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Live ambient music for arts centres

Thunderclap Murphy plays live ambient music on flute, glockenspiel, guitar and synth, looped into a ninety-minute seated concert. The tradition is Brian Eno and Hiroshi Yoshimura.

Four speakers stand at the corners of the house, so the audience sits inside the sound rather than in front of it. He loops each line under the last until the whole piece is running, then takes it apart again.

He comes back within the week. No obligation.

An evening that arrives finished

He brings the sound system, the instruments, the lighting and the crew, so nothing has to be hired in.

Wexford Arts Centre, twice in 2026

Wexford Arts Centre programmed him on 30 July and again on 28 August 2026, both inside So Say So, the curated night it runs.

Thunderclap Murphy in a linen jacket leaning over the instrument table in the Community Garden at Wexford Arts Centre, guitar and saxophone on stands against the stone wall, audience at the edges of the frame
Wexford Arts Centre, 30 July 2026. Photo by Niamh Ní Fhoghlú.

How the set is built

Three pieces of about half an hour, each building from a single instrument into something full, then thinning back toward quiet. The audience is free to sit, lie down, or come and go.

A weekend that is otherwise loud gets its quiet hour.

Setting a date at your venue

Send the date and the space you have in mind and make a booking enquiry. He comes back within the week with a plan.

He comes back within the week. No obligation.