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
Dr Lara Weaver is a scholar and composer from England, presently working with the London Symphony Orchestra as a Helen Hamlyn Panufnik Composer (2026-2027), supported by Lady Hamlyn and The Helen Hamlyn Trust.
Lara holds a PhD from SARC, Queen’s University Belfast, supervised by Professor Pedro Rebelo and as the recipient of a Northern Bridge Doctoral Training Partnership (AHRC). Her doctoral research blends music, field recording, philosophy, and environmental science to explore novel interactions of sound and environment, attending to the unusual earthy sounds of peatland bogs and 'singing' sand dunes. Lara graduated with a First from St John’s College, Cambridge, with a BA (Hons) in Music, after which she continued to an MPhil in Musicology and Composition, which was awarded with Distinction.
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.”
