Passage of Sound.

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‘Passage of Sound’ is a 22-minute audio video film that was created as a site specific projection installation project in 2017 for Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann, Ireland's foremost traditional music festival.
The film draws its inspiration from the origins of the Irish slow air, ‘Port na bPucaí’ from the Blasket Islands in Co Kerry (the most westerly points in Europe) and Seamus Heaney’s poem ‘The Given Note’. The poem describes the experience of fiddler from 'Port na bPucaí', who goes alone to the most westerly Blasket Island and hears music in the wind and brings it back to society with:
‘So whether he calls it spirit music
Or not I don’t care. He took it
Out of wind off mid-Atlantic.
Still he maintains, from nowhere.
It comes off the bow gravely,
Rephrases itself into the air.’
The ‘Passage of Sound’ installation is designed as a slow, poetic work that represents a metaphorical journey, which follows the artist going to the extreme for his craft.
The film was shot in eight different locations and the changing landscape is used amplify and heighten the emotion as the lone figure crosses over ancient woods and the karst lunar landscape know as The Burren before emerging over the peaks of Mount Brandon and down to the shores of the Wild Atlantic Way.
Like a dream or a foreign place, the environment is immersive, yet difficult to fully recall or describe. What remains with you is an impression, an image that dwells in your mind.