Do Bugs Need a Glow-Up? | The Culture File Debate
Luke Clancy and panel make the case for loving some teeming critters of the invertebrate kingdom. Advocating for their favourites are: Rache...
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The Musical Universe of Daisy Press | CFDS
Growing up on tour with Neil Diamond gave Daisy Press a unique outlook on the magic and mysteries of music, and started a journey that leads...
The Future Sound of James Holden | Culture File
1990s teenage trance prodigy and superstar DJ, James Holden on lighting out for the territories of modular synthesizers, spiritual jazz, Mor...
Culture File Digital Single: Comfort Zone Pick of The Week
Colm Tóibín suggests getting down to zero with Shostakovich's last string quartet; Poet, Karen Solie points out Nathalie Léger's 2012 book,...
Abbas Zahedi's Fast Moving Air, Post-Appalachian, Inishturk
In Dublin, an armoury of sonic devices are improvised and repurposed by Abbas Zahedi, including a commercial sonic weapon called an LRAD, wh...
The Culture File Debate: The Shortwave Orchestra
The Shortwave Orchestra is a collection of experimental musicians who came together to play for the first time in Dublin in April. Following...
Culture File Digital Single: Pick of The Week
The Comfort Zone's Colm Tóibín suggests reading a new literary biography by Nicholas Boggs, Baldwin: Alove Story; artist Harold Offed thinks...
Voice Memos From The Real World | Culture File Digital Single
Y'know, Cecil Taylor is way easier to enjoy if you slow it right down, and other insights from composer, musician, and .25 speed YouTube cli...
Cerys Hafana, Louis Haugh and 100 Caterpillars | Culture File
Are you coming for an echtra, or ancient Irish outing to the otherworld, with artist Louis Haugh? Paddy Woodworth is waiting within, the gre...
Viet and Nam, Connie Converse, Fin Family Moomins | Culture File Digital Single
Why you need to see Truong Minh Quy's film, Viet and Nam, listen to Connie Converse's album, How Sad, How Lonely and read Tove Jansson's Fin...
Thierry Tidrow | Culture File Digital Single
Canadian composer, Thierry Tidrow who features in this year's New Music Dublin festival on the strange history of Claude Vivier, the art of...
Norma Winstone, Living On The Wind | Culture File
Legendary jazz vocalist Norma Winstone on learning to understand the voice as an instrument, the genius of bandmate, Kenny Wheeler, and how...
Ms Hartman's Neighbourhood | Culture File Digital Single
Composer, improvisor and evangelist for the power of children's music, Ríona Sally Hartman leads a tour of her musical world.
Culture File Digital Single: What's Up With Tracey?
If you enjoyed Orit Gat's essay on Tracey Emin's sort-of-retrospective at Tate Modern (which you can hear in the current edition of Culture...
Tracey at The Tate, Make2026, Patrick O'Laoghaire
Orit Gat takes in the new Tate Modern show from former YBA, now officially OBA, Tracey Emin; Rachel Andrews is at Cork's Make2026, with Prof...
Culture File Digital Single: Pick of The Week
The Comfort Zone's Colm Tóibín suggests spending (quite a few) minutes with The Met's latest production of Tristran und Isolde (screening in...
A Tetrapod Makes Land: Culture File Digital Single
Events on Valentia Island around 360 million years ago set in motion an exhibition from artist Bryony Dunne, currently at the Irish Architec...
The Culture File Debate: What Is A Sound?
Sound artist and composer Tarek Atoui, musician and recordist Natalia Beylis, and Oxn drummer, Eleanor Myler probe the act of making a sound...
Crows and Corsets
Rion Hanora O'Donovan on the place of 'bad' graffiti in her clothes designs; Dermot Rogers puts some sunlight on the legacy of jazz guitaris...
An Afternoon at the Opera XXXL Edition
After a troubled Northern Irish childhood, Vivien Hewitt found a new life in Italy, and in opera. The director and designer takes a seat in...