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May 07, 2025 Jóhann Jóhannsson's Not Mass | Culture File
Conductor, teacher and former King Singer, Gabriel Crouch, on the mysteries of the late composer Jóhann Jóhannsson "not classical" "not mass" work, Drone Mass.
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10 min
May 03, 2025 Culture File Presents: The Comfort Zone
Lasagne: authentic Italian cucina, a basic microwave meal and a way of understanding language, memory, literature and reality? Derry poet and novelist, Suasannah Dickey brings the dish and its many metaphors out to play with Colm Tóibín.
51 min
April 23, 2025 The Culture File Debate: Quiet/Loud
Recorded live at New Music Dublin 2025 at the NCH in Dublin, the panel explores how creative practices engage with the quiet space of loud sound, as well as the roles of quiet/loud in the contemporary attention economy, with Paula Meehan, Siobhán Cleary, John Godfrey, and Christine Tobin.
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48 min
April 19, 2025 Culture File: Marnie Weber, Tadhg O'Sullivan, The Museum of Disgusting Food
Ghost bands and circus values, with LA artist, Marnie Weber; Tadgh O'Sullivan on art that never was; and an in-the-end surprisingly pleasant visit to Berlin's Disgusting Food Museum.
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29 min
April 05, 2025 Culture File: Rhythm of the Seasons, Stone Carving In The Bronx, Changes in the Land
Percussionist, James Larter reboots of the Four Season; the allure of ancient craft in New York; and Paddy Woodworth suggests a new old volume about New England as essential reading for today.
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29 min
March 26, 2025 The Blood of a Poet | Culture File
Veteran US cellist and improvisor, Erik Friedlander collaborates with live film score specialist, Matthew Nolan to create new music for Jean Cocteau's 1932 first venture into film.
9 min
March 22, 2025 Culture File: Politics of the Imagination, The Gee's Bend Quilters, Bombast!
Classical music and hiphop meet with a bang in Belfast composer, Anselm McDonnell's latest project; the textile stories of Gee's Bend, Alabama at a new show at IMMA; and a program of premiers of chamber music from Black and Latiné composers at next month's New Music Dublin.
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30 min
March 22, 2025 Berginald Rash | Culture File
At this year's New Music Dublin, American Irish clarinetist, Berginald Rash presents Bombast! his program of chamber music from contemporary Black and Latiné composers. He talks to Culture File about a fraunt moment for music and art in the United States, and beyond.
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26 min
March 12, 2025 Ethan Iverson | Culture File
Pianist and composer, Ethan Iverson, formerly of The Bad Plus, on working solo, standards v hits, and the music of Igor Stravinsky. He plays The Cooler, Dublin on Friday March 14th, and Triskel, Cork on Saturday 15th.
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12 min
March 08, 2025 Thurston Moore Special (Podcast Only XXXL mix) | Culture File
An extended version of our conversation with Sonic Youth co-founder and explorer at the furthermost limits of the sonic spectrum, Thurston Moore, on noise, improvisation, fascism and his new guitar suite based on cloud formations, which debuts at this year's New Music Dublin festival of contemporary music.
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1 hr 3 min

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