Where the Paths End is a new album by one of the most exciting Irish composers of his generation, Seán Clancy. Bringing together works written between 2013 and 2025, the album explores lived experience, repetition and loss through Clancy’s distinctive, deadpan aesthetic. Performed by the critically-acclaimed Plus-Minus Ensemble, it presents a focused body of work shaped by clarity, precision and emotional restraint.

The album centres on Clancy’s practice of “translation”: rendering everyday experiences into sound without commentary or judgement, allowing meaning to emerge through attentive listening. Environmental recordings, projected text and domestic sounds become musical material - drawing attention to both the monumental and the mundane.

Plus-Minus Ensemble