Clang Sayne is a platform for songwriter and improvisor, Laura Hyland to collaborate with other artists through improvisation. It began in 2008 as a music group exploring the boundaries between song and improvisation, the main output of which to date has been the album, 'Winterlands', and ongoing public performances.

'Winterlands' came about through collaboration with various players, three of whom I worked very closely with in the making of the final recording: guitarist, James O Sullivan, bassist, Peter Marsh and drummer, Matt Fisher. Others who did not feature on the finished work, but whose playing and insight I am indebted to include bassists, Guillaume Viltard and Armin Sturm, cellist, Ute Kanngiesser, electronicists, Conor Curran and Grundik Kasyansky, and vocalists, Natahsa Lohan, Rebecca Collins and Christine Ellison.

Prior to leaving London for Ireland in June 2010, I recorded a second album (as of yet untitled) with James, Peter, and percussionist, Paul May. A follow-on from the part-composed/part-improvised 'Winterlands', this is an entirely improvised work that draws on many hours spent playing together throughout 2009/2010, with no agenda other than to make musical sense of each other's individual 'voices' at any given moment, as a group. The album consists of four unedited improvisations from our final studio session, and is due for release on the Forwind label in December 2011.

Current projects in the long and labyrinthine pipeline include a choral quartet with vocalists, Laura Murphy, Enda O Cathain and Judith Ring, and a guitar & fiddle duo with Enda O Cathain. As of yet, I do not know what will materialise from either of these colaborations - or when, but so far the journey is promising.