TÍRDHREACHA BEO / LIVE LANDSCAPES, Mícheál Keating

‘TÍRDHREACHA BEO / LIVE LANDSCAPES’ is an audiovisual publication that emerged from time spent wandering around rural County Limerick between 2023 and 2025, engaging with its landscapes through musical improvisation, field recording, photography, and writing. The resulting work casts Limerick in a contemplative and uncanny light — foregrounding hauntology, immanence, and becoming in the landscape, while tracing entanglements between human, non-human, and land.

The publication features an 108-page book of 120mm landscape photography produced in collaboration with designer Hugh Heffernan. It is accompanied by an 18-track CD of improvised performances recorded by Keating in outdoor locations across County Limerick, his voice and electroacoustic sounds coalescing with the rural soundscapes. This body of work channels a desire to build collective attention towards the complexity of the land, and to cultivate agency and care in our relationship with place.

About the Artist
Mícheál Keating is a musician and media artist from Limerick, Ireland. His practice spans sound composition, improvisation, and performance, as well as photography, video, writing, and generative systems. He synthesises these elements into uncanny multimedia explorations of the rural Limerick landscape. His work foregrounds hauntology, immanence, and becoming in the landscape, while tracing entanglements between human, non-human, and land. He previously published 'TERRA: Digital Ephemera from DoneDeal', a zine that explores rural Limerick through the image culture of the classifieds site DoneDeal.

Keating has released 2 critically acclaimed LPs as singer/songwriter/producer of the art-rock band Bleeding Heart Pigeons (2008-2020), and he currently performs with improvised noise collective Péist, post-rock band The Low Field and singer/songwriter Laura Duff. He is also active as a music producer, media art tech, and festival organiser with Féile na Gréine.

Self Published
Softcover with an audio CD insert inside a card wallet inside the front cover
108 pages
210 x 180 mm