Still life in green and red, string quartet #13

My Mayo County Council-funded Landmark residency took me all over Mayo, Ireland, in 2011, working with schools in Balla, Claremorris and Loughanemon and interviewing people from a wide area including Ballintubber and Partry, Castlebar, Knock and Straide including artists, churchmen, doctors, parade organisers and union representatives. The purpose of the residency was to document how various communities in Mayo had been dealing with the then-current economic climate – looking particularly at how people were being positive and pro-active in the teeth of a recession – and to create a large-scale work of music which clearly reflected this notion.