Jennifer Walshe & Bent Frequency

Jennifer Walshe & Bent Frequency

Bent Frequency is a performance ensemble possessing a vision to redefine the traditional music experience - ushering it from the strict formality of the concert hall into the fresh air of contemporary artistic expression and experimentation. 

Composer Jennifer Walshe’s work has been performed and broadcast all over the world. “Without a doubt, hers is the most original compositional voice to emerge in Ireland in the last 20 years.”

—Michael Dervan, The Irish Times

The music of what happens?

“The music of what happens?” is a music theatre piece in the marionette opera tradition. In this case, the marionettes are fashion dolls of the Barbie or Sindy type and their “Theatre” is a large doll house. The libretto of “The music of what happens?” takes the thesis of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata as a jumping-off point, following three women and their boyfriends through a tragic narrative. The music co-exists with the flow of the libretto and actions of the dolls, whether by making concrete contact with the words of the text, or providing extra-textual layers of meaning.

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