S1 E7 - Linda Buckley (2015)

The Family of THINGS with Helen Shaw

Helen Shaw’s guest this episode is Cork born composer Linda Buckley who writes contemporary music drawing inspiration from the world around her, from the soundscape of her childhood growing up on a diary farm overlooking the Old Head of Kinsale to other places close to her heart including Iceland. Buckley’s work has been performed by Crash Ensemble, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the University of York Javanese Gamelan to name a few, and its mix of vocal, acoustic and electronic sounds is sometimes termed spacial music. Buckley draws references from medieval music and sees her works, not just as compositions but as live engagements defined by space and audiences. The podcast draws on Buckley’s work including Torann, Eriu, Chiyo, Telephones and Gongs, Revelavit, Numarimur, Do you remember the planets?, Fall Approaches, Jump and Ó Íochtar Mara. You can find out more on her website www.lindabuckley.org.

Helen Shaw and Linda Buckley later went on to collaborate and work together on an ambitious radio and podcast storytelling project around the weave of stories, history, myth and music connecting Ireland and Iceland called Mother's Blood, Sister Songs www.mothersbloodsistersongs.com or 'how the genetics of Iceland reveals its Irish motherhood in story and song'.