UK premiere of new opera, ‘TIME TIME TIME’, by Jennifer Walshe: The Open Fund for Organisations
‘TIME TIME TIME’ is an experimental new opera about the past 4.5 billion years. Swimming around in deep ecological time, time expansion and contraction, polyphasic sleep, anti-ageing creams, fertility clocks, alternative timelines and parallel universes, the work sees one of the most original composers working in Britain today, Jennifer Walshe, join forces with one of the world’s most influential environmental philosophers, Timothy Morton.
Exploring the multiplicity of temporalities at the heart of being human, the opera engages the fast-paced digital time of electronic producer M.C. Schmidt and Walshe, the deep geological rhythms of improviser Lee Patterson, the liminal eternal drones of harpist Aine O’Dwyer, and the shifting tectonic plates of electronics duo Streifenjunko and string duo Vilde&Inga. The length of the work will be dependent on the level of entropy present in the room, with the audience monitored by heat-sensitive cameras throughout the show. London Contemporary Music Festival and the Serpentine Galleries have come together to present the UK premiere of this exciting European co-production.
“The most original compositional voice to emerge from Ireland in the past 20 years” (The Irish Times), composer/performer Jennifer Walshe has been commissioned, broadcast and performed all over the world. She has been the recipient of fellowships and prizes from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (NY), DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm and Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt among others. Recent projects include Aisteach, a fictional history of avant-garde music in Ireland, and EVERYTHING IS IMPORTANT, commissioned by the Arditti Quartet, which has been touring to critical acclaim.