by Pedro Rebelo
Commissioned by Hard Rain Soloist Ensemble for the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, 2024

Instrumentation

Flute, Bb Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Piano, Electronics

Crana is a sonic exploration of the River Crana in Donegal, Ireland. Through its short 12-mile path, the river has an impressive variety of soundscapes, reflecting various environments and water flows. The work uses immersive field recordings as the base for deriving instrumental materials which invite active listening and interaction between the performers through a score that negotiates relationships between fixed and fluid musical ideas.

Premiere:
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Town Hall, 19th November 2024
Produced by hcmf// as part of The Current Climate; supported by Culture Ireland, Hinrichsen Foundation and Vaughan Williams Foundation Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble is Ensemble in Residence at Queen’s University Belfast – SARC: Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Sound and Music Principal Funders: Arts Council of Northern Ireland and PRS Foundation Talent Development Network supported by PPL HRSE would also like to acknowledge generous support received from Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland, Culture Ireland, British Council and Belfast City Council

Other performances:
New Music Dublin, 3rd April 2025

Warsaw Autumn, International Festival of Contemporary Music , 25th September 2025

Belfast International Arts Festival, 19th October 2025