Culture File

Monaghan composer Michael Gallen's opera Elsewhere is inspired by the 1919 strike, occupation and declaration as a soviet of the local asylum.

Róisín Blunnie on her collection of wintery contemporary vocal music, Ghost Songs, Xenia Pestova Bennet on an electronic variation on the Goldberg variations, the start-up-cyclers behind Refunk, and Jennifer Walshe on petting dogs in video games.

Ellie Walters and Ellen Ryall of upcycling startup, Refunk share some of their reading, watching, listening, tasting and smelling pleasures

Ellie Walters and Ellen Ryall of upcycling startup, Refunk share some of their reading, watching, listening, tasting and smelling pleasures

Ellie Walters and Ellen Ryall of upcycling startup, Refunk share some of their reading, watching, listening, tasting and smelling pleasures

Laetare Vocal Ensemble's seasonal new album showcases new choral work by Irish composers inspired by wintery texts from writers living and dead.

Xenia Pestova Bennet takes on composer, Karlheinz Essl's Gold. Berg. Werk, which blends a Bach landmark with contemporary electronics and specialised audio

Laetare Vocal Ensemble's seasonal new album showcases new choral work by Irish composers inspired by wintery texts from writers living and dead.

Dublin upcycling startup, Refunk, has a plan to stop good, old furniture heading to landfill.

The wanderings of her cat Nomi, propel Jennifer Walshe into the realm of human-digipet interaction.

Channelling Joseph Beuys with Druid performance artist, Rónán Ó Raghallaigh, listening to the looms at Studio Donegal and walking Shannonside with the man behind a concept album for Limerick pedestrians.

Singer and composer, Fehdah shares some of her favourite reading, listening, watching, tasting and smelling.

Aine Gallagher brings her recorder to Studio Donegal, in Kilcar, to listen to the looms, and their operators.

The art and ideas of Joseph Beuys inspire the Irish painter, performance artist and shamanic conduit, Rónán Ó Raghallaigh.

In Limerick, a popular Shannon walk inspired a concept album for pedestrians from local act, Anna's Anchor.

Artist, composer and Things Know Things creator, Jennifer Walshe shares some of her recent discoveries in tv, books, podcasts, music, food and scent.

Inside the headset studio of digital artist, Elaine Hoey, Jennifer Walshe on the joy of objects you might touch, the music of pre-revolutionary Paris, and prepping for the famine in Irish language feature, Arracht.

Her Parisian salon was legendary for its famous guests, but equally for the music Anne Louise Brillon de Jouy played there.

The stupidity of crowds meets the amorality of technology in a new solo show from digital artist, Elaine Hoey

James Bond has some stern competition in Colmán Sharkey, the central character of Tom Sullivan's famine drama.

Two enigmatic stoneworks, 700-odd miles apart, remind Jennifer Walshe of the uses and attractions of non-virtual objects.

The exploits of 1930s swim pioneer, Mercedes Gleitze, celebrated in the work of Vanessa Daws; botanical painter, Yanny Petters voyages around her Wicklow garden; Jennifer Walshe on the ideal 21st century musical education; and Yves B Golden's latest radio poem created for Culture File.

Interpreter of contemporary vocal music, Elizabeth Hilliard, on a few of her favourite things

Yves B Golden returns with a new radio poem called Karmageddon

Extended version of this week's conversation with composer, artist and Oxford Prof of Composition, Jennifer Walshe, touching on, prepping, hugging walls, William Gibson, Meredith Monk, Databots, Early Music, AI, music education and some musical confusion.