We paid a visit to the Kinsale-born composer Linda Buckley in her Dublin home ahead of the premiere of a new work for the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra. The piece – 'chiyo' – was inspired by three haikus by the eighteenth-century Japanese poet Chiyo-ni. In this video, Buckley talks about how writing for orchestra is like building a city, the closeness of orchestral and electronic music, the search for an ecstatic experience and why beauty should never be a dirty word.

For more on Linda Buckley see here: journalofmusic.com/article/833
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