INK
Live Electronics + Painting
About
INK is the new performance project by Anna MurrayINK paints sound with movement, improvising with lines, gestures and textures in both the sonic and visual realm.
instruments of improvisation - gesture - traces - lines - jo-ha-kyu - ritual - motionmovement as lines we trace in space
INK combines improvised electronics and live painting - using a combination of sensors and conductive ink, Murray controls a rich and evolving soundworld through gestures and movement, especially the gestures of painting. INK paints sound with movement, improvising with lines, gestures and textures, fully live and improvised.Sonically, Murray plays with the sound of the brush and the paper, layered with synth and recordings of machinery, natural sounds, cityscapes and more made in locations across the world, from mountain streams in the Pyrenees, to the machinery in an observatory in Chicago, to the sonic texture of Tokyo itself. INK explores our interactions with and movement through the world around us by constructing unreal soundscapes and makes visible the traces of our movement through the environment.In INK, Murray brings together a wide array of influences on her composition work, from improvised ambient music, gesture-focussed composition, and her experience studying Noh in Tokyo.
Latest News
KONTAKT: INK
The Kontakt concert series returns - a space for improvised, electronic and experimental music. With Sebastian Adams, Joanna Mattrey, and Laura Hyland.7pm, 30 November, 1 Little Green St, Dublin
Sonic Arts Forum, Swansea
Anna Murray will give a presentation on Noh theatre, gesture and INK as part of the Sonic Arts Forum in Swansea (15 November 2025)
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INK masks
Inkbooks
Specially-created folding book with abstract black ink score/painting, created on accordion notebooks picked up in different places across the world. Each one unique and created to order.
