is a unique Irish improvising duo formed in 2011 and comprising Cathal Roche (www.cathalroche.com), saxophones and Ian Wilson, live electronics and sound objects. The duo draws upon a broad range of influences and sound sources to create a distinct improvisational voice which incorporates both music and noise/sound and which references variously jazz, world music, drone and death metal, ambient and techno, medieval, renaissance and contemporary classical music.

crOw also seeks to respond to its performative environment by adjusting its sound parameters in real time in order to engage the acoustic and architectural properties of the auditorium itself in performance. The duo’s highly successful “Sounding the City” project for the 2015 Cork Midsummer Festival was centred on this idea and saw them perform in spaces as different as the National Sculpture Factory, the massive City Hall Atrium, the Sky Garden in Fitzgerald Park and the bijou GULPD café.

crOw’s music crosses borders and boundaries but is at its heart expressive, colourful and textural. Like the eponymous bird’s cousin the magpie, crOw will, frankly, borrow anything it takes a fancy to but the results are, ultimately, inimitable.

Email: crOw@ianwilson.ie