Sending letters to the sea.

12” vinyl CD and digital release.

A collaborative music project informed by the historical connections between music and faith.

In 2007 a number of artists were selected to be part of Fingal County Council's Public Art Panel. The selected artists were invited to respond to a brief which reflected, either physically or theoretically, aspects of Fingal's society, culture, heritage, and geography with the aim of expanding the notion of public art and role of the local authority as a commissioner of new practices.

When selected to be part of this panel Mark tried to find a mechanism that would both engage in a local context but have the scope to reach a diverse and far reaching audience. Mark is very interested in Ireland's culturally Christian status and the broader cultural impact of Christianity. The artist engaged in a period of research, looking at the connections between music and religious celebration from both technical and philosophical perspectives and how religion and religious instances throughout history influenced and shaped the many forms of music we hear today. The process evolved to become a collaborative musical project that incorporated elements of Mark's research in its development in a variety of subtle and more overt ways. Mark brought together a range of musicians working in broad range of classical and contemporary musical techniques. The outcome from this collaboration was a Vinyl and CD release that was developed over a two year period and recorded in Studio East in Berlin and St. Columba's Church.

For this project Mark brought together a remarkably talented group of diverse musical talents. Electro/acoustic musician and composer Karl Burke (AKA Karl Him), the multi-talented Irish female musician Nina Hynes, remarkable young jazz percussionist Sean Carpio, electronic musician Eileen Carpio, French classically trained pianist Fabien Leseure and Paris based Jazz Violin player Benoit Leseure. These group enlisted the talents of Geaspar Warfield on Cello and John Egan on Violin and Viola and The Fingal chamber choir. This recording was performed live on the evening of 19 November 2010 in St. Columba's Church, Swords.