Culture File

Leitrim-based sound artist and composer, Natalia Beylis harvests the music of her neighbourhood, from birdsong to woodshed work and decomposing pianos.

Rhona Clarke's retrospective CD recalls the composer's work for choirs over 30 years.

Artists Pauline Cummins and Frances Mezzetti on their long-running performance series in which they wander through the streets of European cities in the guise of men.

Writer, academic and inventor of the 10/40/70 film review, Nicholas Rombes shares some of his favourite things in reading, watching, listening, tasting and smelling.

From Kinshasa to Buenos Aires via London with musician Juanita Euka; from Dublin to Bengaluru with artist Kerry Guinan; how to read a film from just three frames with Nick Rombes, and Jennifer Walshe on the Patron Saint of the Internet.

Artist Kerry Guinan's biggest project yet involves connecting Dublin and Bangalore via a set of Arduino-enabled sewing machines.

Junita Euka's first album sees the Congo-born, Argentina-raised and British-based singer-songwriter find her voice in Lingala, French, Spanish and English.

Nicholas Rombes is the creator of a unique approach to film criticism: just look at the frames at 10th, 40th and 70th minute of any film.

Artist and composer, Jennifer Walshe sings a hymn of praise to the patron saint of the Internet. Which is a thing.

Painter and mushroom fancier, Mark Francis on some of the things he's been enjoying in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.

From the heart of Europe to Galways via the string quartet; the immerise electronics of Éliane Radigue in Berlin; hacking anti-skate architecture in Dublin; and swaying to the samba in a forest in Roscommon at Festival In The Forest.

Bianca Fachel has created Music In The Forest, a sustainable hybrid festival at her Roscommon base, bringing together Brazilian and Irish sounds.

Artist and and skateboarder, Matthew Stickland has been tracking the ways his city cancels his right to roll.

Music writer, Liam Cagney underwent some deep immersion at a recent Berlin celebration of the pioneering French composer, Eliane Radigue.

After much travel into the unknown and unexpected, a Galway project to play string quartets from all 27 EU states is nearly complete.

Journalist, writer and curator, Mary Morrissy on some of her current favourite watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.

Jennifer Walshe on the latest twists in robot technology, which involve a robot goat; Claire Halpin deals on her exhibition created from random playing cards found on the streets; we peep through the tiny windows of box of rehearsing metal musicians in Limerick; and Kit Fryatt collaborates with an AI on some poetry.

Sara Greavu, Curator of Visual Arts at Project Arts Centre, Laura Raicovich author of Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest, artist Emma Roche and curator at Kilmainham Gaol Museum/Pearse Museum, Brian Crowley, assemble to navigate the contested space of museums.

Poet Kit Fryatt has been collaborating with an AI to create text about a long-lost medieval painting as part of an ‘algorithmic storytelling’ performance.

Artist Michelle Doyle's latest work, Models of Practice, encouraged the public to eavesdrop on the creative process of Limerick metal bands, such as Red Sun Alert

Artist, Claire Halpin is finally at the end of her project to assemble an entire deck via finding random playing cards on the street

Jennifer Walshe sifts through the products at the world's biggest robots trade fair, Tokyo's IREX 2022.

Music done otherwise is the business of Dabbledoo, a programme that aims to give young learners the best possible first taste of listening, performing and composing.

Mary Morrissy remembers the glowy moment she discovered a love for the paintings of Una Watters; Paddy Woodworth breaks the rules by adding a second book by Helen Macdonald to The Naturalist Bookshelf, and Aine Gallagher heads into a pleasantly distressed industrial space in central dublin to hear how to do music education right.

Paddy Woodworth gives over a rare second spot in his collection of essential nature writing to Helen Macdonald's troubling collection, Vesper Flights.