance-theatre
Kinetic Light, New York
Break Down De Doom [2017]
25 mins. Mezzo & string quartet
Text by Mac Wellman
I Used to Feel… [2016]
30 mins. Clarinet & deaf signing performer
Site-specific: hotel room
Text by A Ní Ríain
Sawn-off Opera [2006/2009]
55 mins. Sop, Mezzo, Ten, Bar
Five chamber operas set in hotel rooms
Text by David Gaffney
Treasured [2012]
90 mins. Tpt, brass quintet, fixed audio, six actors, projection
Text & music by A Ní Ríain
Brief-Blue-Electric-Bloom [2010]
60 mins. Two deaf signing performers
Two guitars [electric or acoustic]
Video & fixed audio
Text by A Ní Ríain
The Falling [2005]
60 mins. Harp, fixed media,fxed media including spoken text
Text by A Ní Ríain
Orchestral
The Land Grows Weary of its Own [2023]
19 mins. Symphony Orchestra.
Calling mutely through lipless mouth [2022]
15 mins. Orchestra
Flower Scar Road [2021]
14 mins. Orchestra
Vocal
Refuse to be Wrecked [2023]
10 mins. Soprano & fixed audio media
Text by Howard Barker
From the Diary of an Exile [2022]
15 mins. SATB Choir.
Text by Mac Amhlaigh/Iremonger
Watershed [2021]
25 mins. Low treble voice & piano
Text by Jessica Brown
A Crow’s Wisp/Sop Préacháin [2019]
12 mins. Soprano and piano
Text by Aifric Mac Aodha
Cimmerian [2015]
5 mins. Voice
Text by A Ní Ríain
Eyeless (2012)
14 mins. Folk singer and choir
Text by A Ní Ríain (in Irish & English)
In Sleep… (2010)
15 mins. Ms, fl, clar, bsn, tpt, trb, pf, perc
Text by A Ní Ríain
End with Words of Hope (2010)
9 mins. Soprano, clarinet
Text by Sappho & Ní Ríain
Stones (2008)
5 mins. Male voice choir
Spurious Balancing (2003)
5 mins. Counter-tenor, tenor, baritone
Text by A Ní Ríain
Attrition (2001)
14 mins. Soprano & piano
Text by Kenneth Clarke
A Song for My Body (1998)
12 mins. Sop, fl, tpt, vc, f, perc
Text by Christy Brown
Two Songs (1995/6)
5 mins. Any solo voice
Text by Eavan Boland
Solos
Doomed. Damned. Done For. And Still… [2023]
7 mins. Cello & fixed audio
Mascaron [2022]
6 mins. Double-bass & fixed audio
Hiding Out ‘Neath the Everything [2021]
6 mins. Violin and fixed audio
Tick (2020)
70 secs. Organ
Our First Lesson in Forgetting (2019)
7 mins. Classical guitar
Anomaly (2019)
1 min. Toy piano
The Height of Me (2018)
5 mins. Piano
Soberado (2017)
4 mins. Toy piano
Sklonište (2015/16)
60 mins. Accordion [& video]
Not About Heroes (2014)
20 mins. Cello
[originally written for theatre production]
When I die, you can do what you want (2014)
12 mins. Violin with video
Treasured (2012)
10 mins. Trumpet
[originally written for theatre production]
Beautiful Cracked Eyes (2008)
11 mins. Piano
Surrealist Pilgrims (2007)
12 mins. Cello & fixed audio
Into the Sea of Waking Dreams… (2007)
10 mins. Piano with optional texts
2 Steep 4 Sheep (some hills are) (2006)
6 mins. Harpsichord and fixed audio
The Falling (2005)
8 mins. Harp
[originally written for theatre production]
Rude Boy (2002)
3 mins. Piano
Flat-Footed-Former-Flyer (2002)
12 mins. Trombone
Dogs in Waiting (1999)
8 mins. Double-bass
Duos
Sour Morning Crimson [2020]
7 mins. Organ & electronics
Parambassis [2019]
10 mins. Bass-clarinet & recorders
Highfalutin [2017]
2 mins. Two flutes
Consent #7 [2017]
7 mins. Bass-flute and Bass-clarinet
The Consequences of Falling [2013]
12 mins. Double-bass & trumpet
Chainstitchembroidered [2012]
14 mins. Fl, pf
Quantitas Speaks [2012]
12 mins. Piano duo & fixed audio
10,000 Deviants [2007]
5 mins. Flute, piano (& optional speaker)
FIRST ABSOLUTE EXECUTION [2004]
11 mins. Bass-clarinet & accordion
DON’T! [2000]
4 mins. Bass-clarinet & cello
The Man Made of Rain [1999]
10 mins. Clarinet/speaker & piano
Trios/Quartets
Soundless [2016]
5 mins. Violin, oboe, tenor recorder
Reinventions [2010]
18 mins. Clarinet, viola, piano (optional texts/speaker)
UPTHEWALLS [2007]
5 mins. Trumpet, drumkit, double-bass
The Last Time I Died… [2002]
6 mins. Violin, piano, percussion
Under the Rose… [2000]
10 mins. Flute, violin, piano
Wait [2020]
23 mins. String quartet
Dubinina’s Tongue [2015]
10 mins. Percussion Quartet & optional video
Quintets/Sextets
Revelling/Reckoning [2021]
14 mins. Wind quintet & percussion
Orizzontale [1997]
9 mins. Violin, clarinet, cello, piano
Installation
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