Culture File

Writer and researcher, K Alado McDowell on writing with AI, the statistics of language, and the natures of spirits in the machine, in an extended version of our interview broadcast this week.

Multi-hyphenated theatre makers, Eva O'Conor and Hildegarde Ryan on some recent favourites in watching, reading, listening tasting and smelling

K Allado-McDowell on their AI collab novel, Amour Cringe and the possibility of sentient AI, sound artist, Danny McCarthy's new use for chamber pots, and organist, Amanda Mole gets acquainted with the organ at St Bartholomew's, Ballsbridge.

US recitalist, Amanda Mole is getting to know the organ at St Bartholomew's, Ballsbridge for her dates at Pipeworks 2022.

Cork sound artist, Danny McCarthy's latest homage to James Joyce is a sound installation celebrating a famous potty pun...

What is new about recent AI-generated texts, such as K Allado-McDowell's novel, Amount Cringe, created via GPT-3?

K Allado-McDowell has been using GPT-3 as a writing partner, most recently for a novella, Amour Cringe.

Hearing colours with three musicians who variously experience chromothesia, the musical occult in the form of musical ghostwriters; and Jennifer Walshe enjoys getting a regular email from Dracula.

Writer, talker and Irish Aesthete on the 'gram, Robert O'Byrne on some of his favorites in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.

In music, there are many ways of "getting the work out there" that don't involve becoming a household name...

Tara Scanlan's experience of 'hearing colours,' she discovered, is something she shares with her friend, fellow composer, Ciaran McGinn.

Even the undead are on Substack now. Jennifer Walshe has been enjoying an email newsletter of Bram Stoker's epistolary novel. And the memes.

Culture File sets sail for Barbados Celtic Festival and hears from among others, champion calypsonian, The Mighty Gabby; Mark O'Callaghan, son of To Hell or Barbados author, the late Sean O'Callaghan; and Barbados' Poet Laureate, Esther Phillips.

Barbados poet laureate, Esther Phillips reads and explores her new poem, My Ancestors Gifted Me Their Silence.

Barbados poet laureate, Esther Phillips on her new body of work questing for the real meanings of reparations.

The papers of "To Hell Or Barbados" author, Sean O'Callaghan find a home in the Barbados' Department of Archives.

Culture File's sojourn on the freshly-minted Republic of Barbados begins with a walk on the beach with Rihanna's favourite calypsonian, The Mighty Gabby.

In a outdoorsy edition, Robert O'Byrne on the history of the Irish garden, Paddy Woodworth on a book examining a square meter of forest, Liam Cagney on a Donegal childhood, and Mark Jenkins thinks bittersweet thoughts of home in Wales

Hip Hop artist and Dublin Dance Festival Dancescape curator, Tobi Omoteso on some of the things he's been enjoying

Liam Cagney on a boyhood learning to love Orbital, The Orb and all the pomps of a Rave New 90s World.

Robert "The Irish Aesthete" O'Bryne's latest project is "In Harmony with Nature" an exhibition tracing the history of the Irish Country House Gardens.

For her latest plunge into the life of a musician in turbulent times, Cliodhna Ryan talks to Welsh-born double bassist, Mark Jenkins.

Paddy Woodworth's latest addition to The Naturalist's Bookshelf is David George Haskell's minutely observational 2012 volume, The Forest Unseen.

Amala Dianor on uniting dance scenes from across West Africa, Tobi Omoteso on the past present and future of Street Dance, and digging in with the struggle to turn dance into words with Liz and Jenny Roche.

For Dublin Dance Festival, choreographer and Liz Roche Company co-founder, Liz Roche shares some of her favourites in watching, listening, tasting and smelling.