Improvised music for piano and live electronics.

Mirror Board 1&2

From upcoming album 'The moon sets and birds cry / 月は落ち、鳥が鳴いて', out 7 May on Bandcamp

‘The moon sets and birds cry / 月は落ち、鳥が鳴いて’ is an album of pieces and improvisations for piano and electronics by composer/musician Anna Murray.

Created and recorded in 2020-2021, while Murray was studying traditional Japanese Noh theatre at Tokyo University of the Arts, the tracks of the album reflect aspects of that experience, and of Noh. Recorded in a rehearsal space during the Covid-19 pandemic and fluctuating emergency restrictions, the album also conjures a sense of closeness, of interiority and reflection.

Azuma-asobi/東遊 (version 1)

A short improvisation in preparation for Konakt: Shade in Dublin on 27 February

Shade

A track created as part of the Kontakt radio show over on CAMP Radio (listen.camp). Support on Patreon to get exclusive tracks each month at patreon.com/annamurraymusic  

30/08/22 – Blood/Breath
Legacies, bodies, identities. With music from Moor Mother, Charmaine Lee, Eartheater, Holly Herndon, OLAibi, Áine O’Dwyer and Natalia Merlano Gómez.
https://www.mixcloud.com/camp_fr/kontakt-30th-august-2022/

Kontakt: Blood/Breath

Aimai (Michelle O'Rourke, voice)

Music for EMS Synthi and field recordings - developed at and for the Northern Lights Project showcase at Oscillations and Modulations Festival, September 2023. Recording of work in development while in residence.

Mother Of Water (in development)

Performed by Cue Saxophone Quartet, Feb 2015

Claustrum for Saxophone Quartet

Performed by Ian Peaston, live at Odessa Club, Feb 2015

Switches (for looping electric violin + electronics) Live

Slow ambient remix of Mogwai 'Hunted by a Freak'

Hunted by a Friction (Mogwai Hunted by a Freak remix)

Kontakt show, originally broadcast on CAMP radio, 29 July 2025.

http://listen.camp

Playing with the connective tissue between sound art, field recordings and composition with improvisations and interventions. With Anna Murray

Kontakt show - Sounds of Annaghmakerrig Lough, 29 July 2025

Both Beaming and Beckoning
live at Yerkes Observatory

Created for/with:
Anna Murray (composition/development)
Alex Koi (voice)
Michelle Hromin (clarinet)
Zachary Good (clarinet)
Andres Guerra (guitar)
Noelia Cruz (violin)
for the Eighth Blackbird Creative Lab 2023

Both Beaming and Beckoning is a phrase used by anthropologist Tim Ingold to describe the relationship between the light of stars and our eyes; when we look at the stars, we are looking at light, and it is that light that allows us to see. In Ingold’s words, ‘to witness the sun is to see by its own light’. This piece invites us to think about the paths that light takes as those objects move in space, as well as the lines and gestures we draw as we move through the atmosphere. 

Movement is lines carved in space. Stars carve curves of orbits through the empty medium of space. We carve lines of gestures through the atmosphere. Sound carves paths through a room.

The score consists of a seven-part structure and some visual starting points for improvisation, drawn from the early photographic plates of stars produced at Yerkes Observatory, and its first performance was developed in response to the spaces and imagery of that building.

With special thanks to Dr. Amanda Bauer for her time, expertise and depthless enthusiasm for exploration

Commissioned by Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting for the Blackbird Creative Lab 2023.
Audio engineer: Matthew McCabe
Documentation: Camila Guarda, Brian Ashby, Ryan Bennett

Both Beaming and Beckoning - Eighth Blackbird Creative Lab 2023

Improv Loops

Performed by Máire Carroll 2017. Commissioned by Kirkos Ensemble

At Mii Dera (live)

In March 2019, The South Tipperary Arts Centre marked International Women’s Day with the Finding a Voice concert series – a celebration of women composers. The series also marked the 200th anniversary of Clara Schumann, and featured  a series of specially commissioned works, ‘reflections’ on a theme by Schumann from the Scherzo of her Piano Trio in G Minor Op. 17.

Still Reflection focusses in on a few tiny gestures of the Clara Schumann theme, expanding and re-combining them to create a slow, open 'still life’ of the original.

https://www.annamurraymusic.com/news/2019/9/20/audio-still-reflection-on-a-theme-by-clara-schumann-mary-dullea-pno

Still Reflection on a Theme by Clara Schumann (Mary Dullea, pno)

From Rndr II

Out now on Bandcamp: https://annamurray.bandcamp.com/album/rndr-ii

restless – moon – shuddering – clouds   

Rndr II is the second album of experimental ambient electronic music by composer/musician Anna Murray.   All four tracks of Rndr II are recorded improvisations based on the random selection of samples of sounds ranging from field recordings to early gramophone recordings to instruments.   

The tracks were chosen to capture the sonic impression of life in Tokyo – the constant pull between city noise and quiet spaces, between reserve and obsession, between the preservation of old traditions and the most modern city in the world.  

All tracks written, performed and recorded by Anna Murray in Dublin and Tokyo. 

All tracks mastered by Alexis Nealon.

Rndr8 (Shuddering)

Isolation electronica made from digital synths, beats, and samples. Organic sounds of beach waves, gamelan, voices, early gramophone recordings and noh percussion build and interlock with digital synths to build a world of industrial clanking, claustrophobic drones and incessant beats. 

From electronica EP These Are The First Words I've Spoken, available on Bandcamp, Spotify, Apple Music and more.

https://www.annamurraymusic.com/news/2020/6/8/these-are-the-first-words-ive-spoken-ep

https://annamurray.bandcamp.com
https://open.spotify.com/album/15LVY0HwQ3LlT3MY4VR7a9?si=9135uftlST2ntTMg0vnZMA

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