Seán Clancy
Seán Clancy is an experimental composer & performer from Ireland. He writes music for acoustic instruments, electronic instruments, environmental sounds, and people doing things in performance not involving any instruments at all. For the most part, his practice is involved with the act of translating non-musical things into music and making text projections. Over the years, he has become particularly interested in collaborations, and music as a devised process. His music is often long, repetitive, and contains sustained tones, but it can also be short and fragmented.
His work has been performed by lots of nice people as far west as Albuquerque, New Mexico, and as far east as Beijing, China. Career highlights include writing for, and performing with basketball players & other musicians at the Commonwealth Games in 2022; performing a piece about life and the Irish sport of hurling, on a deserted beach during COVID-19 lockdown; writing several pieces for close collaborators National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, Crash Ensemble, Bozzini Quartet, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, and Ensemble Krock; and releasing several albums dealing with his lived experience utilising location recordings and electronics.
Seán also has a performance duo with Andy Ingamells that explores the collaborative process through a kind of visual musique concrète arising from the images of performance situations. He is a senior lecturer in music, and BMus composition coordinator at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire in the UK.
