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The IMRO PodcastMusic Current Festival 2024In this episode of the IMRO Podcast, we report back from the Music Current Festival 2024.Music Current is an annual contemporary music festival produced by Dublin Sound Lab, and taking place in the Project Arts Centre and Contemporary Music Centre in Temple Bar. The festival showcases contemporary Irish and new international electronic music as well facilitating workshops, professional development classes and public panel discussions.This years festival took place in April and Danny Carroll spoke to some of the people involved as well as doing a bit of interactive volunteering.Over the course...
2024-06-1326 min
amplifyamplify #102 - Future Music Panel Live @ Music Current Festival 2024A special live episode of amplify which was recorded at this year's Music Current Festival panel discussion presented in partnership with the Contemporary Music Centre. The panel was chaired by CMC's Director, Evonne Ferguson.Show Notes"Here, four composers, academics, researchers and media artists share insights into their personal practices, working methods, compositional techniques, rationale, and the strategies they use to approach compositional problems, and how technology might inform future music developments."Source: Music Current Festival - Future MusicPa...
2024-04-2340 min
The IMRO PodcastMusic Current Special with Fergal Dowling, Izumi Kimura & Francis HeeryThis edition of the IMRO Podcast is focused on the Music Current Festival 2023.Taking place in the Project Arts Centre and Contemporary Music Centre in Dublin, the Music Current Festival showcases contemporary Irish and new electronic music across four nights from the 12th to the 15th of April.First started in 2016, this year’s Music Current Festival features four new concerts and a chamber opera, as well as workshops and discussions that explore the cutting edge of new music. To find out more, Danny Carroll spoke with the musicians Francis Heery and Izumi Ki...
2023-04-111h 27
amplifyamplify #72 - 'Future Music?', a discussion from Music Current 2022amplify #72 - ‘Future Music?': a discussion from Music Current 2022Recorded in April as part of the Music Current 2022 festival, this episode features a discussion entitled ‘Future Music?' on musical life after the pandemic. Introduced and chaired by CMC Director Evonne Ferguson, the discussion, recorded at the Project Arts Centre in front of an audience, includes composer Natacha Diels, Music Current artistic director Fergal Dowling, and Journal of Music editor Toner Quinn.Show NotesFUTURE MUSIC? event detailsmusiccurrent.ieFergal DowlingJournal of MusicNatacha Diels Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2022-07-2819 min
CMCIrelandamplify #53: Music Current 2021Episode 53 features conversations with some of the artists involved in this year's Music Current festival, which took place in November. Composer and festival director Fergal Dowling on the background and aims of the festival, clarinetist Paul Roe along with composers Neil O'Conner and Elis Czerniak on their collaborations, flautists Lina Andonovska and Richard Craig, and Seán O Dailaigh on his new piece written especially for Richard. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson.
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2021-12-0843 min
amplifyamplify #53: Music Current 2021Episode 53 features conversations with some of the artists involved in this year's Music Current festival, which took place in November. Composer and festival director Fergal Dowling on the background and aims of the festival, clarinetist Paul Roe along with composers Neil O'Conner and Elis Czerniak on their collaborations, flautists Lina Andonovska and Richard Craig, and Seán O Dailaigh on his new piece written especially for Richard. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson.Show NotesMusic CurrentFergal DowlingCMC composer pagefergaldowling.comMusic Current SoloistsNeil O'ConnorOrdnance Survey - Field WorkCMC composer pageneiloconnor.orgElis CzerniakLina Andonovska - Public P...
2021-12-0843 min
Leading Through Uncertainty62: Fergal Dowling of Irwin Mitchell on leading in lockdownFergal Dowling is a partner at Irwin Mitchell and Head of Employment law. He shares the challenges of moving to remote working with very short notice and how they are operating under pressure with a significant increase in workload at a time when regulation is changing daily.
2020-04-0139 min
Leading Through Uncertainty62: Fergal Dowling of Irwin Mitchell on leading in lockdownSend us a text Fergal Dowling is a partner at Irwin Mitchell and Head of Employment law. He shares the challenges of moving to remote working with very short notice and how they are operating under pressure with a significant increase in workload at a time when regulation is changing daily.
2020-04-0139 min
ambiencellistAndTheBirdsSang - MusicCurrent-13-4-19And The Birds Sang (Music Current 2019)
Performed by Retro Disco at Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin - 13.4.19
Moritz Mullenbach: Cello
Simone Keller: Synth
Samuel Stoll: Horn
The performers were responding to an interactive game score which can be seen at http://www.fitchsounds.com/ATBS/atbs.html
Recorded by Fergal Dowling and Alexis Nealon
2019-04-1806 min
The Chip RaceSeason 1 Episode 2Tonight, we're joined by poker pro Chris Dowling. We’ll bring you news from those Norwegian Championships, a round-up of who won what online as well as a special report from Fergal Nealon on last weekend’s Connacht Open.
2017-04-0645 min
CMCIrelandFergal Dowling on Music TownArtistic Director of Dublin Sound Lab Fergal Dowling talks about the background behind the Music Current festival, which took place from 7-9 April 2016; and his new work 'Spoils' which was performed as part of the festival.
2016-04-2107 min
CMCIrelandInterview with Fergal DowlingComposer and Dublin Sound Lab Director Fergal Dowling talks about the collective's latest project, 'Places and Responses', two concerts presented during the Dublin Fringe Festival on 17-18 September featuring the work of Austrian composer Peter Ablinger and Irish composers Piaras Hoban, Gráinne Mulvey, Fergal Dowling and Rob Canning.
Music featured: Peter Ablinger - 'Three Places Gratz' and Fergal Dowling - 'Three Reconstruction'
2014-09-1208 min
CMCIrelandInterview with Fergal Dowling and Michael QuinnDublin Sound Lab members Fergal Dowling and Michael Quinn talk about their programme for the InnerSound International Arts Festival in Bucharest, which takes place on 28 August 2012.
See http://cmcireland.wordpress.com/2012/08/08/dublin-sound-lab-innersound/ for further information.
2012-08-2109 min