Artist & composer Laura Hyland returns to the Irish National Heritage Park this June for the third chapter of her Sounding Seams series, this time exploring the theme of chaos and order through sound. She'll be accompanied by her inimitable quartet, Clang Sayne, featuring Carolyn Goodwin (woodwinds), Caimin Gilmore (double bass) & Matthew Jacobson (percussion). Visitors to the park are invited to sit in on public rehearsals from Monday 6th to Friday 10th as they develop four of Laura's new compositions for chimes, voices & instruments. They wrap up on Saturday 11th June with a series of workshops and a live performance of their new material.

Sounding Seams began in 2018 when Wexford Arts Department and The Irish National Heritage Park commissioned Laura to respond to the ancient craft of metal forgery through sound. Taking a Greek myth which roots the origins of the Western musical scale in metal forgery, she made a series of tuned copper & steel chimes, and retold this myth through sound and story in her 'Sounding Seams I' performance. Developing the project in 2019, she created a permanent chime sculpture for the park, and incorporated it into her Sounding Seams II performance, exploring the music of found objects.

Laura Hyland is an artist & composer from Wexford. Her work spans composition, performance, sound sculpture & poetry. Her latest commission – for Ireland's foremost contemporary classical 10tet, Crash Ensemble – was recently premiered in the National Concert Hall in April at New Music Dublin festival. She is the founder & artistic director of experimental choir, Wildsong Ensemble, and has released two critically acclaimed albums with her avant-folk quartet, Clang Sayne. Her music has been described as “exhilarating in its refusal to conform” (Wire Magazine).