Ann Cleare

She later created a version of the piece for two violins and loudspeaker which was premiered by the Riot Ensemble in London on May 14, 2018. In an interview with Tim Rutherford-Johnson, Cleare described the work:

At the centre of two of the spatially divided chamber groups lies a solo violin. I think of both solo violins as ‘electric currents’, wiry voices that magnetically charge the electricity of the ensemble that surrounds them, wrapping layers of various sonic materials around the violins, providing what I think of as an electric cloud for the evolving violin electricities to speak from.

On March 1, 2018, the International Contemporary Ensemble presented a portrait concert of Cleare's work at Miller Theater, including her works teeth of light, tongue of waves (a world premiere and a co-commission by the ensemble and the theater), to another of that other, the square of yellow light that is your window and Dorchadas.

In 2015, MATA Festival commissioned Cleare to write a piece for the Talea Ensemble, and she wrote Eöl for a collection of small percussion instruments surrounded by a small ensemble. The percussion instruments are all made with different metals in order to make use of their varied timbral characteristics. In an interview, Cleare says,

Her 2011–2012 work, on magnetic fields, was commissioned by the Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik and premiered by the Collegium Novum Zürich. This work, which separates the group into three chamber ensembles, uses two violin soloists as a kind of sculpted 'electric current' to propel the interaction between the musicians.

Ann Cleare (born 1983 in County Offaly) is an Irish composer. She currently teaches at Trinity College Dublin. In 2019 she won the prestigious Ernst von Siemens Composers' Prize, sharing it with Annesley Black and Mithatcan Öcal.