They are so rare, there is something precious about blue-sky autumn days, aka grab-your-bag-and-get-out days. Don’t stop to ponder, to check that weather app or to invent an excuse: who cares if the skies cover up and it starts lashing once you’re out? By then you’ll have made it out and enjoyed a breath of air that…
I really didn’t expect a standing ovation from him, the elderly stranger to my left, who snoozed softly all the way through, waking up at regular intervals to check the time on his silver digital Seiko (on show so often, I couldn’t miss it). At the end, probably out of sheer relief, he shot up…
“For the perfect flâneur, for the passionate spectator, it is an immense joy to set up house in the heart of the multitude (…) To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet to remain hidden from…
The smell of freshly cut grass is one of the joys of life, the sound of a lawnmower perhaps not so much…but both are classic summer moments! What I love about this sound in particular is its intrinsic panning dynamic. It’s a sound that traces its own story in space. — Recorded in Dublin, Ireland Aug 2014…
‘Beyond Noise and Silence: Listening for the City’ just concluded in Dublin: a two-part event focused on ‘exploring how the city’s sound environment might be used by artists, architects, and urban designers to activate experimental architectures, urban experiences, and new forms of public space‘. It was a commendable move from Dublin City Council Arts Office to…
Annual Irish Sound, Science and Technology Convocation (ISSTC), August 28-29, 2013 Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art and Design, Ireland From the ISSTC 2013 open call: ‘Transmissions enable us to experience ideas, energy, data, sounds, events and art from distant and long ago places. In negating temporal and physical boundaries, transmissions sustain traditions between generations and…
“Place is completed through the word, through the allusive exchange of a few passwords between speakers who are conniving in private complicity.” – Marc Augé, Non-Places: An Introduction to Supermodernity _liminal State will open this Thursday 18th April at the Centre for Creative Practices (Lwr. Pembroke St., D2) and will run until April 25th. Free entry. There…
I was intrigued to visit the Science Gallery’s latest offering, Oscillator: Everything in Motion as I expected a strong connection with the musical and sonic worlds, and this was definitely the case. Curators Repetto & Hutzler did a wonderful job of incorporating interactive sound installations to render the “unseen motion, cycles and vibrations of our…
If you walked into my studio these days you’d be forgiven for thinking it had been turned into some kind of dusty repository-cum-recycling facility for discarded newspaper bits and scraps. The Irish Times, Indo, SBP & co. are slowly but surely taking over the floor. If you looked closer, you’d notice their dates range from…
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