The Dubliners of Ancient Sicily in debut novelist, Ferdia Lennon's Glorious Exploits, set in a Magna Graecia convulsed by the Peloponnesian war; DJ Lychee's Lunar New Year dance soundtrack; and Sadhbh O’Sullivan's Bridgidian song cycle “In Cloak and Womb"

Pianist and composer, Leon Michener, aka Klavikon, shares some of his favourites in watching, listening, reading, tasting and smelling

Irish-Vietnamese producer and musician, DJ Lychee creates a soundtrack for Lunar New Year aerial dance spectacular for Dublin.

The malleable legacy of Brigid of Kildare inspires a song cycle from composer and vocalist, Sadhbh O’Sullivan.

Dubliner, Ferdia Lennon's debut novel, about an attempt to stage a play with Athenian captives on Sicily, uses a familiar brand of hiberno-English to storm the ancient world.

Hula-hooping poet and performer, Caoimhe Lavelle shares some of her favourites in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling

This time, the man v machine music magic of Klavikon, Joanna Walsh on what it means to be an amateur in the world of the gig economy, performance poet Caoimhe Lavelle on what a hula hoop adds to a poem, a tribute to master typographer, Phil Baines.

Composer Leon Michener, creator of the app (amplified prepared piano) he calls a Klavikord, points his unique instrument at the big questions of humanity, machines and the spaces in between.

Master typographer, designer, inspirational teacher, writer and walking tour guide, Prof Phil Baines has died. He was our guide, here, on the very first episode of Culture File, in which he brings us through the streets of Dublin, uncovering the casual beauty in the capital's letterscape.

The obvious, but little-explored benefits of bringing a hula hoop to poetry readings, with writer-performer Caoimhe Lavelle.

Writer, Joanna Walsh begins a new series exploring what it means to be an amateur online.

Anthropologist Veronica Strang on water beings, the slippery creatures who have been helping humans to understand their planet for millenia. Jennifer Walshe on the sincerity of ChatGTP; and into deep space in the music of jazz composer, Meilana Gillard.

Anthropologist and water-being whisperer, Veronica Strang on some of her cherished stuffs in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.

"Water beings" in cultures around the world are ready to teach us again about how to live on planet earth, suggests anthropologist, Veronica Strang (2/2)

Water Beings in cultures around the world are ready to teach us again about how to live on planet earth, suggests anthropologist, Veronica Strang (1/2)

Chasing Comets, saxophonist, Meilana Gillard's new suite for the RGB Trio, takes inspiration from the cosmos - and Nintendo and Sega game sound.

Unaccustomed as it is to public speaking, ChatGPT has been making inroads at our most important social events and moments. Jennifer Walshe wonders if we really should be surprised.

A special edition of The Culture File Weekly on filmmaker Tadhg O'Sullivan's cultural history of ignorance from Fawlty Towers to new born babies, The Cloud of Unknowing.

Another chance to hear the word "wild" hunted down by our panel: writer/artist, Lisa Fingleton; Nature File's Anja Murray; sailor/artist, Gwen Wilkinson; The Naturalist Bookshelf's Paddy Woodworth; along with chair Luke Clancy.

At the inaugural Beta digital arts festival in Dublin, writer, Joanna Walsh, artist//designer, Leon Butler; and writer/academic, Jennifer O'Meara join Luke Clancy to discuss creativity, authenticity and AI.

Recorded live at this year's Fidelio Winter Chamber Music Festival at St. Patrick's Drumcondra, our panel of Fidelio Trio pianist, Mary Dullea, and composers, Rhona Clarke and John Buckley, talk to Luke Clancy about music commissions: getting and giving.

Composer and MIDI maven, Jeff Rona shares some of his favourites in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.

The artist, Lisa Fingleton responds to the unease of our moment with a story for children and adults inspired by (among other things) a climate activist who went to work at an oil company.

The artist, Lisa Fingleton responds to the unease of our moment with a story for children and adults inspired by (among other things) a climate activist who went to work at an oil company. Check out the podcast feed for a full download of "Walter The Warmonger".

Composer and technologist, Jeff Rona on the bedroom music revolution that the arrival of MIDI sparked. (2/2)

Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) celebrated its 40th birthday this year, but the ideas behind the music making technology have millennia deep roots. (1/2)

Conductor and fiddle player Sinead Hayes deconstructs the trad session, Conor O'Reilly's CóR project eyes sustainability for choral music, and Belfast polymath and techno magician Max Cooper's experiments in 3D/AV magic.

Conductor violinist and Tangletrad inventor, Sinead Hayes shares some of her favourites in watching, listening, tasting and smelling.

Belfast producer and musician, Max Porter on finding the visual forms for his music

Choir conductor and composer, Conor O'Reilly's new venture, Cór wants to see choral music in Ireland act a bit more like the GAA.

Conductor and violinist, Sinead Hayes on "Tangletrad" - her 20 rules for creative intervention at your local seisiun (2/2)

Conductor and violinist, Sinead Hayes has a masterplan for developing musical infrastructure in the West of Ireland involving, among other things, a large number of candles (1/2)

Digging up the revolution that dare not speak its name in Ciara Hyland's documentary, Croíthe Radacacha; Sam Gandy on a new future for psychedelics; Kilkenny's Moot Tapes collective celebrates five years of DIY action; and the art of the robo-cello, as practiced in Sweden.

Documentary maker, Ciara Hyland (Croíthe Radacacha, 74 Days: The Hunger Strike of Terence MacSwiney) on a few of her favourite things.

Cybernetic gossip from Sweden, as the creator of robo-cellist, Magnhild brings news of her relationship with a post-feminist performance-artist robot called Harmony.

Sending signals and waving flags with producer Peter Lawlor and artist-illustrator, Stephen Morton and their DIY tangible record label, Moot Tapes.

Ciara Hyland's documentary "Croíthe Radacacha" tells the stories of Queer women in revolutionary Ireland.

Dr Sam Gandy on what psychedelics, such as psilocybin may offer both in clinical settings and to the environmental movement.

A brand new concert hall The Lark, with a brand new choir the IIMS Chamber Choir; talking on the concert stage with Patrick Rafter at his Marble City Music Festival, and Orit Gat on a retrospective of painter and sculptor, Nicole Eisenman at London's Whitechapel Gallery.

Music producer and IIMSCC vocalist, Hugh Clarke shares some of his tops in watching, listening, reading, tasting and smelling.

French-born, US artist, Nicole Eisenman's retrospective in London takes a sampling of 30 years of the artist's work, and in turn is sampled by Orti Gatt for her latest Voice Notes.

World-renowned Irish violinist, Patrick Rafter has created The Marble City Music Festival in his home city of Kilkenny - and The Four Seasons are at the heart of it.

In Balbriggan, choral master Jo-Michael Scheibe is in rehearsals with the IIMS Chamber Choir at The Lark concert hall. (2/2)

A visit to Balbriggan to meet the people behind Irish Institute of Music and Song and its associated brand new 400 seat concert hall, The Lark. (1/2)

Composer, Ailis Ni Rhiann meets up with a contrabass flute in search of some deep inspiration; a dazzling performance of Eriks Eshevald's hymn to the aurora borealis, Rivers of Light; and John Francis Flynn on thwarting any expectations the world has about a trad musician.

A favourite voice on some of her favourite things, as vocalist and composer, Caroline Shaw marks selects some watching, listening, reading, tasting and smelling

Irish folk renaissance man, John Francis Flynn on picking up an electric guitar for the first time and other stirrings in the force of contemporary trad.

Maynooth University Chamber Choir performing Rivers of Light, a choral hymn to aurora borealis from Latvian composer, Eriks Ešenvalds.

Michael Dawson and Maynooth University Chamber Choir come into the studio for a live Culture File celebrating Rivers of Light, a choral hymn to aurora borealis from Latvian composer, Eriks Ešenvalds.

Sharon Carty and Gavan Ring performing Et Misericordia from Bach's Magnificat with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra live in Studio 1 in Donnybrook for the Classic Drive Winter Special.

Gavan Ring performs 'Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön', an aria from The Magic Flute by Mozart, with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra as part of the Classic Drive Winter Special live from Studio 1.

Sharon Carty joins Lorcan Murray for the Winter Special of Classic Drive live from Studio 1 in Donnybrook. Sharon performs Siébel's Aria from Gounod's Faust with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra.

Media theorist, Liam Cole Young, on the darkest kind of list and listmakers, as well as the explosive effect on intellectual life of one short list created by the Argentine writer, Jorge Luis Borges. (RPT)

A musical playdate in Dublin as composer Ailís Ní Ríain and flautist Lina Andonovska meetup to see what music they, along with a brand new contrabass flute, might make.

Recorded live at Dublin Book Festival, writer and artist, Lisa Fingleton, Nature File's Anja Murray, sailor and artist, Gwen Wilkinson, along with The Naturalist Bookshelf's Paddy Woodworth, join Luke Clancy to investigate the secret life of the word "wild".

Composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist and Japanophile, Peter Broderick shares a few of his favourite things in watching, listening, reading, tasting and smelling.

Previewing our Culture File Debate, Paddy Woodworth explores the word wild, and its place in the book trade and the future of the planet.

Soprano, cellist, improvisor, composer and writer, Héloïse Werner on finding a place in the musical world when you’re a cello-playing soprano who likes to do comedy. (2/2)

Soprano, cellist, impovisor, composer and writer, Héloïse Werner on her childhood in the choral hothouse of France's Maîtrise de Radio France’, and ending up on the festival comedy stage.

Birdcast: A summer running route brings an encounter with birds and wires for Jennifer Walsh, recorded in her latest postcard from the technological edge.

Galway's Tulca visual art festival kicks off; earthy Limerick improvisers, Peist collaborate with dancer, Aiobhinn O’Dea; Dan Colley's Lost Lear mashes up puppets, people and Shakespear to explore dementia; and Paddy Woodworth brings his latest suggestion for the Naturalist's Bookshelf.

Harpist, early music specialist, and Alice Coltrane admirer, Brenda Molloy shares some of her favourite things in watching, listening, reading, tasting and smelling.

Another chance to hear creator, Dan Colley on Lost Lear, his puppets 'n' people show about using Shakespeare in the care of a former actor with dementia, which is now on a national tour.

Light Moves Festival welcomes a wriggly collaboration between dance artist, Aiobhinn O’Dea and Limerick sonic improvisers, Péist.

Paddy Woodworth's latest choice for slipping on to our shelf of ideal books of nature writing is Diary of a Left-Handed Bird Watcher, a 1996 volume by Californian writer, Leonard Nathan

Iarlaith Ní Fheorais, curator of Tulca, Galway's festival of visual arts, on the Tulca's focus on experiences of disability, including that of J.J. Beegan, a Ballinasloe-born artist and sculptor, who spent most of his life as a patient in an English asylum.

Iarlaith Ní Fheorais, curator of this year's TULCA visual arts festival in Galway, shares a few of her favourite things for watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.

Artists, curators, archivists, politicians, lawyers and activists gathered at the Reparations 2023 conference in London recently to explore the shapes reparations for the Afrikan slave trade might take. Culture File presents a special report from the event from Louise Williams.

In her latest report from the recent Conference on Afrikan Reparations in London, Louise Williams follows discussions on what reparations might mean for British museums. (3/3)

Lisa Anderson, of the Black Cultural Archives, on the work of collecting, preserving and celebrating the histories of people of African and Caribbean descent. (2/3)

Actor, playwright and director, Kwame Kwei-Armah was one of those addressing a conference in London on aspects of Reparations from cultural redress to environmental justice.

From his secret cave, Irish musical kingpin, Dónal Lunny shares some of his favourites in watching, listening, reading, tasting and smelling.

A supersession in Dundalk, as trad supergroup led by Zoë Conway, Dónal Lunny and friends take on Terry Riley's Minimalist touchstone, In C

Another chance to hear Forensic Architecture-founder, Eyal Weitzman on the art group/research agency's work decoding violent incidents around the world.

Culture File's regular tech soothsayer, Prof Aisling Kelliher on a new product that intends to replace your very old fashioned handheld mobile device. Plus: Meta's celeb chatbots.

Composer and musician, Peter Broderick has found himself uncannily connected with the musics of the late American music maker, Arthur Russell. (part 2 of 2)

For Lá na Cruite | National Harp day, poet Moya Cannon shares not her Culture File Likes, but what she imagines of the savour of the Irish Harp, Edward Bunting might click on.

Join Luke Clancy for a compilation of highlights and extras from his weekday reports on Lorcan Murray's Classic Drive, a journey into creativity in the contemporary world

Irish based composer and musician, Peter Broderick has found himself uncannily connected with the musics of the late American music maker, Arthur Russell. (part 1 of 2)

Wexford Festival Opera's 2023 treats include a Wexford-ated take on Puccini's romp, Gianni Schicchi performed with local volunteers and future stars from Wexford Opera Factory.

With films such All The People In The Place, on the 90s rave scene, artist, Jeremy Deller has spent a career turning sub-cultures into culture.

Fat Bear Week: Even if the change of seasons are quite manifesting as they should, Jennifer Walshe takes consolation in some thicc bears.

Sigurrós and Inga of Fischersund share some of the favourite things in watching, listening, reading, tasting and smelling

This week, Orit Gat takes in Marina Abramovic, or the performers who would be Marina Abramovic at a retrospective in London; Roisin Stack's Dublin Theatre Festival explores aloneness; a new bass clarinet arrives at the RTÉ Concert Orchestra; and the cosmic jazz of Alice Coltrane via the harp of traditional musician, Brenda Malloy.

Clarinetist, Macdara Ó Seireadáin introduces the brand new bundle of bass currently getting played in with the RTÉCO: a bass clarinet.

Róisín Stack's one woman show cum lecture thinks about the women's "alone time" with the help of the writings of Mary Oliver, Silvia Plath and others.

Avant garde quartet, Zeropunkt beam harpist Brenda Molloy onboard for an exploration of the out-of-this-world sounds of Alice Coltrane.

For her latest voice notes Orit Gat has been to see and feel a retrospective of the performance artist, Marina Abramovic at the Royal Academy of Art in London.

Improviser and composer, Panos Ghikas on a few of his favorite things in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling...

A naggin of the spirit of the times, from the philosophy of making your own clothes to the music of datacenters, with a new exhibition space for the Bloomsbury gang's base at Charleston, the alluring folk horror of artist, Jonathan Baldock, and a touring show on invisible worlds from Jennifer Walshe.

Writer and curator, Charlie Porter, on how the ideas of the Bloomsbury group lead him to making -- and loving -- his own clothes.

The Bloomsbury group's famous Sussex getaway, Charleston, launches its new sister art space with a look at the fashion philosophy of Virginia Woolf and others

Composer, Jennifer Walshe, along with Elizabeth Hilliard, Nick Roth and Panos Ghakos, plus students from schools around Ireland, collaborate on a new work, Oscailt.

Singer-songwriter, surfer and sometime Co Clare resident, Amelia Baker on some of her favourites in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.

A special program from this year's End of The Road Festival, with Bafta-award winning director and festival film curator, Mark Jenkin, academic and folk singer, Angeline Morrison - plus a little help choosing your new favourite band from Manchester design duo, Mikesian Studios.

Academic, musician and songwriter, Angeline Morrission is fortifying UK folk music by creating the missing folk songs of the Black British experience.

The second part of a convo with Mark Jenkin, director of "Cornish Folk Horror" film Enys Men, on making Cornish films and music.

Director Mark Jenkins on the real and imaginary biographies of a lobster that acted in his Bafta award-winning film, Bait.

Mark Jenkin, director of Bafta winning fishing tale, Bait, on creating a live soundtrack to his "Cornish Folk Horror" Enys Main.

Who Wants to Write an Email? is an AI-hype sniff test in the form of an interactive comedy quiz show about spotting AI-created text.

Composer and clarinetist manqué, Shaun Davey on some his favourites in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.

Luke Clancy introduces the latest collection of culture stories: from a "caoineadh of ecological and climate grief" sung on a lake in Cavan, to the siblings behind Icelandic music, art and scent brand, Fischersund and the past present and future of the tokens sometimes known as money.

"A caoineadh of ecological and climate grief" is what artist, AlanJames Burns and collaborators Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan and NYAH, call their new collaborative performance-cum-ritual on a Co. Cavan lake.

Sigurrós and Inga of Fischersund on the scentscape of Iceland, including that unforgettable whale

The second part of our conversation with Rachel O' Dwyer, author of Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform, on platform payments and programmed money. (2/2)

Rachel O'Dwyer's new book, Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform, sees the Irish writer meeting money in all its emergent forms.

Kalaf Epalanga on his debut novel and the story of kuduro, with sounds from Tony Amado, Os Lambas, Carl Craig and Epalanga's old band, Buraka Som Sistema. (Remix)

Another chance to hear our special edition from Vienna, featuring: art at the re-modelled Austrian Parliament building; artist duo, Muntean/Rosenbloom; crowdsourcing modular opera; and a cross-cast production of The Threepenny Opera.

In a podcast-only program, we return to The National Botanical Gardens, Kilmacurragh. Co Wicklow for the Q&A session from this month's Culture File Debate on the pasts, presents and futures of gardens, with Paddy Woodworth, Mary Reynolds, Seamus O'Brien, Colin Stafford-Johnson.

The pasts, presents and futures of gardens are under discussion, as Paddy Woodworth shepherds a panel of Mary Reynolds, Seamus O'Brien and Colin Stafford-Johnson in discussing the possibilities and responsibilities in a time of crisis. Recorded at The National Botanical Gardens, Kilmacurragh. Co Wicklow.

Choreographer and artist behind Garden as Gallery, Joan Davis shares some of her favourites in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.

Paddy Woodworth's latest choice for addition to our shelf of ideal nature books, is a 2018 collaboration between poet Mark Roper and photographer Paddy Dwan, Comeragh: Mountain, Coum, River, Rumour.

Learn to dance like the leaves do, is one of the prospects of artist and choreographer, Joan Davis latest project in her garden in Co Wicklow,

On Saturday, the Culture File Debate comes from the National Botanic Gardens at Kilmacurragh in Co Wicklow, where our panel discusses the past, present and future of gardens. Here's a taste of the convo.

AI as Companion Species: to conclude her exploration of the things AI is a little bit like, Jennifer Walshe thinks imagine AI as critters with which we might have to learn to live.

Digital Humanities specialist at TCD's Long Room Hub, Jennifer Edmond shares some of her favourites in watching, listening, reading, tasting and smelling.

Absurdist cricket with Pinter and Beckett at the crease in Shomit Dutta's play, Stumped at Bewley's Café Theatre; media images of the Women's World Cup 23 decoded by Orit Gat; new exhibitions at Galway International Festival from Ruby Wallis, and in Turin, exploring the fugitive art of Lee Lozano.

Artist Ruby Wallis' show at Galway Arts Centre, Whistling in the Dark, looks at superstitions and taboos around women whistling.

What can we tell about the future of Women's Football from the framing of this year's Women's World Cup, with football critic and art writer, Orit Gat?

An extended version of our conversation with football critic and art writer, Orit Gat, on everything we can tell about the future of Women's Football from the framing of this year's Women's World Cup.

Orit Gat returns with some voice notes on the "scandalous feminism" of 1960s artist Lee Lozano, taken at the current Lozano exhibition, Strike, at Pinacoteca Agnelli, Turin.

Nobel-prizewinning fielding in Shomit Dutta's new play, Stumped, which imagines Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter playing cricket together.

Vocalist and opera maker, Loré Lixenberg shares some of her favourites in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.

Kalaf Epalanga's debut novel tells the story of a network of people caught up in immigration arrest, but also the story of kuduro music. Plus Jennifer Walshe's latest Things Know Things, on how AI resembles Conceptual Art

Irish Times music critic, Michael Dervan, helps us assess classical music offerings from Qobuz, Spotify and Naxos, as well as the utility of "spatialized" audio.

Buraka Som Sistema MC, Kalaf Epalanga, on his beat-powered debut novel, Whites Can Dance Too, and the story of Kuduro. (2/2)

Culture File goes pitchside for some fine art soccer from Man U midfield legend, Juan Matta, locates Dublin sites associated with the slave trade, visits a sex-postive bakery, and take a headlong dive into the jungle of classical music streaming services.

Actor Gabriel Adewusi shares some of his favourites in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.

The debut novel from Buraka Som Sistema star, Kalaf Epalanga, is part of the author's mission to tell the world about the genre of electronic dance music called, Kuduro.

AI is Conceptual Art: In the latest of her essays attempting to uncover things that might help us to think through AI, Jennifer Walshe settles upon Conceptual Art.

Poor tagging and a patchy search has been discouraging for anyone trying to enjoy classical music from the streaming services. Does the launch of Apple Classical mean all that is changing?

Fooderia, on Dublin's Capel Street, is Ireland's first sex-positive bakery, offering a range of choco-caramel and cream slathered treats, all modelled on human genitalia.

Culture File's Senior Artball Correspondent, Orit Gat reports from Manchester International Festival, where this year artist, Tino Seghal and former Manchester United and Spain midfielder, Juan Mata, team up for a football-into-art performance work.

Richard Carson leads a walking tour in the region of Lower Gardiner St. area which surfaces traces of the slave trade in the fabric of Dublin.

Composer and University of California professor of composition, João Pedro Oliveira on a few of his favourites in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.

Audio excursions into the realms of both slime mould with Jennifer Walshe, and the dung beetle with Deirdre O'Mahony, as well as for a telling dip in the swimming pools of Dublin with Chinedum Muotto.

Artist, Deirdre O'Mahony on creating the art of Irish rural realities. (part 2 of 2)

Artist, Deirdre O'Mahony on creating the art of Irish rural realities. (part 1 of 2)

Dublin-based artist, Chinedum Muotto uses video, sound and sculpture to explore swimming stories and experiences of the African diaspora in Dublin and Barbados.

AI is Gunk Mould: Jennifer Walshe adds slime/gunk mould to her catalogue of RL things which AI might resemble.

English organist, Bach specialist and star of this week's Pipeworks festival, David Goode on some of his favourites in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.

Composer, Joao Pedro Oliveira projects some music for the eyes; Pipeworks festival star, David Goode on the power and glory of his chosen instrument; experimental vocalist, Lore Lixenberg teams up with composer, Karen Power and Tadhg O'Sullivan has been stealing work from the AI for his latest Cloud of Unknowing.

Californian based Portuguese composer, Joao Pedro Oliveira, explores how seeing and hearing are not always as distinct as we'd like to imagine.

Mezzo-soprano, Lore Lixenberg and composer, Karen Power team up with Amazonian birds and Namib Desert critters for a sonic adventure in Language, Land, Sea.

In his latest cloud, Tadhg O'Sullivan contemplates the will to datafy and the myths of Palo Alto.

English organ star, David Goode on power, faith and the particular life of the organist.

This week, composer Caroline Shaw on the joys of Tiktok and ABBA; Jennifer Walshe's Things Know Things explores the relationship between AI and EVP; the progressive politics of witches celebrated in Junk Ensemble's Ritual, and Aisling Kelliher on what the movies have lead us to expect from Apple's Visio Pro headset.

Balbriggan teacher and novelist, Kevin Curran shares some of his recent favourites in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.

Prof Aisling Kelliher of USC School of Cinematic Arts on Apple's Vision Pro and the cinematheque of dystopian dataspaces, in an extended version.

Prof Aisling Kelliher of USC School of Cinematic Arts on Apple's Vision Pro and the cinematheque of dystopian dataspaces.

Finding love on TikTok and other adventures in the life of Pulitzer and Grammy winning composer, violist and vocalist, Caroline Shaw.

The dissident potential of witches is under inspection in Junk Ensemble's latest, a live performance installation created with a collaborative team that includes Jesse Jones, Aideen Barry and Planningtorock.

AI is EVP: In the latest of her attempts to uncover all the things that AI is like, Jennifer Walshe strikes upon the uncanny business of Electronic Voice Phenomenon.

Irish composer, Emma O'Halloran on some of her favourite things in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling

Vocalist and songwriter, Aoife O'Donovan on the tools for telling stories in song; teenage voices of Balbriggan filtered through the writing of Kevin Curran in a new novel about life in Ireland's most diverse town, and Orit Gat on the baked art of Uri Aran in his exhibition, Take This Dog for Example.

Art writer, Orit Gat sends some voice notes from amongst the chocolate chip cookies and letter shaped bread of artist, Uri Aran's Dublin exhibition, Take This Dog For Example.

Writer Kevin Curran and actor, Gabriel Adewusi, on bringing stories of teenage life in Ireland's youngest and most diverse town to life for the audiobook version of Curran's latest novel, Youth.

American folk vocalist, songwriter, and sometime Yo-Yo Ma collaborator, Aoife O'Donovan brings it all back home to Clonakilty

Jennifer Walshe on possibly the best way to pronounce AI; composer Dave Flynn on the sounds that fill the air of Aotearoa/New Zealand, and Prof Jennifer Edmond on the benefits of having machines read novels for us - at least some of the time.

Writer and historian and author of a new study of the long history of Palo Alto, Malcolm Harris shares some of his favorites in watching, listening, reading, tasting and smelling

Prof Jennifer Edmond, of Trinity Center for Digital Humanities, on what we gain when we engage machines to read novels. (2/2)

TCD's Prof Jennifer Edmond's approach into literature involves, among other things, using data analytics to explore vast collections of novels.

Irish composer Dave Flynn falls under the spell the Tuis and the Kakapo and other birds that fill the air of Aotearoa/New Zealand with unique sound.

AI is "A.I." Jennifer Walshe on the stories we can't stop telling ourselves about AI.

Palo Alto became a centre of technology while horses were still providing much of the world's horsepower. But the story of this San Francisco suburb and its approach to the people and resources offers a useful way of understanding the contemporary world, according to historian Malcolm Harris' new book.

The musician and composer behind Ordnance Survey, Neil O'Connor on some of his favourites in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling

Malcolm Harris' epic new history of Palo Alto unpicks some of the stories Silicon Valley likes to tell about itself. Plus this time, the rise of former Stanford Philosophy grad and current ultra-right billionaire, Peter Thiel. (3/3)

Malcolm Harris continues the story of Palo Alto, home to eugenics-inspired Stanford university, which grew into the engine of Silicon Valley. (2/3)

Historian Malcolm Harris on his new book on the San Francisco suburb that gave the world the "Palo Alto System". (1/3)

Paddy Woodworth's imaginary shelf of the world's best nature writing adds a slim volume (or three) of poetry by Seamus Heaney.

A spectral reimagining of the music of Seán Ó Riada, Marco D'Agostin's tribute to the late English dance artist, Nigel Charnok, a visit to "the longest stage in the world" and Jennifer Walshe on all the many ways that AI is like an energy drink.

Choreographer, dancer and former cross country skier, Marco D'Agostin on some of his favourites in watching, listening, reading, tasting and smelling.

The GrünflächenUnterhaltung is a yearly event held in the German city of Münster creating "the longest stage in the world" with four kilometers of musicians performing on a Saturday afternoon in May.

The musical territory of Seán Ó Riada reimagined by Ordnance Survey, the current moniker of Irish composer and musician, Neil O'Connor.

The dance philosophy of late British choreographer, Nigel Charnok is honoured in a show from one-time pupil, Marco D’Agostin.

AI Is An Energy Drink: Jennifer Walshe on how generative AI has much in common with your favourite can of caffeinated pop.

Composer and creator of the NCH's new sound installation in Stephen's Green, Ellen Reid on a few of her favourites in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.

Musician and theorist, DeForrest Brown on The Otolith Group, the origins of Detroit techno and his Make Techno Black Again campaign; Susan Stenger on the sound of Connemara granite, and Berlin cellist, Anne Müller on her great escape from the orchestra.

DeForrest Brown on the music and the underwater mythos of Detroit techno duo, Drexciya. (2/2)

American writer and musician, DeForrest Brown is on a mission to rewire ideas of what Techno really is -- where it came from and what it's for.

Some reasons not to join an orchestra, and other things cellist and composer, Anne Müller learned on the way to creating her own tech-augmented cello sound.

Flautist, composer, sound artist, sometime Nick Cave bassist, Susan Stenger on finding the musical form of Tim Robinson's Connemara.

Cellist, composer and Erased Tape-staple, Anne Müller on a few of her favourite things, from the music of Ben Lukas Boysen to her partner's homemade bread.

...and what is it they say? Luke Clancy and a panel featuring contemporary artist/sean-nós singer, Ceara Conway; Durham University Professor of Music Cognition, Tuomas Eerola; and music journalist, Molly Cantwell discuss the space we make for sad songs, and accompanying tears.

An extended interview with contemporary dance innovator and voguing aficionado, Trajal Harrell; composer, Ellen Reid on adding a headphones soundtrack to Stephen's Green in Dublin; and Jennifer Walshe on AI music as fan fiction.

American composer, Ellen Reid's globe-spanning, GPS-based headphones-music project arrives in Dublin's Stephen's Green.

Everything from Keith Jarret's piano improvisations to the queer subculture of voguing provide inspiration for dancer and choreographer, Trajal Harrell.

Music As Fan Fiction: Jennifer Walshe on how generative AI is reshaping how we understand music.

Sound excursions from the bogs of Monaghan with artist Siobhan McDonald, a cellar in Brno with "imaginary folk" band Širom, and a symposium for Tim Robinson in Kylemore Abbey, Connemara; plus Orit Gat on the scent of freshly cut grass and other alarm calls.

Some favourites in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling from musician and filmmaker, Dónal O'Connor.

A childhood incident in the bogs of Monaghan form part of the inspiration for artist, Siobhan McDonald's new body of work at The Model, Sligo.

Slovenian trio, Širom use strictly acoustic, often home-made instruments to create a world of sound that is entirely their own.

Landscape scholar, Finola O'Kane on the vast, yet small distances between pineapples and potatoes, and other quirks of Connemara cartography.

In the final part of her series of reflections on scent and memory, writer Orit Gat pursues the reasons to think and write about scent. (5/5)

Twenty years of thinking through art gathered in Sarah Pierce's show, Scene of the Myth at IMMA; Tadhg O'Sullivan's Cloud of Unknowing settles on the peak of double empathy; and Robert Curgenven builds a "Pavilion of Air" in Merrion Square, Dublin.

Joe Greene of Belfast cosmic popsters, Documenta on some of his favourite stuff for watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.

Robert Curgenven takes a walk through Merrion Square, Dublin, where the latest instance of his ambient/ambulatory sound work, Pavilion of Air is currently floating.

What is an exhibition supposed to be, and other questions from Scene of the Myth, a survey of 20 years of work in forms from archives to performance by artist, Sarah Pierce.