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Culture FileCulture File "Likes": Dan ColleyDirector and creator of DTF show, Lost Lear, Dan Colley on a few of his favourites in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling
2022-09-3006 minCulture FileStatus and Culture Special | Culture File WeeklyW David Marx on how humans' constant struggle for status drives innovation, shaping our art and culture in the most surprising ways.
2022-09-3029 minCulture FileStatus and Culture 3 | Culture FileW David Marx on how the internet and omnivorous taste are remaking the function of culture. (Part 3 - Extended interview coming up in The Culture File Weekly, Sat 1st.)
2022-09-3007 minCulture FileStatus and Culture 2 | Culture FileHow French sociologist, Pierre Bordieu helps us understand culture; plus where the freest jazz comes from, in the second part of our conversation with author, W David Marx. (part 2)
2022-09-2907 minCulture FileStatus and Culture 1 | Culture FileDavid W Marx's new book, Status and Culture looks at how human hunger for status can't help shaping the art and culture we produce. (Part 1)
2022-09-2807 minCulture FileThe Cloud of Unknowing | Culture FileFor his latest radio poem, Tadgh O'Sullivan meditates on maps, war and the life of Hungarian poet, Miklós Radnóti.
2022-09-2708 minCulture FileCulture File "Likes": Liam McCarthyLimerick playwright and curator of Bualadh Bos Children’s Festival, Liam McCarthy shares some of his favourite things.
2022-09-2304 minCulture FileWOMAD 22 | Culture FileBicycle-based Ukrainian fusion band / song collecting project, Folknery on lost words and lost worlds.
2022-09-2308 minCulture FileLost Lear | Culture FileDirector and writer, Dan Colley's Dublin Theatre Festival show rehearses the good bits of King Lear in the service of caring for a woman with dementia.
2022-09-2207 minCulture FileThe Trotskys in Kilsheelan... | Culture File...and Other Histories of Unreliable Origin is Stephen Brandes' vision of a dubious Irish tour by the Russian revolutionary and his wife.
2022-09-2107 minCulture FileThings Know Things | Culture File"Telling the Bees": Jennifer Walshe on the Facebook bees of Co Meath.
2022-09-2004 minCulture FileCulture File "Likes": Karen DonnellanGlassmaker, sound artist and healer, Karen Donnellan on a few of her favourite things in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.
2022-09-1604 minCulture FileThe Culture File Weekly Sept 17th: Karen Donnellan, Luke Fowler, Paddy Woodworth, WOMAD22Healing tones in the art of Karen Donnellan, Luke Fowler on filmmaker, Margaret Tait, performance poets Bambi & Dizarel and Paddy Woodworth on naturalist, John Hay.
2022-09-1629 minCulture FileWOMAD 22 | Culture FilePerformance Poetry at WOMAD 22, with first timer, Bambi, and veteran of the UK scene, Dizreali.
2022-09-1608 minCulture FileBeing in a Place | Culture FileAfter films on figures such as Cornelius Cardew and RD Laing, artist-filmmaker, Luke Fowler turns his attention to the Orkney poet and filmmaker, Margaret Tait.
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Culture FileCulture File Fall/Winter CollectionCulture File back popping up in your podcast places each day, and on RTÉ lyric fm weekdays, 6.40pm - and for those who like the bigger gulp, The Culture File Weekly is Saturday, 6.30pm.
2022-09-1400 minCulture FileKaren Donnelan | Culture FileHow the 528 Hz "miracle note" and other aspects of sonic healing inform the work of Irish artist, Karen Donnellan.
2022-09-1408 minCulture FileThe Naturalist's Bookshelf: The Way to the Salt Marsh | Culture FileFor his latest choice of essential writing on the natural world, Paddy Woodworth selects the work of John Hay collected in The Way to the Salt Marsh.
2022-09-1307 minCulture FileCulture File "Likes": Steve ValkFrankfurt-based dramaturg and theorist, Steve Valk to share with some of the things in his culture swag bag
2022-09-1207 minCulture FileThe Culture File Weekly Sept 10th: Documenta 15A special edition from the art lollapalooza that is this year's Documenta 15 in Kassel, curated by a collective of collectives, initiated by the Jakarta-based ruangrupa. Plus Jennifer Walshe.
2022-09-0928 minCulture FileDocumenta 15/3 | Culture FileTania Bruguera founded Cuba's Hannah Arendt Artivism Institute to throw light on the 100s deemed non-artists in her homeland. (3/3)
2022-09-0907 minCulture FileDocumenta 15/2 | Culture FileCulture File's visit to Kassel to the city's once-every-five-years global art event continues with a wander into the palan (Bengali kitchen garden) of Dhaka-based Britto Arts Trust (2/3)
2022-09-0807 minCulture FileDocumenta 14/1 (Part1) | Culture FileCulture File begins a week of visits to the art event that made Kassel famous, with a tour of the Lumbung Press with Mexican artist, Erick Beltrán (1/3)
2022-09-0707 minCulture FileJennifer Walshe's Things Know Things | Culture FileJennifer Walshe on what AI image generation is doing to the meaning of art.
2022-09-0605 minCulture FileJennifer Walshe's Things Know Things Spring Summer Collection, 22The year so far in "things" - in a gathering of composer and artist, Jennifer Walshe's regular Culture File feature, Things Know Things, exploring everything from cloning petfluencers to emergent bookclubs.
2022-09-0228 minCulture FileThe Culture File Weekly August 27th: Hidden Trees Slow Remix (Part 2)Float further up into the canopy with the second part of our Culture File Weekly Slow Remix, featuring woodsman, Aubrey Fennell, along with the oaks and elms, rooks and storms that fill his soundworld. (Part 2 of 2)
2022-08-2628 minCulture FileThe Culture File Weekly August 27th: Hidden Trees Slow Remix (Part 2)Float further up into the canopy with the second part of our Culture File Weekly Slow Remix, featuring woodsman, Aubrey Fennell, along with the oaks and elms, rooks and storms that fill his soundworld. (Part 2 of 2)
2022-08-2628 minCulture FileThe Culture File Weekly August 20th: Hidden Trees Slow Remix (Part 1)Float up into the canopy with of a Culture File Weekly Slow Remix, featuring woodsman, Aubrey Fennell, along with the oaks and elms, rooks and storms that fill his sound world. (Part 1 of 2)
2022-08-1928 minCulture FileThe Culture File Debate Encore: What Can Art Do For Ecology?Luke Clancy and a panel featuring ecologists Bill Jordan and Catherine Farrel, composer Karen Power and The Naturalist Bookshelf's Paddy Woodworth, discuss the places where art and ecology can usefully mix. (First broadcast 10/21)
2022-08-1228 minCulture FileThe Culture File Weekly Encore: Rafter/VengerovThe greatest living violinist and his most gifted disciple come together as Kilkenny violinist, Patrick Rafter and Siberian virtuoso, Maxim Vengerov, prepare to perform Bach's Double Concerto for violin.
2022-08-0528 minCulture FileThe Culture File Weekly July 30th: Jennifer Walshe, Iarlaith ni Fheorais, Gwen O'Sullivan, Rob McGladeJennifer Walshe preps for a flaming future in the London heat, the spirit of Octavia Butler pervades a new exhibition at Visual Carlow, Transient Ischaemic Attacks fixed in paint; and what happened when Rob McGlade put his poetry collection into the hands of David Sedaris.
2022-07-2928 minCulture FileCulture File "Likes": Rob McGladePoet and performer, Rob McGlade whose Edinburgh Fringe show this year celebrates his love of Vinegar, on some of his favs in watching, listening, reading, tasting and smelling.
2022-07-2904 minCulture FileThe Power of Vinegar | Culture FileRob McGlade's book of comic poetry celebrates, among other things, the poet's love of the stuff you get (and never get enough of) with your chips.
2022-07-2907 minCulture FilePainting From Life | Culture FileFor painter, Gwen O'Sullivan among the things art can offer is a way to understand devastating illness.
2022-07-2807 minCulture FileIarlaith ni Fheorais' Speech Sounds | Culture FileThe scifi of Otavia Butler gave the title and some inspiration to curator Iarlaith ni Fheorais' group show at Visual Carlow, Speech Sounds
2022-07-2708 minCulture FileJennifer Walshe's Things Know Things | Culture FileComposer, Jennifer Walshe experiences a (very) dry run for the apocalypse in England's 2022 heat explosion.
2022-07-2604 minCulture FileThe Culture File Weekly July 23rd: GIAF2022A special edition wandering this year's Galway International Arts Festival, taking in art from Maria del Pacheco, John Gerrard, Sean Lynch, Jack Phelan and Annex.
2022-07-2229 minCulture FileCulture File "Likes": Sean LynchArtist, publisher, and former Irish representative at the Venice Biennale, Sean Lynch on some recent pleasures in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling
2022-07-2205 minCulture FileWhat is An Apparatus? | Culture FileImprobable rituals, impossible legends and plain made up stuff in Sean Lynch's latest show at GIAF 2022.
2022-07-2108 minCulture FileGIAF's Big Stuff | Culture FileLuke Clancy tours the visual art program at Galway International Arts Festival, taking in work by John Gerard, Luke Jerram, Ana Maria Pacheco and Annex.
2022-07-2005 minCulture FileClouds of Unknowing | Culture FileTadhg O'Sullivan leaps into the unknown - and fetches up at "the year records began".
2022-07-1907 minCulture FileJennifer Walshe’s Things Know Things | Culture FileArtist and composer, Jennifer Walshe encounters a recent interview given by Google's LaMDA AI.
2022-06-2105 minCulture FileK Allado-McDowell (XXL interview) | Culture FileWriter and researcher, K Alado McDowell on writing with AI, the statistics of language, and the natures of spirits in the machine, in an extended version of our interview broadcast this week.
2022-06-1739 minCulture FileCulture File "Likes": Eva O'Conor & Hildegarde RyanMulti-hyphenated theatre makers, Eva O'Conor and Hildegarde Ryan on some recent favourites in watching, reading, listening tasting and smelling
2022-06-1704 minCulture FileThe Culture File Weekly June 18th: K Allado-McDowell, Amanda Mole, Danny McCarthyK Allado-McDowell on their AI collab novel, Amour Cringe and the possibility of sentient AI, sound artist, Danny McCarthy's new use for chamber pots, and organist, Amanda Mole gets acquainted with the organ at St Bartholomew's, Ballsbridge.
2022-06-1728 minCulture FileMole at the Console | Culture FileUS recitalist, Amanda Mole is getting to know the organ at St Bartholomew's, Ballsbridge for her dates at Pipeworks 2022.
2022-06-1708 minCulture FileUrination Once Again | Culture FileCork sound artist, Danny McCarthy's latest homage to James Joyce is a sound installation celebrating a famous potty pun...
2022-06-1606 minCulture FileK Allado-McDowell (Part 2) | Culture FileWhat is new about recent AI-generated texts, such as K Allado-McDowell's novel, Amount Cringe, created via GPT-3?
2022-06-1508 minCulture FileK Allado-McDowel | Culture FileK Allado-McDowell has been using GPT-3 as a writing partner, most recently for a novella, Amour Cringe.
2022-06-1406 minCulture FileThe Culture File Weekly June 11th: Chromesthesia, Dracula's Substack, GhostwritersHearing colours with three musicians who variously experience chromothesia, the musical occult in the form of musical ghostwriters; and Jennifer Walshe enjoys getting a regular email from Dracula.
2022-06-1029 minCulture FileCulture File "Likes": Robert O'ByrneWriter, talker and Irish Aesthete on the 'gram, Robert O'Byrne on some of his favorites in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.
2022-06-1005 minCulture FileA Profitable Way to Be An Introvert | Culture FileIn music, there are many ways of "getting the work out there" that don't involve becoming a household name...
2022-06-1008 minCulture FileThe Chromesthetes | Culture FileTara Scanlan's experience of 'hearing colours,' she discovered, is something she shares with her friend, fellow composer, Ciaran McGinn.
2022-06-0906 minCulture FileJennifer Walshe's Things Know Things | Culture FileEven the undead are on Substack now. Jennifer Walshe has been enjoying an email newsletter of Bram Stoker's epistolary novel. And the memes.
2022-06-0804 minCulture FileThe Culture File Weekly June 4th: Barbados Celtic FestivalCulture File sets sail for Barbados Celtic Festival and hears from among others, champion calypsonian, The Mighty Gabby; Mark O'Callaghan, son of To Hell or Barbados author, the late Sean O'Callaghan; and Barbados' Poet Laureate, Esther Phillips.
2022-06-0328 minCulture FileA Poet on the Island (Part 2) | Culture FileBarbados poet laureate, Esther Phillips reads and explores her new poem, My Ancestors Gifted Me Their Silence.
2022-06-0208 minCulture FileA Poet on the Island | Culture FileBarbados poet laureate, Esther Phillips on her new body of work questing for the real meanings of reparations.
2022-06-0208 minCulture FileAdding To The Archive in Barbados | Culture FileThe papers of "To Hell Or Barbados" author, Sean O'Callaghan find a home in the Barbados' Department of Archives.
2022-06-0108 minCulture FileThe Mighty Gabby | Culture FileCulture File's sojourn on the freshly-minted Republic of Barbados begins with a walk on the beach with Rihanna's favourite calypsonian, The Mighty Gabby.
2022-05-3107 minCulture FileThe Culture File Weekly May 28th: In Gardens Where We Feel SecureIn a outdoorsy edition, Robert O'Byrne on the history of the Irish garden, Paddy Woodworth on a book examining a square meter of forest, Liam Cagney on a Donegal childhood, and Mark Jenkins thinks bittersweet thoughts of home in Wales
2022-05-2728 minCulture FileCulture File "Likes": Tobi OmotesoHip Hop artist and Dublin Dance Festival Dancescape curator, Tobi Omoteso on some of the things he's been enjoying
2022-05-2707 minCulture FileA Psychedelic Childhood in Donegal | Culture FileLiam Cagney on a boyhood learning to love Orbital, The Orb and all the pomps of a Rave New 90s World.
2022-05-2705 minCulture FileIn An Irish Country Garden | Culture FileRobert "The Irish Aesthete" O'Bryne's latest project is "In Harmony with Nature" an exhibition tracing the history of the Irish Country House Gardens.
2022-05-2608 minCulture FileA Bittersweet Symphony | Culture FileFor her latest plunge into the life of a musician in turbulent times, Cliodhna Ryan talks to Welsh-born double bassist, Mark Jenkins.
2022-05-2506 minCulture FileThe Naturalist's Bookshelf: The Forest Unseen | Culture FilePaddy Woodworth's latest addition to The Naturalist's Bookshelf is David George Haskell's minutely observational 2012 volume, The Forest Unseen.
2022-05-2406 minCulture FileThe Culture File Weekly May 21th: All Dancing, Some TalkingAmala Dianor on uniting dance scenes from across West Africa, Tobi Omoteso on the past present and future of Street Dance, and digging in with the struggle to turn dance into words with Liz and Jenny Roche.
2022-05-2028 minCulture FileCulture File "Likes": Liz RocheFor Dublin Dance Festival, choreographer and Liz Roche Company co-founder, Liz Roche shares some of her favourites in watching, listening, tasting and smelling.
2022-05-2005 minCulture FileDance Into Words (DDF Part 4) | Culture FileChoreographers Lis and Jenny Roche lead fellow dance artists on a journey deep into words, written and spoken, in their Modes of Capture workshop. (Part 4 of 5)
2022-05-2006 minCulture FilePast, Present and Future of Street Dance (DDF Part 3) | Culture FileStreet dance battle kingpin and founder of Top 8 Street Dance Battle, Tobi Omotesso on the past, present and future of his art. (Part 3 of 5)
2022-05-1908 minCulture FileSiguifin (DDF Part 2) | Culture FileAmala Dianor gathered dance artists from across West Africa to create Siguifin, a contemporary dance show nourished by dance from Mali, Senegal and Burkina Faso. (Part 2 of 5)
2022-05-1807 minCulture FileJazmin Chiodi (Part 1) | Culture FileDublin Dance Festival artistic director, Jazmin Chiodi on her first steps in dance, and imagining the future through dance. (Part 1)
2022-05-1707 minCulture FileCulture File "Likes": Merlyn DriverMusician, producer and curlew collaborator, Merlyn Driver shares some of his favourites in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.
2022-05-1307 minCulture FileThe Culture File Weekly May 14th: The DAO of DIY & The Art of Climate EmergencyCork-born Lisbon-based DIY producers, Garden Collective heads into the undergrowth of crypto, NFTs and DAOs; Hildegard Ryan and Eva O'Connor seek solutions with their climate arts festival, Future Limerick; and Benoit Nicol on the trail of the world's best smells.
2022-05-1328 minCulture FileThe Scent Hunter (Redux) | Culture FileThe scent hunter behind Irish brand, The Nature of Things, Benoit Nicol on the business of special smells.
2022-05-1307 minCulture FileAfloat and Rising in Limerick | Culture FileIt's about time there was an arts festival facing up to the climate emergency, suggest Eva O’ Connor and Hildegard Ryan, co-directors of Future Limerick climate arts festival.
2022-05-1207 minCulture FileGarden Collective 3.0 | Culture FileCork-born In Lisbon-based Garden Collective are discovering what the blockchain has to offer cultural producers. (Part 2 of 2)
2022-05-1107 minCulture FileGarden Collective 3.0 (Part 1) | Culture FileIn Lisbon, Cork-born DIY cultural organisation, Garden Collective has found a welcoming home. (Part 1 of 2)
2022-05-1007 minCulture FileCulture File "Likes": Kerry GuinanKerry Guinan, the Dublin artist behind The Red Thread, shares some of her pleasures in watching, listening, reading, tasting and smelling
2022-05-0606 minCulture FileThe Culture File Weekly May 7th: Curlews, Churches and StatuesMerlyn Driver on the "simmerdim" bird sounds of his childhood home on Orkney, composer Anselm McDonnell on why all his music is religious music for him, and Colombian sculptor, Iván Argote takes a stroll through St Anne's Park in Dublin.
2022-05-0628 minCulture FileElevating Dubliners | Culture FileColombian artist, Ivan Argote's commision for St Anne's Park in Dublin, Elevation, will offer the people a plinth's-eye view of their park.
2022-05-0608 minCulture FileWhat Is Religious Music? | Culture FileBelfast composer Anselm McDonnell on the unwanted distinction between secular and non-secular music.
2022-05-0508 minCulture FileCulture File: Merlyn's CurlewsMusician and producer, Merlyn Driver gathered musicians including The Unthanks and Talvin Sigh to do a little sonic PR for the endangered Eurasian Curlew.
2022-05-0408 minCulture FileCulture File "Likes": Natalia BeylisSound artist, composer, musician and New Music Dublin artist, Natalia Beylis on some of her favourites in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling
2022-04-2905 minCulture FileThe Culture File Weekly April 30th: Deep Time and Cherry BlossomIn the thick of the New Music Dublin festival, we talk to one of the charismatic megafauna of contemporary music, John Luther Adams. Pianist, Izumi Kumura has been improvising to the soundscape of Dun Laoghaire; and Louise William encounters some traditional Japanese cherry blossom patisserie.
2022-04-2928 minCulture FileChamber Music | Culture FilePianist, Izumi Kimura flavours the NCH Chamber Series with the sounds of Dun Laoghaire, with help from sound artist, Anthony Kelly.
2022-04-2908 minCulture FileJourneys into Deep Time (Part 2) | Culture FileJohn Luther Adams' on where his environmentalism and his music meet (Part 2)
2022-04-2807 minCulture FileJourneys into Deep Time (Part 1) | Culture FileEnvironmentalist-turned-composer, John Luther Adams' latest sortie into musical landscape plunges deep into the Grand Canyon (Part 1)
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Culture FileComing up on Culture File, 6.40pm: John Luther AdamsA Brief Descent into Deep Time is a choral work by American composer, John Luther Adams having its Irish premier at this weekend's New Music Dublin festival. The work sings us downward two billions years through the Grand Canyon, layer by rocky layer.
John Luther Adams ("One of the most original musical thinkers of the new century" according to @newyorkers @AlexRoss) speaks to Culture File from his Chihuahua cabin about sound and landscape, the environment and the orchestra, and music's role in finding a new way of being human. @newmusicdublion @rtelyricfm
Photo by Cynthia Adams
2022-04-2600 minCulture FileSakuratime | Culture FileMichiko Ishimoto's Gopan Bakery is cooking up seasonal Japanese treats, such as sakura ampun and sakura mochi in Bray Co Wicklow.
2022-04-2607 minCulture FileCulture File "Likes": Andreas BorregaardAccordionist and performer for next week's New Music Dublin premier of Jennifer Walshe's PERSONHOOD, Andreas Borregaard shares a few of his favs in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.
2022-04-2507 minCulture FileThe Culture File Weekly April 23rd: Natalia Beylis, Walking In The Way, Avenue AzureThe rural soundworlds of Leitrim-based composer, Natalia Beylis; the long, disguised walks of performance artists, Pauline Cummins and Frances Mezzetti; and life beyond Ensemble Klang for Saskia Lankhoorn and Pete Harden in their "almost song" but-not-quite-pop project, Avenue Azure, which arrives in Ireland as part of New Music Dublin 2022.
2022-04-2228 minCulture FileAlmost Songs | Culture FileNew Music Dublin visitors, Saskia Lankhoorn and Pete Harden formed their duo, Avenue Azure as a place to create new music they'd never found on the page.
2022-04-2208 minCulture FileSound Farming | Culture FileLeitrim-based sound artist and composer, Natalia Beylis harvests the music of her neighbourhood, from birdsong to woodshed work and decomposing pianos.
2022-04-2107 minCulture FileRhona Clarke's Sempiternam | Culture FileRhona Clarke's retrospective CD recalls the composer's work for choirs over 30 years.
2022-04-2008 minCulture FileWalking in the Way | Culture FileArtists 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.
2022-04-2007 minCulture FileNicholas Rombes | Culture FileWriter, 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.
2022-04-0805 minCulture FileThe Culture File Weekly April 9th: Jennifer Walshe, Juanita Euka, Kerry Guinan, Nicholas RombesFrom 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.
2022-04-0828 minCulture FileThe Red Thread | Culture FileArtist Kerry Guinan's biggest project yet involves connecting Dublin and Bangalore via a set of Arduino-enabled sewing machines.
2022-04-0807 minCulture FileMabanzo | Culture FileJunita Euka's first album sees the Congo-born, Argentina-raised and British-based singer-songwriter find her voice in Lingala, French, Spanish and English.
2022-04-0707 minCulture FileThe Joy of The Pause Button | Culture FileNicholas 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.
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