HOME

Over six months, composer Rory Friers recorded conversations, songs and everyday moments with residents and staff at Glendun care home in Cushendun. This scrapbook of voices, memories and shared experiences is woven into an original score for string quartet, piano and guitar.

Created with filmmaker Ross McClean, the accompanying film is projection- mapped onto a suspended scale model of the care home, allowing the building to shift between physical place, remembered space and living image. Together, sound, music and film offers a question; where is home and when are we there?

Created and directed by Rory Friers

• 2026 spatial audio realisation: Rory Friers
• Model footage filmed and edited by Ross McClean
• Music composed and orchestrated by Rory Friers
• Strings performed by Arco String Quartet
• Strings recorded at Queens Parade Methodist Church by Michael Keeney
• Scale model built by Julian Friers and Jill Friers
• All songs performed by residents of Glendun Nursing Home
• “The Green Glens of Antrim” sung by Trea O Boyle
• “I Dream of Ballycastle” sung by Joe Mc Cambridge
• “Thoughts of Home” written and read by Eileen Winter
• Archive content supported by NI Screen Digital Film Archive
• Original production by Dumbworld and Our Place in Space