Connemara Landscape is a new sound work by Christopher Steenson created for Sonorities 2022. Taking the work of Belfast-born Irish painter Paul Henry as a departure point, Steenson’s sonic landscape will explore contemporary environment and traditions of Connemara within the context of a changing climate. The work will result from Steenson’s stay with Interface in March 2022 – a residency complex for collaboration between the arts and science, which is situated in Connemara’s Inagh Valley. Christopher Steenson is an artist from Northern Ireland, currently based in Inch, Co. Kerry. His work forges ways of ‘listening to the future’, through site-specific soundbased public interventions and installations, which use field recording, photography and writing as their materials. He is primarily concerned with the shifing elements of our environment, such as declining wildlife populations and the climate crisis, and the entangled role of human activity within these changes.