Lara Gallagher

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Lara Gallagher is an Irish composer and sound artist with a broad set of interests including algorithmic composition, interactive multimedia installation art and performance art.

Her main style of work centres around free improvisation. In her use of improvisation, she attempts to use her auditory and visual processing systems to interpret and respond to her surrounding environments. The journey of deliberate improvisation is something she tries, to access what may be beyond her conscious awareness or control. As a theatre graduate she also employs techniques used in theatre such as semiotics, psychoacoustics and bodily awareness in her performance and compositional work through the use of signifiers and exploring the relationship between specific sounds and memory. Due to the dramatic influences within her education, she was engulfed by the practices of performance art. Lara strives to create work that opens a kind of communication and interaction between performing and listening bodies so that human connections and reactions can be explored.

Lara has performed and shared her work in various venues and locations across London, Dublin and Berlin. Having graduated from Music and Drama Studies at Trinity College Dublin in April 2019 she was awarded the emerging musician in residence award by Music Network and DLRCOCO. Since, she has undertaken a masters in Sound Studies and Sonic Arts at the University of the Arts in Berlin where she studies under Wolfgang Spahn and Hans Peter Kuhn.

Her latest artistic venture has seen the creation of the Islo Collective, a multi medium art collective with roots in Dublin. Islo seeks to advocate for emerging artists in order to establish its position at the forefront of innovative multimedia technologies and artistic production.

Relevant links:

https://www.laragallagher.art/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqUmK2DXFU6bhZqYIwPdylQ?view_as=subscriber