This week's files take us: into the canopy in East Cork, at The Seed Pavilion; to meet Lonnie G. Bunch III, director of the network of museums and galleries that is The Smithsonian Institution; and through 25 years of RTÉ lyric fm in about six minutes.

Composer and academic, Sean Clancy on a few of his favourites in watching, listening, reading, tasting and smelling.

The original Celtic celebration of Bealtaine gets an eco-spin at a temporary treehouse in Glenbower Woods in Killeagh this bank holiday weekend.

Like many American visitors to Ireland, Lonnie G. Bunch III, head of the Smithsonian, has uncovered some Irish heritage. But for him the discovery produces ambivalent feelings.

Like many American visitors to Ireland, Lonnie G. Bunch III, head of the Smithsonian, has uncovered some Irish heritage. But for him the discovery produces ambivalent feelings.

Jennifer Walshe's data springwatch, Joseph Young brings the ancestors black to life in the garden at Kilruddery, a world of bleeps and bips in the experimental electronic music studio, Ruth Clinton sings her latest songbook.

Composer and vocalist, Laura Bowler shares her current worlds in watching, readings, listening, tasting and smelling

Neil O'Connor, aka Ordnance Survey, aka Somadrone, is our guide for a safari among the blinking and beeping hardware at the brand new University of Limerick Electronic Music Studio (ULEMS).

More a gathering of friends than a supergroup, Tradition Now festival act Ruth Clinton teams up with Sinead Landless, Corman Lankum and Consuelo Varo to explore Clinton's new songbook, This Fearless Maid II.

Sound artist Joseph Young's new work, The Ancestors, places the voices of the long departed, among other sounds, around the gardens of Kilruddery House in Co Wicklow.

Spring is Here: The evolution of alarm clocks brings a new understanding of Springtime in composer and artist Jennifer Walshe's latest audio epistle.

This year, for the first time ever a European Capital of Culture is located within the arctic circle, in Bodø, Norway, where events focus on the precarious cultures and ecologies of this icy part of the world, as well as the region's most famous, most perplexing writer, Knut Hamsun.

Per Elling Braseth-Ellingsen of the Hamsun Centre, Norway, on some of his favourite things in watching, reading (would you guess that it's a book by Knut Hamsun), listening, tasting and smelling.

Deep inside the Arctic circle in Hamarøy, the childhood home of Nobel prize-winning Norwegian novelist, Knut Hamsum, a new exhibition deals with the writer's troubling legacy (Part 2).

Deep inside the Arctic circle in Hamarøy, the childhood home of Nobel prize-winning Norwegian novelist, Knut Hamsun, a new exhibition deals with the writer's troubling legacy (Part 1).

English sheep farmer and writer James Rebanks' attention has turned to another type of farming practiced on remote Norwegian islands: eider down gathering.

Beginning a week of programs from inside the arctic circle at European Capital of Culture 2024, Bodø, we meet the man who makes music from an implement traditionally used by Eider gatherers.

Jennifer Walsh on the AI-imagine colours of old Ireland; All You Need Is Death director, Paul Duane on Irish folk horror in film and song; Laura Bowler tries to sing while getting tattooed in her new piece for New Music Dublin; and Deirdre O'Mahony's eco-opera film, The Quickening goes on a tour of "walls and halls".

Maynooth-based Brazilian composer, Victor Lazzarini has some suggestions for your weekend treats in watching, listening, reading, tasting and smelling

Artist, Deirdre O'Mahony's long running project on Irish foodways blossoms into an operatic film installation at the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin and a national tour of "walls and halls".

Vocalist and composer, Laura Bowler's approach to New Music demands she gives audiences something to watch, as well as something to listen to and think about, whether that be mid-performance boxing, or for her latest work, live tattooing.

It lives! And by "it' we mean Irish Folk Horror, which is reanimated in the hands of documentary maker, Paul Duane with his first feature film, All You Need Is Death.

Old Ireland In Colour: Jennifer Walsh on what the best-selling books of colourised photos of the country's past can reveal about the nature of remembering, human and artificial.

Recorded live at the Fidelio Winter Chamber Music Festival at St. Patrick's Drumcondra, our panel of Fidelio Trio pianist, Mary Dullea, and composers, Ronah Clarke and John Buckley, talk to Luke Clancy about music commissions: getting and giving. (First broadcast 231223)