LARA WEAVER
COMPOSER | RESEARCHER
ALBUM RELEASE
Lara Weaver's composition 'Singing Sands' features on Crash Works II: a collaboration between the Crash Ensemble and five composers Aoife King, Tim Doyle, Aleksandr Nisse, Cathal O'Riordan and Lara Weaver.
'Singing Sands' is inspired by Lara's field recordings of the singing sand dunes in the Rub' al-Khali (Empty Quarter) desert in the Arabian Peninsula, which formed part of her PhD research.
The album is available in both CD and digital formats via Crash Records, Bandcamp, Tidal and all streaming sites.
ABOUT
Lara Weaver is a composer, researcher, and performer from England.
Lara is currently undertaking a PhD at the Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC) at Queen’s University Belfast, under the supervision of Professor Pedro Rebelo. Previously, she was at St John’s College, Cambridge, where she read for her undergraduate degree, achieving a First, and MPhil, which was awarded with Distinction. Her current research investigates the capacity of sound to observe and give voice to changing ecosystems, interrogating the need for a ‘sound studies in/of the Anthropocene’.
Lara is the recipient of a Northern Bridge Doctoral Training Partnership, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
SOUNDS OF THE BOG AND THE APOCALYPSE
Article published in thesonification.org
“Sound is one way we can meet this scalability crisis, bringing the incomprehensible down ... to the swampy, squishy, squelchy stuff of human experience. A little bit ordinary, a little bit disgusting, a little bit beautiful.”
