Culture File

A chorus of West Cork voices recall the Clonakilty days of legendary psychedelic bassist, Noel Redding; the musical memes that bring Bob Marley and Johann Sebastian Bach together at Galway Early Music Festival, and Jennifer Walshe celebrates the loveably nerdy performance art picnick that was Joshfight.

The Baroque roots of earworms from Eddie Cochran to Bob Marley and Led Zeppelin at Galway Early Music Festival 2021.

Second part of our audio history of Jimi Hendrix Experience bass player, Noel Redding's life in Clonakilty, as told by the people who shared it with him (part 2)

An audio history of Jimi Hendrix Experience bass player, Noel Redding's life in Clonakilty, as told by the people who shared it with him (part 1)

What does an army of men gathered in a field, fighting for the right to be called "Josh" tell us about the future of community? #JoshFight

The watching, listening, reading and sniffing choices of Prof. David Crowley, Head of the School of Visual Culture, NCAD, Dublin.

Things take an apocalyptic turn this time, in artist Danny Osborne's visions melting ice and molten lava, Heather O'Donoghue's reading of the old Norse image of Yggdrasill, and in Bill McKibben's classic, The End of Nature, which is Paddy Woodworth latest choice for The Naturalist's Bookshelf.

Paddy Woodworth's voyage along a bookshelf of essential nature writing reaches Bill McKibben's The End of Nature.

How the stories and heroes of Old Norse continue to shape 21st-century minds (Yggdrasill Remix)

Artist and explorer, Danny Osborne, on the draw and danger of his favourite material, molten lava. (2/2)

From the Arctic to the Andes, via the Beara Peninsula, with artist and explorer, Danny Osborne.

This week, Jennifer Walshe encounters a drone called Destiny, composer, Darragh Kelly on what happens when you feed an AI system with a who's-who of Irish composers, and Cloughjordan-based Portuguese choreographer, Rita Marcalo's dancing-gardening-baking project.

Music technologists, Damon Hancock and Oli Cash of Oddsound shares some of their favourite watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.

Dancing about architecture is proverbially a bad idea, but what about dancing about gardening, or dancing about sourdough?

Composer, Darragh Kelly on creating music in collaboration with an AI nourished on a "who's who" of contemporary Irish composition.

For her latest meditation on the human/non-human boundary, composer, Jennifer Walshe thinks about NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter

This month's panel looks at the disturbance in the art world caused by blockchain technologies. New hope for artists to control their own work or just another twist in the financialization of art? On the panel, Virginia Tech's Aisling Kelliher, painter, Hughie Donoghue, NCAD's Rachel O'Dwyer and crypto-art pioneer, Ruth Catlow.

Composer, Darragh Kelly on some of the reading, watching, listening, tasting and smelling he's been enjoying recently

From France under a state of emergency, with novelist, Noemi Lefebvre, to the Irish borderlands under the foot of Tom Keeley, and Yosemite National Park, revisited by its original custodians in Paddy Woodworth's latest addition to The Naturalist's Bookshelf.

Tom Keeley on the materials and the forms that mark "the Irish borderlands" and which are catalogued in his long-running Border-walking project (2/2)

How a find in a Derry bookshop inspired Tom Keeley's ongoing patrol of the Irish border's landscape and architecture.

Noemi Lefebvre and her regular translator, Sophie Lewis, on welcoming into English "Poetics of Work" an experimental novel of post-Bataclan France,

Paddy Woodworth on the prescient and hopeful message embedded in Simon Schama's 1995 exploration of humans and their home planet, Landscape and Memory

Jennifer Walshe on the hidden talents of Amazon's Halo wristband; a new collaborative dance work about people with dementia and their careers, Crash Ensemble's commission from composer, Lara Gallagher; and the technology making life sweeter for Aphex Twin and other composers lured by a world beyond twelve tones of equal temperament.

The favourite things of composer, Lara Gallagher, whose commission for Crash Ensemble at this year's New Music Dublin features live onstage painting