Episodes
Composer and conductor, Timothy Brock, on his "historically informed performance" of silent film music, and bringing back to life the movie scores written by Charlie Chaplin for his own films.
Published 11/15/24
Orkney composer, Erland Cooper on some of life's delight's including the film music of Isobel Waller-Bridge and a special scented candle that smells of the Pacific South West.
Published 11/15/24
Beta Festival visitors artist Maeve Stone and her cyborg shamen mentor, futurist Adah Parris, drop round for a cup of something soothing with Caoimhe Lavelle.
Published 11/14/24
Timothy Brock has restored scores for a dozen of Charlie Chaplin's films, most recently A Woman of Paris. (2/2) Music from A WOMAN OF PARIS Copyright © Roy Export S.A.S. Audio extracts from the Chaplin Archive Copyright © Roy Export Company Ltd.
Published 11/13/24
Bringing back to life the music created by Charlie Chaplin for his own films, such as Modern Times, is the calling of composer and conductor, Timothy Brock. (1/2)
Published 11/12/24
Rewalking a memorable path through "Handel's Dublin" in the company of the late historian, Jonathan Bardon. (1/4)
Published 11/11/24
Why flavour is in the brain and not the glass at Taste Week in Paris; robotic eye rolling at Beta Digital Festival in Dublin's Liberties; Orit Gat's celebration of pigeonkind; and Paddy Woodworth's Naturalist's Bookshelf.
Published 11/08/24
The watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling pleasures of musician, composer and sound designer, Anna Mullarkey.
Published 11/08/24
Warming up for our live session at The National Botanic Gardens, writer Orit Gat makes the case for loving 'n' leaving alone the pigeon.
Published 11/07/24
Updating the legacy of Auguste Escoffier with some brand new flavours and techniques at "Taste Week" in Paris.
Published 11/06/24
The subversive power of the eye roll this time, with artist Caroline Mac Cathmhaoil creator of This Is How Eye Roll, an artwork programmed to respond to world events with the gesture.
Published 11/05/24
Paddy Woodworth's latest selection for "the shelf" is a deeply illustrated nature book for younger readers from Michael Fewer and illustrator Melissa Doran (Melissa Culhane).
Published 11/04/24
The uncanny side of being bilingual with seanos singer, Ceara Conway; Caoimhe Lavelle on the lost Dublin - and lost body -- of Gothic author, Charles Maturin; and sountracking trauma and anxiety on stage with sound designer Anna Mullarkey.
Published 11/01/24
Composer, musician and longtime Gil Scott Heron collaborator, Brian Jackson on some things to look up in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.
Published 11/01/24
A twilight tour through the lost city of once-celebrated Dublin author of gothic fictions, Charles Maturin, creator of Melmoth The Wanderer.
Published 10/31/24
Bilingual singer and artist, Ceara Conway on her recent work exploring disappearances and losses - in language and birds.
Published 10/30/24
Soundtracking the inner spaces of trauma and anxiety, as composer and sound designer, Anna Mullarkey teams up with Enda Walsh.
Published 10/29/24
Lady Gregory in America, and in jail, in Colm Toibin's new opera at Wexford, Jemiriye of Les Amazones D'Afrique on campaigning in song, drinking stars in the piano music of John McLachlan and Paddy Woodworth's latest entry for The Naturalist's Bookshelf.
Published 10/25/24
A few of the favourite things in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling of Dublin-based Colombian-Italian composer, Caterina Schembri.
Published 10/25/24
Thirty years of piano composition meets up on a new album from Dublin-born composer, John McLachlan's Drinking The Stars.
Published 10/24/24
Jemiriye, part of African women's super group, Les Amazones d’Afrique on campaigning in song.
Published 10/23/24
Novelist, Colm Tóibín tries out comic opera in his Wexford Festival production, set during The Abbey Theatre company's US tour of Playboy of the Western World in 1911.
Published 10/22/24
Paddy Woodworth's latest selection for inclusion on his shelf of nature books celebrates the undersung—and unsung—work of Irish nature artists.
Published 10/21/24
An audio jaunt to Espiscol Cathedral of St John the Divine in New York City for an animal mass, rethinking the ear with Norwegian artist and musician, Camille Norment, and sensing sea salt and turpentine in the music of composer Caterina Schembri.
Published 10/18/24