A seated listening concert for a programmed audience, played live and shaped to your room.
What it is
Thunderclap Murphy plays a live ambient soundtrack in the lineage of Brian Eno and Hiroshi Yoshimura. It’s built in the room, slow and spacious, and develops as it goes rather than repeating. This is not background music. It is a live, intentional performance.
How it works
Each piece begins with a single instrument, looping and sparse. More instruments join as it plays, each looping at its own length so they drift in and out of step. It builds into something dense and warm, then thins back to silence. One piece runs about half an hour, and each resolves into silence before the next begins, so there are natural pauses to move or step out.
It’s all played and recorded live in the room. There’s something to watch being made, if you want to. It’s a real performance captured as it happens, not a playlist.
It needs a room that can be quiet. That’s why it suits galleries, libraries and listening events rather than busy receptions or dining rooms.
Typical placements
Evening listening concerts, festival strands and late programmes.
The Listening Room
A seated, ticketed concert built for close listening. Each piece grows and recedes over half an hour or more, with the sound moving through the room around you. It belongs indoors, in a room with a low noise floor and a listening audience, away from bar noise and foot traffic. It’s the format most venues start with.
Why it suits arts centres and festivals
It gives a programme a calm, contemporary listening event for audiences who want depth rather than volume, from a considered artist with a clear lineage your audiences will recognise.
Hear a full set
For a longer listen, here is a full set of about twenty minutes, recorded live.