Friday, December 30, 2016

A Portrait of the Artist at 100

On the anniversary of its publication, Julian Gough essays his "complicated" relationship with Joyce's novel.

Friday, December 23, 2016

Culture File: The Sex Pistols and Ramadan

Spanish Ambassador, José María Rodríguez-Coso on his early DJ career and Christmas in Barcelona

Thursday, December 22, 2016

Culture File: The True Meaning of Czechxmas

Czech Ambassador, Hana Mottlova on the sometimes frightening seasonal traditions of Mitteleuropa

Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Culture File: Christmas in Mexico City

It's the season of piñatas and posados for the almost brand new Mexican Ambassador to Ireland, Miguel Malfavon

Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Culture File: Christmas and St Louis

An Irish journey comes to an end for Barack Obama’s appointment as US Ambassador to Ireland, Kevin O Malley.

Monday, December 19, 2016

Culture File: HR and the Revolution

Translator and diplomat, Michael Žantovský, on choosing the right friends after the Velvet Revolution

The Culture File Weekly (No 101, Michael Žantovský, Irish Noggins, Balsamic History, Rosc)

This weekly, we visit the epicentre of the Velvet Revolution with Michael Žantovský, Director of Václav Havel Library in Prague, 3d x-ray machine on some old Irish drinking vessels, sample an array of sticky black dots in the company of a man from Modena, and return to simpler times to the first ROSC art biennale in 1967

Friday, December 16, 2016

Culture File: When Havel Met Woody

Translator and diplomat, Michael Žantovský, on introducing his boss to Woody Allen, and other diplomatic chores

Thursday, December 15, 2016

Culture File: Reading Rosc

In the early 1960s, architect Michael Scott cooked up an innovative, blockbuster art show for Ireland: Rosc

Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Culture File: The Other Black Stuff

Michele Sartori, of balsamic vinegar house of Acetaia Giusti in Modena, on what makes the best best

Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Culture File: Care for a Noggin?

Is your noggin cooper-made or one of the woven ones? Furniture historian Claudia Kinmonth on a little wooden gem

Monday, December 12, 2016

The Culture File Weekly No 100 (Dr Hook, Merce Cunningham and Vera Klute)

This weekly dancer, Cheryl Therrien on why chance can indeed be a fine thing, particularly in the choreography of Merce Cunningham, artist Vera Klute explains why her portraits of some of Ireland's women scientists and academics are overdue job and Dennis Locorriere, lead singer of 70s hitmakers Dr Hook, shares his origin story

Culture File: The Dr Hook Story (Part 2)

Dennis Locorriere continues the story of his life with the unstoppable 70s hit machine

Thursday, December 8, 2016

Culture File: The Dr Hook Story (Part 1)

Dennis Locorriere, voice of songs like Sylvia's Mother & Ballad of Lucy Jordan, on an uncategorisable act

Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Culture File: Recreating Merce

US choreographer, Merce Cunningham's 1958 Night Wanderings, remade in 2016 Dublin by Cheryl Therrien & John Scott

Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Culture File: Sheila, Françoise, Phyllis and Eleanor arrive at RIA

After 230 years, the first Irish woman academics are being honoured with portraits at the Royal Irish Academy.

Monday, December 5, 2016

Culture File: Luciana Bianchi's Little Changes (FOTE 2016)

When it comes to the ethics of food, has there been too much talk and too little real action?

The Culture File Weekly No 99 (Simon Reynolds, Angélique Dass and Vickey Curtis)

This weekly, music historian Simon Reynold's on what David Bowie and Donald Trump have in common, photographer and activist, Angélique Dass, on her global project matching human skin colours to the Pantone® system, and spoken word artist, Vickey Curtis stages a "sorry" intervention.

Friday, December 2, 2016

Culture File: The Pantone® of People

Angélica Dass' global photo project, Humanae, matches people's real skin tones to their Pantone equivalent.

Thursday, December 1, 2016

Culture FIle: We're All Glam Now

Author, Simon Reynolds, on the roots and fruits of Glam, from Slade and Eno, to Gaga and The Weeknd.

Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Culture File: Who cares about Glam now?

Simon Reynolds' Shock and Awe, explores glitter 'n' feather boas, but also crowds, charisma & the rise of Trump

Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Culture File: Vickey Curtis Isn't Sorry

For her latest show, Vickey Curtis, invites audiences to her Dublin city centre home for a "sorry" intervention

Monday, November 28, 2016

Culture File: Trevor Moran whips up Tennessee-style かき氷

Dublin-born Nashville chef, Trevor Moran, on the elevated version of shaved ice the Japanese call ???.

Wednesday, November 23, 2016

#WakingAnneKarenina

"People are always waiting for the next white great male prophet," says Marina Carr. "...a woman will never be that." More at 6.05pm @LyricLorcan @RTElyricfm #wakingthefeminists

Culture File: Cool In The Pool (Part 2/2)

In the 1960s, the Aboriginal peoples' struggle for civil rights reached the segregated Australian swimming pool

Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Culture File: Cool In The Pool

Australia architect, Amelia Holiday, on BBQs, bodies and Australia's special relationship with its swimming places

Monday, November 21, 2016

The Black Panther Cookbook

The Black Panthers' pre-school breakfast program and other revolutionary surprises with chef/activist, Saqib Keval, of the People's Kitchen Collective.

The Culture File Weekly No 97 (Josef Sudek, Daoirí Farrell, Aisling Kelliher on Venmo and Steve Forbert)

This weekly we get authentic as we spend some time in Claddagh records with our communion money and Daoirí Farrell; enter a wicklow cottage in search of Czech photographer, Josef Sudek, beam into Virginia Tech to discuss Venmo and splitting the bill 21st century style, while Steve Forbert makes a good case for life on the road

Friday, November 18, 2016

Culture File: The Real Josef Sudek

John Hutchinson on the unfashionable authenticity of Prague photographer, Josef Sudek

Culture File Xtra: Saqib Keval's recipe for Scrambled Tofu

Activist and chef, Saqib Keval's recipe for Scrambled Tofu just like the serve it at the People's Food Collective in Oakland, Calif.

Thursday, November 17, 2016

Culture File: Daoirí Farrell

Childhood visits to the Claddagh Records with his communion money set Daoirí Farrell on his musical road

Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Culture File: Prof Aisling Kelliher Venmos her dues

Already an Urban Dictionary verb, Venmo is the bill sharing app that might just replace traditional banking

Monday, November 14, 2016

The Culture File Weekly No. 96 (The Burglar's Guide to the City, documentary painting, #FreakFood)

This weekly: unpicking the secrets of like-worthy #FreakFood, a walk 'n' talk with the evil genius behind The Burglar's Guide to the City, and painting a documentary of Waterford to rival a 1735 record of the city

Culture File: The Burglar's Guide to the City (Part 2)

If there is one creature that knows the architecture of the city even better than a burglar, it's the rat. (2/2)

Friday, November 11, 2016

Culture File: The Burglar's Guide to the City (part 2)

If there is one creature who knows the architecture of the city even better than a burglar, it's the rat. (2/2)

Thursday, November 10, 2016

Culture File: The Burglar's Guide to the City

Who really knows a building best? The developer? The architect? The occupier? None of the above says Geoff Manaugh

Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Culture File: #FreakFood

When snapping a dish is an inevitable part of a restaurant meal, the chef's job is as much about memes as menus.

Tuesday, November 8, 2016

Culture File: Blaise Smith surveys Waterford

The application of pencil to paper and other artworld quiddities with artist-pianist, Blaise Smith

Monday, November 7, 2016

Culture File: Andean foraging with Virgilio Martínez (FOTE 2016)

The brand new, centuries old ingredients one Peruvian chef is bringing from the Andes into the kitchen

The Culture File Weekly No. 95 (Andean treats, Czech Black Light Theatre, Marina Carr's Wicklow, Process Philosophy)

This weekly, French ballet dancer turned "black light" star, Thomas Bettinelli, Laura Marks on the bold promises of Process philosophy, Virgilio Martínez's new world of Andean food and the drowned valley in Marina Carr's Mary Gordon

Friday, November 4, 2016

Culture File: Process Philosophy for Dummies

Prof Laura Marks there on Process Philosophy and what it means to film, dance and washing the dishes

Thursday, November 3, 2016

Culture File: The Drowned World of Marina Carr

300 voices from community choirs around Wicklow bring the playwright's oratorio, Mary Gordon to the concert hall

Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Culture File: In Prague, and in the dark

Thomas Bettinelli trained in ballet at home in France, but on a visit to Prague discovered black light theatre

Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Culture File: Tina Gorjanc's speculative design project, Pure Human

Would you let me use your DNA to create laboratory grown skin? Could you stop me?

The Culture File Weekly No. 94 (Harps, Pure Humans, FOTE 2016 and Wexford Festival Opera)

This weekly...the bright lights of Wexford with opera director, Rodula Gaitano; Galway's Food On The Edge global grub symposium; how to make your own harp, and the possibility of skin having a life after it's owner has departed...

Friday, October 28, 2016

Culture File: Black and White Wexford

In search of just the right moment with Wexford's photographic chronicler, Pádraig Grant

Thursday, October 27, 2016

Culture File: Radula Gaitanou sniffs out Barber's Vanessa

Director, Radula Gaitanou, on inspirations for her take on Barber's neglected opera

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Culture File: Food on The Edge Hors D'Oeuvre

A first helping of voices and sizzle from Food on The Edge 2016 international culinary thinkathon in Galway

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Culture File: Achill International Harp Festival

You don't need planning permission to build your own harp at Achill International Harp Festival

The Culture File Weekly No. 93 (Desperate Optimists, Harry Christophers & The Sixteen, old school Intersectionality, and Peter Hook)

This weekly, we take a walk through London Fields with Desperate Optimists, plus Harry Christophers on why The Sixteen are quite like the Rolling Stones, Maureen O'Connor on animal rights in the fight for human freedom and Peter Hook on the ostensibly inadvisable job of reworking acid house anthems in a classical style

Monday, October 24, 2016

Culture File: Animal Rights & Human Freedoms

Maureen O'Connor on animal rights in the fight for human freedom

Friday, October 21, 2016

Culture File: How Not to Tell The Story of Ambrose O'Higgins

Desperate Optimists, Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor, on truth, lies and documentary making

Thursday, October 20, 2016

Culture File: Are You On One?

A seamless setlist of rave bangers played by full orchestra? Got just the right thing for you, Hacienda Classical

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Culture File: It's Only Baroque 'n' Renaissance Polyphony (But I Like It)

At first, similarities between The Rolling Stones and the choral magic of The Sixteen are not completely obvious

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Culture File: Wolves in the Octagon

Sculpture, Catherine Greene creates new work for the oldest purpose-built exhibition gallery in these islands

Monday, October 17, 2016

Culture File: How important is the label in art?

Curator, Louise Foott, on who is in and who is out of the art world, and who gets to decide

The Culture File Weekly no 92 (Ryan Estep, Organ Reframed, Claire Singer, Irene Buckley, Spire, Philip Jeck)

We get experimental this weekly as we attempt to tour a Dublin exhibition of artist, Ryan Estep, with its creator, while he remains on the other side of the Atlantic. Then we'll spend some time in the flickering half-light of Union Chapel, where the inaugural Organ Reframed festival, curated by chapel organist, Claire Singer, has been taking place

Friday, October 14, 2016

Culture File: A Knowing Space

Around the stairwell at Union Chapel, sound artist Bill Thompson has wired a flock of salvaged organ pipes

Culture File: A Dating Agency for Organs

Hooking up a roster of experimental musicians with some of the world's great pipe organs is the aim of Spire

Thursday, October 13, 2016

Culture File: A Dating Agency for Organs (Organ Reframed 2)

Organising hook ups for a roster of experimental musicians with some of the world's greatest pipe organs is the business of Spire. The latest Spire took place as part of Union Chapel's Organ Reframed festival.

Culture File: A Knowing Space (Organ Reframed 3)

Around the stairwell at Union Chapel, Islington, sound artist, Bill Thompson has wired a flock of salvaged organ pipes to create a ringing, resonant installation at this year's Organ Reframed festival.

Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Culture File: The Organ gets Reframed at Union Chapel

Organ Reframed is a three-day festival of contemporary music and sound, for and about the organ

Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Culture File: Ryan Estep's New Tools

Invoking the shaky magic of the internet, we tour Ryan Estep's latest Dublin show in the artist's company

Monday, October 10, 2016

Culture File: Love after Death at FutureFest

The artists, techies, Instagram deities and purveyors of grasshopper power bars consider death at Futurefest 2016

The Culture File Weekly No 81 (FutureFest 2016)

This weekly, we join the crowds at FutureFest in London's Tobacco Dock, meet the Swede who runs chip insertion parties, look at the future of death, say hi to computer games "story paramedic" Rhianna Pratchett and of course, we'll walk the corridors of FutureFest, listening to the calls of the future barkers boosting their future wares

Friday, October 7, 2016

Culture File: Futurefest 3 "Chipping for Freedom"

Can inserting microchips in our own bodies be a resistance strategy?

Thursday, October 6, 2016

Culture File: FutureFest 2

Narrative designer / story paramedic, Rhianna Pratchett, on the growing sophistication of storytelling in gaming

Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Culture File: At FutureFest 2016

Play future games, get chipped, die and scoff sci-fi ice-cream at the FutureFest, the funfair of "what's next?"

Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Culture File: Ali White's Timeless Tunes

Belfast-born Ali White is the latest in a growing line of actors to make their jazz debuts thanks to Shakespeare

Monday, October 3, 2016

Culture File: SP McCardle's Magical Travel Fiction

Spotting a gap in the market or inventing a genre? SP McCardle on developing a franchise of magical travel books

The Culture File Weekly No 90 (Paul Kelly's fishing trips, Japanese Ink, Yair Neuman, SP McCardle)

This weekly, we meet a designer who is using the skills of Stoke-on-Trent in the service of personal audio; author and publisher, SP McCardle explains the art of getting words on the page; Brian Ashcraft wanders in the world of Japanese tattoos; and we visit the secret hideaway of Paul Kelly and his gang. Or band, as they prefer to be known

Friday, September 30, 2016

The Culture File Weekly no 89 (Grandbrothers, Aisling Kelliher's "computational thinking")

This weekly, we visit Amsterdam to share the secrets of time and space with ceramist, Deirdre McLoughlin; set about a grand piano alongside Germany's Grandbrothers; Prof Aisling Kelliher offers some coaching on "computational thinking" and we get woke with French activist, Maria Canabal, who is struggling for equality in the food world

Culture File: Japanese Ink

While Japan has an ancient tattooing tradition, getting inked is often seen as backward, shameful, even criminal

Thursday, September 29, 2016

Culture File: How Irish literature stopped worrying and love the bog

How bogs shaped Irish writing, from Bram Stoker to Marina Carr, Deirdre Kinahan - and of course, Seamus Heaney

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Culture File: Paul Kelly's Ancient Rain

Some call him the Australian Springsteen, but in reality, the songwriting troubadour is the world's Paul Kelly

Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Culture File: Josiah Wedgwood in the Age of Bluetooth

How designer, Yair Neuman, is firing up Stoke-on-Trent's great ceramic tradition with...a china bluetooth speaker

Monday, September 26, 2016

Culture File: The underground scene at 10-Z

A former nuclear shelter buried deep beneath a 14th century castle in Moravia gets reopens - as a hotel

Friday, September 23, 2016

Culture File: Deirdre McLoughlin's Amsterdam

Eleanor Flegg goes to Amsterdam in search of the magical transformations of ceramist, Deirdre McLoughlin

Thursday, September 22, 2016

Culture File: Equality in the Kitchen

Food activist, Maria Canabal, is fighting for a rethink of the human side of the restaurant and its kitchen

Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Culture File Xtra: Computational Thinking At Length

The XXL version of our conversation with Prof. Aisling Kelliher on "computational thinking". Will it be a fundamental skill used by everyone by the middle of the 21st century?

Culture File: Culture Night Ambassador, Ronan O'Snodaigh

Culture Night ambassador, Ronan O'Snodaigh, on the magical mystery tour that is Culture Night

Culture File: Aisling Kelliher on the future of thinking

Computational thinking will be a fundamental skill used by everyone. Discuss. With help from Prof. Aisling Kelliher

Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Culture File: Grandbrothers

Grandbrothers features one piano and two musicians who "play" it at the same time - but only one touches the keys

Friday, September 16, 2016

Culture File: Steve Cooney's harp sounds

Why 17th century Irish harp music maybe sounds better on the guitar, with genre busting musician, Steve Cooney

Thursday, September 15, 2016

Culture File: Ester Havlová's Fragments

Straddling Wenceslas and Merrion Squares, with a new exhibition by Czech architectural photographer, Ester Havlová

Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Culture File: The Recession Percussion

New uses for milk frothers, jam jars, velcro and car spares with percussionist extraordinaire, Alex Petcu

Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Culture File: Lucan House

Through the parlours and salon of Lucan House, with Italian Ambassador and resident, Giovanni Adorni Braccesi

Monday, September 12, 2016

Culture File: Telmo Pievani on Earth's ongoing sixth Mass Extinction (part 2 of 2)

Prof Pievani on the place where biology, philosophy and the future of life on Earth touch.

The Culture File Weekly No. 87 (Telmo Pievani, samba autopsy, the San Patricios Battalion and Daniel O'Connell)

This weekly, Telmo Pievani, Italy's first chair in the Philosophy of Biological Sciences has some suggestion for saving planet earth, Swedish-Brazilian duo, Magnus Lindgren/Nelson Faria perform a samba autopsy, painter-cum-war artist, John Ratajkowski follows the San Patricios Battalion and we (monster) meet a new graphic life of Daniel O'Connell.

Friday, September 9, 2016

Culture File: Telmo Pievani on ethics, evolution...and music (part 1 of 2)

Italy's first chair in the Philosophy of Biological Sciences on how music evolved and homo sapiens remade the planet

Thursday, September 8, 2016

Culture File: Anatomy of a Samba

Swedish-Brazilian sax-guitar duo, Magnus Lindgren and Nelson Faria, cut open one of their compositions

Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Culture File: Ratajkowski's San Patricios

Images by Mathew Brady and other early war photographers find their way into the work of the San Diego artist.

Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Culture File: Daniel O'Connell

A history book published in 2016? Not about 1916? Jody Moylan courageously turns his attention to Daniel O'Connell

Monday, September 5, 2016

The Culture File Weekly No 86 (Tom McCarthy Pret A Manger Special)

In the winter of 2014 Culture File went to meet Tom McCarthy. It took place in a branch of the sandwich chain, Pret A Manger. Pret, the Booker-prize nominated author suggested, was an emblematic London non-place - an ideal unlocation in which to discuss contemporary London, the art of Hergé and Cocteau and the palatability of Pret salads

Monday, August 29, 2016

The Culture File Weekly No 85 (LA Stories)

Luke Clancy sets "pickup location", hits "Tap and Ride" and takes an Uber through Los Angeles, meeting magic shows and exhibitions, graveyards and beaches, perfumes and butterflies - and of course, lots of Uber drivers.

Monday, August 22, 2016

The Culture File Weekly No 84 (Truffling Special)

Dublin-based restaurateur, Giorgio Casari guides us through the foothills around the Northern Italian town of Alba, where each year the Truffle Festival draws thousands of fans of the white fungus.

Tuesday, August 16, 2016

The Culture File Weekly - August 2016 Promo

Feel all the colours, with the weekliest show of culture and creativity, The Culture File Weekly. Saturdays, 6.30pm, @RTElyricfm

Monday, August 15, 2016

The Culture File Weekly No 83 (Billy Elliot Summer Special)

Jon Finn, a producer and instigator of Billy Elliot, on the struggle to turn a tale of ballet and British politics into a globally successful musical.

Monday, August 1, 2016

Culture File: The best uses of "yes" and "no" with composer, Neil Martin (part 2)

.@KilkennyArts composer, Neil Martin, learnt the importance of "no" from his friend, Seamus Heaney. Now he is creating a soundtrack for Heaney's Aeneid: Book VI at this year's Kilkenny Arts Festival, alongside another of the poet's former collaborators, Stephen Rea.

Friday, July 29, 2016

Culture File: The best uses of "yes" and "no" with composer, Neil Martin (Part 1)

Composer, Neil Martin on cellos and dancers, Heaney and Virgil, the afterlife and the bit before.

Thursday, July 28, 2016

Culture File: Documenting Doping

Documentary maker, Gretha Viana on 9.79 seconds that heralded a new era of sport.

Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Culture File: Gwilym Simcock's Fingers

How to straddle the jazz-classical divide, with the Welsh-born pianist and Impossible Gentleman kingpin.

Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Culture File: Tommy Fleming's Paddy

The Irish singer heads into the world of musical theatre with the story of an Irish immigrant in 1960s England

Monday, July 25, 2016

Culture File: Mastering Chopin with Dr Chen

Dublin International Piano Festival's Archie Chen leads a fingertip tour of best practice Chopin

The Culture File Weekly No 80 (Cannabis and sensory craft, cannibalism in Brazilian culture, Irish showjumping and Mexican embroidery)

This weekly: we share a curry comb with an Irish showjumper, hunt the embroidered treasure of Oaxaca and beyond, hear smell scientist Avery Gilbert, predictions for the future of legalised pot, and listen as Ambassador Afonso José Cardoso, explains the literal and metaphorical role of cannibalism in Brazilian culture. Phew.

Friday, July 22, 2016

Culture File: Sensory Craft and Pot Fragrance

Smell scientist, Avery Gilbert, sees the future of his specialty in Colorado's legalised marijuana industry

Thursday, July 21, 2016

Culture File: Cannibalism and Culture

Cannibalism both literal and metaphorical on a journey into the tasty heart of Brazil's musical history (photo: Cannibalism in Brazil in 1557 as described by Hans Staden (b. around 1525 – Wolfhagen, 1579). Gravure de Théodore de Bry, 1562)

Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Culture File: Darryl Walker's Stable Life

Irish Showjumper Darryl Walker introduces us to some of his charges there at Inchanappa House in County Wicklow

Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Culture File: Which would Frida Kahlo wear?

Rebecca Devaney has been knocking on doors, meeting craftspeople and collecting embroideries from all over Mexico

Culture File Xtra: Antonina's Hummingbirds

Rebecca Devaney has been knocking on doors, meeting craftspeople and collecting embroideries from all over Mexico. One of the textiles she encountered was by Antonina Cornelia

Monday, July 18, 2016

Culture File: LA Stories (Part 4)

In the final part of our LA diaries, Luke finds Uber's best secret use: as a music recommendation service

The Culture File Weekly No 79 (Katie O'Kelly, Ruba Shamshoum, Christina Kubisch, Meltybrains?)

This Weekly, playwright Katie O'Kelly and singer, Ruba Shamshoum talk about art in troubled times, we take a walk in the park with Christina Kubisch and get our brains slightly melted by dublin experimental pop band, Meltybrains?

Friday, July 15, 2016

Culture File: Meltybrains? Anyone?

Dublin experimental pop ensemble Meltybrains? on harmony, counterpoint and the best way to mass manufacture masks

Thursday, July 14, 2016

Culture File: Christina Kubisch in Islandbridge

The electric landscapes of the city and the Irish lives lost in WWI made audible in the work of the Berlin artist

Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Culture File: Katie O'Kelly's Olive Tree

Katie O'Kelly's new one-woman show debuts as part of this year's Palfest, Palestinian solidarity art festival

Culture File: Ruba Shamshoum's vocalcano

A musical image of a Middle East primed to erupt, in the music of a Nazareth-born, Dublin-based jazz singer

Monday, July 11, 2016

Culture File: LA Stories (Part 3)

The Monarchs of Venice Beach (and Theodor Adorno)

The Culture File Weekly No 78 (Tanabata, The Wake, Wilde Stories, Fourth of July)

This weekly, we celebrate the seventh day of the seventh month, Japanese style and the fourth day of the seventh month, American style, as well as dance on film in The Wake and the washing up sounds of Michael Gallen

Friday, July 8, 2016

Culture File: Chef, Takashi Miyazaki celebrates all the 7s of Tanabata in Mitchelstown

The Japanese festival of the 7th day of the 7th month is marked by a 7-course meal eaten deep in a cave in Cork

Thursday, July 7, 2016

Culture File: Michael Gallen's Wilde music

High up places feed the music of composer, Michael Gallen's suite inspired by Oscar Wilde's children's stories

Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Culture File: Oonagh Kearney's The Wake

Filmmaker Oonagh Kearney's latest trilogy of films explores the female body through choreography

Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Culture File: Fourth of July in the Deerfield Residence

They jury may be out on Brexit, but 1776's Amexit is heartily celebrated each July 4th

Monday, July 4, 2016

Culture File Xtra: Meltybrains? essay the RTE lyricfm signature tune

.@Meltybrains ? do their candypink earthquake version of a classic & also speak next week Culture File @RTELyricFM

Culture File: LA Stories (Part 2)

Who'd put Black Mountain as their first choice college? Luke wonders, at a show on the experimental art school

The Culture File Weekly No 77 (Mexican music, Mauritian cuisine, California startups, Brazilian censorship)

This weekly, the Italian chef who is bringing mama's technique to African ingredients, a conductor who knows the power of Instagram, a Brazilian typographer who is trying to tell the story of censorship in his country, and Prof Aisling Kelliher on the CNBC Disruptor 50 list.

Friday, July 1, 2016

Culture File: Mexican conductor, Alondra de la Parra

Do you follow the conductor on Instagram? Alondra de la Parra, on the life of the modern maestro

Thursday, June 30, 2016

Culture File: Crystian Cruz' creates a typeface to tell a history of censorship

A Brazilian typographer uses his art to exhume the history of censorship under his country's military dictatorship

Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Culture File: A new creole cuisine on Mauritius

Italian chef, Fabio de Poli, is bringing Mauritian staples like palm heart or ochra, into the world of fine dining

Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Culture File: Aisling Kelliher on the Disruptor 50

The tech version of "The World's 50 Best Restaurants" is CNBC Disruptor 50, a guess about what's about to be big

Monday, June 27, 2016

Culture File Xtra: Culture File: Aisling Kelliher on the Disruptor 50 Long version

An extended version of our Culture File picking winners and WTFs from CNBC's Disruptor 50 for 2016, with Prof Aisling Kelliher, of Virginia Tech.

The Culture File Weekly No 76 (NCAD, The Listening Crowd, A world of numbers with Piergiorgio Odifreddi)

Does hiring a banker to run an art college presage a clash of cultures? Maybe not, says NCAD's Bernard Hanratty. Italian mathematical philosopher and Joycean, Piergiorgio Odifreddi on why numbers never click for some people; and The Listening Crowd conference investigates new music and the people who lend it their ears

Culture File: LA Stories (Part 1)

Los Angeles, the ultimate car culture city is getting remade by the "ride sharing service" Uber

Friday, June 24, 2016

Culture File: Good and Bad at Maths

Italian mathematical philosopher and Joycean, Piergiorgio Odifreddi on why numbers never click for some people

Thursday, June 23, 2016

Culture File: Prof Piergiorgio Odifreddi on the maths of culture and the culture of maths

Where math meshes with literature and the theories of Gödel mesh with the imaginings of Joyce

Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Culture File: The Listening Crowd

It's not just about who listens, but how, at The Listening Crowd conference on new music audiences

Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Culture File: NCAD Management

Does hiring a banker to run an art college presage a clash of cultures? Maybe not, says NCAD's Bernard Hanratty

Monday, June 20, 2016

The Culture File Weekly No 75 (Emperor Charles IV, fiddler-artist, Sinéad Onóra Kennedy, Google's Tango VR tools, Cape Town Opera)

This weekly: the artist-fiddle player who blends her two skills together, a team of architects using Google Tango, the story of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV and an opera biography of Nelson Mandela

Culture File: Flying Dodo

Oscar Olsen runs Mauritius' only craft brewery, but aims to spread his gospel, and his beer, across Africa

Friday, June 17, 2016

Culture File: Mandela Sings!

How best to tell the grand, complex life story of Nelson Mandela? Through opera of course!

Thursday, June 16, 2016

Culture File: Relics of Charles IV

Jirí Fajit of the National Gallery, Prague, on his new relic-filled show about the greatest King of Bohemia

Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Culture File: Tango at the Roundhouse

Telling the stories of London's Roundhouse venue using Tango, an experimental VR technology from Google.

Culture File: Sound into pigment with Sinéad Onóra Kennedy

Artist-fiddler, Sinéad Onóra Kennedy on creating images of her experiences of traditional fiddle music

The Culture Fie Weekly No 74 (Olafur Eliasson, Bill Butt, Pom Boyd, Mauritius' Rumvolution)

This weekly: Icelandic artist and environmental activist, Olafur Eliasson on following in the footsteps of LeBrun and Bernini in the layer of the Sun King, Bill Butt’s cello, how the women of 1916 are inspiring on a new history of the 20th century and a visit the tiny St Aubin rhummerie in Mauritius to witness a rumvelution!

The Culture File Weekly No. 73 (Billy Elliot, Ballymaloe Food Fest, Adblocking)

This weekly: the 1980s politics that gave rise to new millennium music blockbuster, Billy Elliot, the rise and rise of adblocking software and a tasting plate of cooks, writers and "sacred dining" from this year's Ballymaloe Festival.

Monday, June 13, 2016

Culture File: The Two Sun Kings at Versaille

Environmental artist, Olafur Eliasson on following in the steps of LeBrun and Bernini in the layer of the Sun King

Friday, June 10, 2016

Culture File: Michelin Stars & Balancing the Books

Galway chef and owner Aniar restaurant talk Michelin stars, staffing levels and the business of food..

Culture File: Bill Butt's Cello

Bill Butt, cello in tow, offers help on (among other things) cello wood choice and Kodály's funky tuning tricks.

Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Culture File: A Rum Revolution in the Indian Ocean

Culture File: A Rum Revolution in the Indian Ocean Mauritius' St Aubin "rhumerie" is at the head of an artisan rum revolution on the Indian Ocean.

Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Culture File: Celebrating the Woman of 1916

Celebrating the women of 1916 is the start of the job in Smashing Times Theatre's Women, War and Peace season.

Friday, June 3, 2016

Culture File: Billy Elliot Goes Global (Part 2)

The many afterlives (including the Korean version) of Billy Elliot

Thursday, June 2, 2016

Culture File: Billy Elliot Dances On (Part 1 of 2)

Elton John and the 1980s politics that drive a 21st century blockbuster, with Billy Elliot producer, Jon Finn

Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Culture File: The Ethics of Adblocking

To Block, or not to block that is the question Prof Aisling Kelliher wrestles with every time she's on the web

Monday, May 30, 2016

Culture File: Gjendines's Lullaby

Norwegian singer, Unni Løvlid, on tradition and evolution, and the inspiration for Greig's Gjendines Lullaby

Culture File: Gjendines's Lullaby

Norwegian singer, Unni Løvlid, on tradition and evolution, and the inspiration for Greig's Gjendines Lullaby

Culture File: Gjendines's Lullaby

Norwegian singer, Unni Løvlid, on tradition and evolution, and the inspiration for Greig's Gjendines Lullaby

Culture File: Gjendines's Lullaby

Norwegian singer, Unni Løvlid, on tradition and evolution, and the inspiration for Greig's Gjendines Lullaby

Culture File: Gjendines's Lullaby

Norwegian singer, Unni Løvlid, on tradition and evolution, and the inspiration for Greig's Gjendines Lullaby

The Culture File Weekly No. 72 (Red Cable Sunday, 3D Audio, Tadhg O’Sullivan)

This weekly, London musician, Red Cable Sunday on new models of democracy and the music of social justice; bringing you ears into another dimension, with the aid of 3D audio and Tadhg O’Sullivan investigation of Europe wall and fenced fringes

The Culture File Weekly No. 72 (Red Cable Sunday, 3D Audio, Tadhg O’Sullivan)

This weekly, London musician, Red Cable Sunday on new models of democracy and the music of social justice; bringing you ears into another dimension, with the aid of 3D audio and Tadhg O’Sullivan investigation of Europe wall and fenced fringes

The Culture File Weekly No. 72 (Red Cable Sunday, 3D Audio, Tadhg O’Sullivan)

This weekly, London musician, Red Cable Sunday on new models of democracy and the music of social justice; bringing you ears into another dimension, with the aid of 3D audio and Tadhg O’Sullivan investigation of Europe wall and fenced fringes

The Culture File Weekly No. 72 (Red Cable Sunday, 3D Audio, Tadhg O’Sullivan)

This weekly, London musician, Red Cable Sunday on new models of democracy and the music of social justice; bringing you ears into another dimension, with the aid of 3D audio and Tadhg O’Sullivan investigation of Europe wall and fenced fringes

The Culture File Weekly No. 72 (Red Cable Sunday, 3D Audio, Tadhg O’Sullivan)

This weekly, London musician, Red Cable Sunday on new models of democracy and the music of social justice; bringing you ears into another dimension, with the aid of 3D audio and Tadhg O’Sullivan investigation of Europe wall and fenced fringes

Friday, May 27, 2016

Culture File: Artusi's Art of Eating Well

Italian food whisperer, Giorgio Casari & culinary historian, Massimo Montanari, on a cookbook that built a nation

Culture File: Artusi's Art of Eating Well

Italian food whisperer, Giorgio Casari & culinary historian, Massimo Montanari, on a cookbook that built a nation

Culture File: Artusi's Art of Eating Well

Italian food whisperer, Giorgio Casari & culinary historian, Massimo Montanari, on a cookbook that built a nation

Culture File: Artusi's Art of Eating Well

Italian food whisperer, Giorgio Casari & culinary historian, Massimo Montanari, on a cookbook that built a nation

Culture File: Artusi's Art of Eating Well

Italian food whisperer, Giorgio Casari & culinary historian, Massimo Montanari, on a cookbook that built a nation

Thursday, May 26, 2016

Culture File: Feis Ceol Craic

The Ireland's Got Talent avant le mot, celebrates its 120th birthday this year.

Culture File: Feis Ceol Craic

The Ireland's Got Talent avant le mot, celebrates its 120th birthday this year.

Culture File: Feis Ceol Craic

The Ireland's Got Talent avant le mot, celebrates its 120th birthday this year.

Culture File: Feis Ceol Craic

The Ireland's Got Talent avant le mot, celebrates its 120th birthday this year.

Culture File: Feis Ceol Craic

The Ireland's Got Talent avant le mot, celebrates its 120th birthday this year.

Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Culture File: Red Cable Sunday (Part 2)

Red Cable Sunday's Denis Fernando on new models of democracy and the music of social justice

Culture File: Red Cable Sunday (Part 2)

Red Cable Sunday's Denis Fernando on new models of democracy and the music of social justice

Culture File: Red Cable Sunday (Part 2)

Red Cable Sunday's Denis Fernando on new models of democracy and the music of social justice

Culture File: Red Cable Sunday (Part 2)

Red Cable Sunday's Denis Fernando on new models of democracy and the music of social justice

Culture File: Red Cable Sunday (Part 2)

Red Cable Sunday's Denis Fernando on new models of democracy and the music of social justice

Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Culture File: Red Cable Sunday (Part 1)

Red Cable Sunday is activist and musician, Denis Fernando, who records under the name Red Cable Sunday

Culture File: Red Cable Sunday (Part 1)

Red Cable Sunday is activist and musician, Denis Fernando, who records under the name Red Cable Sunday

Culture File: Red Cable Sunday (Part 1)

Red Cable Sunday is activist and musician, Denis Fernando, who records under the name Red Cable Sunday

Culture File: Red Cable Sunday (Part 1)

Red Cable Sunday is activist and musician, Denis Fernando, who records under the name Red Cable Sunday

Monday, May 23, 2016

Culture File: Tadhg O'Sullivan's Walls

If any architectural feature could be said to be "having a moment," then walls are indeed having a big one

The Culture File Weekly No. 71 (Harpist, Katerina Englichova, the "enchanter" of Prague Castle, Hannah Mottlová's Prague)

This weekly in a Prague Spring special, we share a brown beer with Czech Harpagandist, Katerina Englichova, hear about the Prague of Hannah Mottlová's mind's eye and meet the man who helped Vaclav Havel and Mick Jagger storm Prague Castle

Friday, May 20, 2016

Culture File: Brigid Power-Ryce

Connoisseur of echoey spaces, Brigid Power-Ryce, on recording in car parks, churches and Culture File Towers

Thursday, May 19, 2016

Culture File: 3D Sound

It's one thing shooting 360 degrees video, but how will it sound?

Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Culture File: Czech Harpagandist, Katerina Englichova (Prague Spring Festival Part 3)

Harp soloist, Katerina Englichova wants the world to take her instrument a little more seriously

Monday, May 16, 2016

The Culture File Weekly No. 70 (The Prague Spring Festival, Alex Mercado, Finghin Collins, Teddy Cruz)

This weekly, we take a trip to Czechia for this year's Prague Spring Festival and discover what orchestras are for; we'll hear tales of two pianos and their players, Alex Mercado and Finghin Collins, and we'll share an important message from a research-based political and architectural practice in San Diego, Estudio Teddy Cruz + Forman

Culture File: Prague Spring Festival (Part 2)

How The Rolling Stones helped revitalise Prague Castle, with historian and Castle enchanter, Prof. Zdenek Lukeš

Friday, May 13, 2016

Culture File: The Prague Spring Festival (Part 1)

What makes a city? A collection of people in one place? Or do they need other things, like symphony orchestras?

Thursday, May 12, 2016

Culture File: At home with Finghin Collins

As the piano prodigy turns forty, Finghin Collins, talks school, politics and living the dream

Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Culture File: Mexican jazz pianist, Alex Mercado

Discovering the new worlds of Keith Jarrett's improvisations drew Alex Mercado away from classical piano into jazz

Culture File: The Critical Power of Architecture

If Trump builds his wall who will design it? Not the architectural firm of Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman

Monday, May 9, 2016

The Culture File Weekly No. 69 (Snarky Puppy, Food Photography, Candlelit Tales, Analogue Synths)

This weekly, the growing obsession with photographing our dinners, the dog-shaped global jazz force Snarky Puppy, some quiet storytelling in a Dublin pub and the Masonic Hall vibrating to the sound of analogue synthesisers

Culture File: Musical Ancestor Worship

Simon Reynold’s vision of an almost unstoppable ancestor-worshipping epidemic in popular music

Friday, May 6, 2016

Culture File: #Instagrub

Up your #Instagrub game with some advice from Lens and Larder food stylist and photographer, Renée Kemps

Thursday, May 5, 2016

Culture File: Candlelit Tales

How the Tain and the speech styles of Twitter inspired pub storytelling event, Candlelit Tales

Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Culture File: Snarky Puppy

Bill Laurance from global jazz phenomena/collective, Snarky Puppy, talks music, therapy and Miles

Tuesday, May 3, 2016

The Culture File Weekly No. 68 (Archeogaming, No Man's Sky, James Murphy & Hieronymus Bosch)

This weekly, it's something of a holiday in the netherworld, as we visit Leiden in Holland, to a group of archaeologist who investigate the world of computer games and we'll head 100 miles South, to Den Bosch, to visit an exhibition dedicated to the town's best known son, Hieronymus Bosch, and we'll meet Cork choreographic tornado, James Murphy

Culture File: Ideopreneurial Entrephonics II

Sounds and wonders at a two-day festival of oddbod music, art and electronics in Dublin

The Culture File Weekly No. 68 (Archeogaming, No Man's Sky, James Murphy & Hieronymus Bosch)

This weekly, it's something of a holiday in the netherworld, as we visit Leiden in Holland, to a group of archaeologist who investigate the world of computer games and we'll head 100 miles South, to Den Bosch, to visit an exhibition dedicated to the town's best known son, Hieronymus Bosch, and we'll meet Cork choreographic tornado, Luke Murphy.

Friday, April 29, 2016

Culture File: Attic Projects's Luke Murphy

Choreographer and performer Luke Murphy on dance, determination and the possibility of whiplash

Thursday, April 28, 2016

Culture File: Archeogaming (part 3)

The archaeology and ethics of human-chicken relationships in video games, with research duo, Clucks & Clicks

Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Culture File: Archeogaming (part 2)

No Man's Sky, a game with a 18 quintillion planets to explore, will change gaming & keep games archaeologists busy

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Culture File: Archeogaming (part 1)

What happens when the apparently disparate worlds of archaeology and video games converge?

Monday, April 25, 2016

Culture File: Zooming in on Hieronymus Bosch

Luke Clancy visits the first almost complete gathering of the works of Dutch master of the weird, Hieronymus Bosch

The Culture File Weekly No 67 (Wigmore Hall special with John Gilhooly)

In this special edition, we walk amongst the marble and the ghosts at London's Wigmore Hall in the company of its Limerick-born director, John Gilhooly, to hear about the space's journey from piano showroom to the world's greatest chamber music venue

Friday, April 22, 2016

Culture File: The End of The English Wine Joke

Modern day Wine Goose, Dermot Sugrue on the fizz of an English wine renaissance in Sussex

Thursday, April 21, 2016

Culture File: The Wigmore Hall (part 3)

How one of the UK's oldest chamber music venues is approaching life online, with John Gilhooly of the Wigmore Hall

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Culture File: The Wigmore Hall (part 2)

Rubinstein's farewell, and other moments of Wigmore Hall history, with the venue's head, John Gilhooly

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Culture File: The Wigmore Hall

Amongst the velvet and mahogany at the world's greatest chamber music space, with the Wigmore Hall boss, John Gilhooly

Monday, April 18, 2016

Culture File: Alan Phelan's Our Kind

A speculative story of the life Roger Casement never had a chance to live, in Alan Phelan's new film

The Culture File Weekly No 66 (Sat 15 April 2016: The Yips in Music The Blue Boy Horace and Pete Clean Air and the Mezzo-Soprano)

This weekly, "the yips" in music; the most beautiful sound in the world as imagined by a child in an industrial school; smoke and the soprano; and why the old stuff seems so new in Louis CK's acclaimed and as it turns out, prohibitively expensive, not-quite comedy, Horace and Pete

Friday, April 15, 2016

Culture File: The Barber of Seville

Even as mezzo-of the moment, Tara Erraught, prepares for her 25th outing as Rosina, for her, Rossini never gets old

Thursday, April 14, 2016

Culture File: The Yips In Music

With "the yips" back in the sports pages, we consult our fav neurologist, Steven Frucht, about dystonia in music

Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Culture File: Horace and Pete's new old vision

Louis CK's "radically stagey" web series, Horace and Pete, makes disintermediation grimly appealing

Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Culture File: Grey socks and yapping dogs

Exploring the lives of people held as children in residential care institutions, in Brokentalkers' The Blue Boy

Monday, April 11, 2016

Culture File: Taking a chance with Russell Mills

Artist and notable designer of album sleeves for Brian Eno, Russell Mills, in conversation live at NCAD, Dublin

The Culture File Weekly No 63 (Sat 9th April 2016 On/Off Orlando Furioso John Sheahan)

This weekly, choosing the jazz lifestyle with Czech-Irish duo ON/OFF, fighting sea monsters in Ludovico Ariosto's epic 16th century romance, Orlando Furioso, and sharing a pint of coke and a glass of still water in The Ferryman pub with last Dubliner standing, fiddler, John Sheahan

Saturday, April 9, 2016

Culture File At FOTE Live - Mark Best (chef, Marque, Sydney)

Chef Mark Best's uncompromising look at the food industry, live at Food On The Edge, 2015.

Friday, April 8, 2016

Culture File: Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso at 500

Eric Haywood uncovers "knights in distress and damsels in shining armour" in an Italian Renaissance bestseller

Culture File: The Last Dubliner Standing (Part 1)

A pint of coke and a glass of water in The Ferryman, with the last remaining Dubliner, fiddler, John Sheahan

Culture File: The Last Dubliner Standing (Part 2)

More soft drinks and hard knocks, as fiddler, John Sheahan and bud, Eamonn O’Reilly, remember Dublin dockside life

Thursday, April 7, 2016

Culture File: Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso at 500

Eric Haywood uncovers "knights in distress and damsels in shining armour" in an Italian Renaissance bestseller

Culture File: Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso at 500

Eric Haywood uncovers "knights in distress and damsels in shining armour" in an Italian Renaissance bestseller

Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Culture File: Next Gen Jazz with On/Off

Reading the jazz tea leaves in search of the future of jazz, with Czech-Irish jazz duo On/Off

Monday, April 4, 2016

Culture File Weekly No 64 - Nicholas Serota Special

This weekly, a special edition with Nicholas Serota, the head of Tate - and the man responsible for turning a defunct London power station into one of the world’s most visited contemporary art destinations - on the evolution of the gallery, how to encounter new art and how the Turner Prize responded to a new role for contemporary art

Culture File: Director of Tate Nicholas Serota in conversation (Part 3)

How Tate Modern reshaped London, accidentally making life harder for younger artists

Friday, April 1, 2016

Culture File: Director of Tate Nicholas Serota in conversation (Part 2)

Nicholas Serota on the wandering years of the Turner Prize and why collaborative group, Assembly's 2015 win matters

Thursday, March 31, 2016

Wednesday, March 30, 2016

The Culture File Weekly No. 63 (Sat 26th March, 2016 with Tohono O'odham, music for skeletons, DJ Papal Nuncio and contentious fabrics)

This weekly: a scorching journey through the desert with the Tohono O'odham people, a concert among the skeletons and specimens at the Natural History Museum, the Papal Nuncio's rock 'n' roll radio days and the academic who thinks it's time to pay a little less attention to flags and a little more to other humbler pieces of cloth

Culture File: Morse and The Rising

Sound artist, Jimmy Eadie, celebrates a short, optimistic morse message sent from O'Connell Street in Easter 1916

Saturday, March 26, 2016

Culture File: Morse and The Rising

Sound artist, Jimmy Eadie, celebrates a short, optimistic morse message sent from O'Connell Street in Easter 1916, in his Little Museum of Dublin sound installation.

Thursday, March 24, 2016

Culture File Xtra: April Promo

Listen out for this new Culture File promo across RTE-tuned radios in the coming days. And obviously, share like crazy too...

Culture File: Very Like A Whale

Making vocal music from the dimensions of a whale, at Tonnta Music's takeover night at the Natural History Museum

Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Culture File: Crossing the Great Wall of America

A pilgrim's eye view of the Great Wall of America with the Tohono O'odham tribe and photographer, Maeve Hickey

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Culture File: Textiles of The Nation

How a handkerchief might be as important to Irish identity as a tricolour, according to Prof. Catherine Harper.

Culture File Xtra: Tohono O'odham

JIC you'd like to practice the pronunciation of the tribe that are crossing the Sonoran Desert this evening (220316) on Culture File, pronounced here by the woman who photographed their yearly journey along "The Great Wall of America" for her exhibition "Walking to Magdalena, a Pilgrimage"

Saturday, March 19, 2016

Culture File: Linda Buckley's Oblique Strategy

Eno's Oblique Strategies cards steer a chat with composer, Linda Buckley, whose new work is inspired by the cards

Thursday, March 17, 2016

Culture File: @USAmbIreland Kevin O'Malley's road back home

The journey of one family of economic refugees to the US, the O'Malley's of Mayo, ends up at @USAmbIreland c/o @USEmbassyDublin @WhiteHouse @POTUS Music: "The Beautiful Road" - Ronan O'Snodaigh https://itun.es/i6YS4pT

Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Culture File: US Ambassador, Kevin O'Malley's Paddy's Day

Replacing the dollar-stuffed envelope home with new creative initiatives, with US Ambassador, Kevin O'Malley

Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Culture File: Kate Ellis' Wandering Cello

It's no surprise that cellist and Crash Ensemble boss Kate Ellis thinks genres have little meaning in new music

Monday, March 14, 2016

Culture File: Pianist-composer, Lambert's search for the right mask

Berlin-based Lambert, on the best place to obtain Sardinian folk masks and other essentials of his performances.

The Culture File Weekly No. 61 (Sat 12th Feb, 2016, w/ fecal microbiota transplantation, the ghosts of greyhounds, the sound of old Anatolia

This weekly, we’ll be remembering the old days in Anatolia, travelling to Offaly to hear about a 13th century saint who had the rare distinction of being a greyhound and exploring we get a taste of fecal microbiota transplantation (though not literally).

Friday, March 11, 2016

Culture File: Mary Fox's historical hounds

Greyhound historian, Mary Fox, on the long, strange friendship between humans and their fastest, best friends

Thursday, March 10, 2016

Culture File: Antonia Arslan's Armenian grandfather

How the writings of Italian novelist, Antonia Arslan, brought memories of her grandfather's Anatolia back to life

Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Culture File: Antonia Arslan's Armenian grandfather

How the writings of Italian novelist, Antonia Arslan, brought memories of her grandfather's Anatolia back to life

Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Culture File: Patrolling the Brain-Gut-Microbiota Axis

Culture file is living up to its name this time, as we get a taste of fecal microbiota transplantation (so not literally)

Monday, March 7, 2016

Culture File at FOTE: JP McMahon's Big Plan

Food on The Edge-founder, JP McMahon on the conference he hopes will become a regular gathering of world chefs

The Culture File Weekly No. 60 (Sat 5th Feb, 2016, w/Lemn Sissay, Silver Darling, Whack!! & Aisling Kelliher)

This weekly, chomps of Hiberno-Nordic cuisine, poet, Lemn Sissay on his Superman Was A Foundling, whacks from dancer-choreographers, Philip Connaughton and Ashley Chen, and aftershocks from a certain image of Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg

Friday, March 4, 2016

Culture File: Superman Was a Foundling

Superman Was A Foundling, Lemn Sissay points out in the title of a work he made for London's Foundling Museum

Thursday, March 3, 2016

Culture File: Irish Food Writers Guild Food Awards 2016

The Irish Food Writers Guild honours Hiberno-Nordic cuisine, with a 2016 Food Award for Silver Darlings herring

Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Culture File: Whack!!

Whack!! Is this a fight? Only Whack!! dancer-choreographers, Philip Connaughton and Ashley Chen can say for sure

Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Owww - Ummm - Eeeh - Urrrg

Whack!!!!! Tune in to Culture File at 5:40 on RTE LyricFM to hear Philip Connaughton and Ashley Chen's fighting talk

Culture File: Mark Zuckerberg's surprise appearance

Prof Aisling Kelliher and Luke Clancy discuss a recent, very resonant image of Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg

Monday, February 29, 2016

Culture File at FOTE: Quique Dacosta's "conceptual evolution of paella"

Call it "molecular gastronomy" or "techno-emotional cuisine" - Quique Dacosta is still the current boss chef

The Culture File Weekly No. 59 (Saturday 27th Jan, 2016, with Jesse Jones, TNS's 42nd Street and Gong Bathing)

This weekly, artist Jesse Jones' feminist takeover at the Hugh Lane Gallery, sawdust and tinsel at an amateur production of 42nd Street, and an invitation to a gong bath. C'mon, it'll be fun!

Sunday, February 28, 2016

Gong Bath - Full Recording (no Mixing)

The full unedited recording of Lisa and Brian's Soundhenge Ireland Gong Bath.

Friday, February 26, 2016

Culture File: Gong Bathing

Come, lie down with 30-odd other souls in a candlelit, plant-filled room, and have a good sonic soak at a "gong bath"

Thursday, February 25, 2016

Culture File Xtra: C'mon, get in the gong bath, the sound is lovely!

Coming up at 5.40pm on @RTElyricfm @LyricLorcan, more things that sound like this... pic: Lisa and Brian of Soundhenge Ireland

Culture File: Artist, Jesse Jones' Feminist Parasite Institution

Jesse Jones on recasting the canon at the Hugh Lane Gallery, with help from her Feminist Parasite Institution

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Culture File: Jesse Jones on Robert Altman's 1977 classic, 3 Women

Artist Jesse Jones on how Altman's film, 3 Women, inspires a current feminist "takeover" at the Hugh Lane Gallery

Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Culture File: TMS's 42nd Street

Tinsel, glitter & the odd cracked skull as Gearoid Farrelly goes backstage at an amateur production of 42nd Street

Culture File at FOTE: Alyn Williams' Horlicks Haute Cuisine

The malted joys of Horlicks and a side of audio #foodporn from FOTE 2015, with chef, Alyn Williams

The Culture File Weekly No. 58 (Saturday 13th Feb, 2016, with Fifi Rong, RGKSKSRG, Pan Pan, Lavit Gallery)

This weekly, Pan Pan's rocking chair theatre, Fifi Rong's hybrid of English electronica and the music of the jazz clubs of 1930s Shanghai, three prize-winning graduates from Crawford School of Art and Design and RGKSKSRG's exhibition-cum-knees up at Rialto's Studio 468

Culture File: The 2016 Harvest at the Lavit Gallery, Cork

This year's harvest, at the Lavit Gallery's Student of The Year Exhibition of recent Cork art graduates.

Culture File: TMS's 42nd Street

Tinsel, glitter & the odd cracked skull as Gearoid Farrelly goes backstage at an amateur production of 42nd Street

Monday, February 22, 2016

Culture File at FOTE: Alyn Williams' Horlicks haute cuisine.

The ​malted ​joy​s​ of ​Horlicks ​and a ​​side of audio #foodporn ​from FOTE​2015​,​ ​with chef​,​ Alyn Williams

Thursday, February 18, 2016

Culture File: Fifi Rong's Shanghai Triphop

The West Country gloom of Tricky and the jazz of 1930s Shanghai come cheek to cheek in the music of Fifi Rong

Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Culture File: RGKSKSRG's ultimate awkward dancefloor moment

The art of parties with the curatorial team of Rachael Gilbourne and Kate Strain, who work together as RGKSKSRG

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Culture File Xtra: Strange @This is Sexy

Coming up at 5.40pm on RTE Lyric FM Culture File sinks into the closing night happening of a 9-month long project from the curatorial team of Rachael Gilbourne and Kate Strain, who go under the name R G K S K S R G. Sharon Phelan was in attendance for what the organisers described as "the ultimate awkward dancefloor moment"

Culture File: All That Fall Returns

Someone's outside with a van full of rockingchairs, which can only mean one thing: Pan Pan's All That Fall is back

Monday, February 15, 2016

The Culture File Weekly No. 57 (Saturday 13th Feb, 2016)

This weekly, we visit Berlin's Haus der Kulturen der Welt for Transmediale, the 'post-digital' gathering of critics, artists, academics and hackers - and some who combine all those roles. We meet a professor of biology, who is also a choreographer, an artist who is also a 'citizen spy' and an artwork that is also an experiment in financial hacking

Culture File at FOTE: Sasu Laukkonen's excellent carrot

For Helsinki chef, Sasu Laukkonen, it's time to think much more carefully about how good a simple carrot can really be.

Friday, February 12, 2016

Culture File: Mark Doherty's Bee! musical

Be they Bumble or solitary, drones or queens, Mark Doherty has a lot of love for the bees

Thursday, February 11, 2016

Culture File: Immaterial Value

At Transmediale, we meet what is a common site these days: artists sitting at a desk spoofing the financial system

Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Culture File: Rowell

Mapping the hidden power of think tanks, trade groups & lobbying agencies, with artist-researcher, Steve Rowell #tm16

Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Culture File: Microbiomes

In our first report from Berlin media thinkathon, Transmediale, we shake hands with artist biologist, F-J Lapointe

Monday, February 8, 2016

Culture File Weekly No 56 - Andy Sheppard Special

A special program with Andy Sheppard takes us to the saxophonist's Bristol eerie/studio to hear about perfect pitch, the importance of a good hifi and communal record listening, the epiphany of hearing a John Coltrane record, and making his own discs with the pretty-close-to legendary producer and label boss, Manfred Eicher of ECM records.

Friday, February 5, 2016

Culture File: Andy Sheppard Part 3

The Shakespeare of the Sax: Andy Sheppard on his latest jazz trio project, Shakespeare Songs.

Thursday, February 4, 2016

Culture File: Andy Sheppard Part 2

"If you can't do it in two days, why bother?" ECM Producer, Manfred Eicher, gives studio advice to Andy Sheppard

Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Culture File: Andy Sheppard Part 1

Up the winding hill-roads of Bristol to the instrument-lined eyrie of British saxophone giant, Andy Sheppard.

Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Culture File: Somerset Museum of Innocence

Culture File visits Istanbul's Museum of Innocence, the strange phenomenon that inspired a new film from Grant Gee

Monday, February 1, 2016

Culture File: Andy McFadden

Michelin-starred, Tallaght-born chef, Andy McFadden, on climbing the London fine dining ladder

Culture File Weekly No 55

This weekly, we travel from the Western Front in 1916 and what it meant for one Irish boy, to the economic front of 2008, and what it meant for one Icelandic chef. Master maker, Jack Doherty introduces us to some explosive pottery and we wonder why it is that despite being very good, Alejandro González Iñárritu’s film The Revenant isn't very good.

Friday, January 29, 2016

Culture File: Minimalist Movie Sounds

If live performances of music by blockbuster composers such as Williams and Elfman never quite lit your torch, would a night out work where Glass and Nyman are the heroes and minimalism -- and everything after -- the house style? MINIMAL FILM takes place on Friday, 29th Jan, at Samuel Beckett Theatre, TCD, Dublin, starting at 7.30pm.

Culture File: Hast Seen The Brown Bear?

Chances are, if you haven’t seen multi-nominated movie, The Revenant, and indeed even if you have, you could find yourself perplexed when it comes to sharing your real feelings. Because, once you’ve cooed over Leonardo DiCaprio’s lead performance, and the substantial assistance he gets from co-stars, Tom Hardy and Domhnall Gleeson, and indeed a substantial blanket of bearskin; once you genuflected approvingly at Emmanuel Lubezki photography “all shot in sequence and using natural light” - you might even add, cinéastically; after all that prayer-like murmuring of approval, you might be thrown back on the unspoken thought that no matter how good the Revenant is, it’s not actually that good. Now listen on...

Thursday, January 28, 2016

Culture File: Minimalist Soundtracks

If live performances of music by blockbuster composers such as Williams and Elfman never quite lit your torch, Irish composer Natasa Paulberg may have the thing for you, an event at which Glass and Nyman are the heroes and minimalism -- and everything after -- the house style. Sharon Phelan spoke to about her own compositional journey, and her plan to highlight minimalism at the multiplex.

Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Culture File @FOTE: Gunnar Karl Gíslason's special poo

You have some pretty great advantages if your mission in life as Reykjavik chef is to protect the culinary traditions of Iceland, the foremost of being that you're​ ​in Iceland. But ​the value of your isolation can go down as well as up. When the crisis of 2008 hit iceland, imports were suddenly out of the price range of the new restaurant he was opening - so, Gunnar Karl needed a new plan, as he explained to us backstage at Food on The Edge's Eyre Square base. Chef, Gunnar Karl Gíslason there, at the inaugural food on the edge symposium in Galway. And you can hear more from food on the edge, head to soundcloud.com and search for Culture File Gunnar Karl Gíslason

Culture File: Chloe Dewe Mathews' Shot at Dawn

Private James Crozier. 07:05 / 27.2.1916. Le Domaine des Cordeliers, Mailly-Maillet, Picardie. The title​s​ for Chloe Dewe Mathews photographs of 1st world war execution sites contain only the stark details recorded in the official records. Behind them lie a plethora of stories of young men, shot by their own sides for cowardice or desertion, often after murky courts martial. Mostly what we ​know for certain is what also know about Dewe Mathews's photos, that they were shot at a ​specific location​s​, at dawn. On Wednesday, 27th January, 2016, Prof Alex Danchev of the School of International Relations, University of St Andrews, will give a Lecture at IMMA, Kilmainham titled: Shot at Dawn: Moral Witness.

Thursday, January 21, 2016

Culture File: Death Row Memoirs of an Extraterrestrial

Hiberno-American quartet, Decoda, are working with actor, Diarmuid deFaoite, on Death Row Memoirs of an Extraterrestrial, a genre defying composition by American contemporary composer, Mark Neikrug, which gets its Irish premiere at the Music For Galway Winter Festival on 24th January, at the Town Hall Theatre, Dublin.

Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Culture File: Will St Leger's Bank of Secrets

Street artist, Will St Leger opened a one-day-only "bank" with a plan to allow customers to "lodge" their "secrets" in sealed envelopes, which the artist will burn and then mix with paint. And with the paint, he will create a giant, ephemeral wall text.

Culture File: Dylan Rynhart's Speech Melodies

Dylan Rynhart​'s​ ​​music is rooted in jazz, but ​the composer is also on a mission​ ​to explore the musical ​substance ​in ​everyday speech.

Culture File: Kathy Tynan's Boring Walks

The poetry of wheelie bins and apple cores on a walk through an overlooked Dublin, in the company of painter, Kathy Tynan and Kipper.

Culture File: Julie Merriman

Dublin city​ council's​ vast archive of dr​aw​ings describing every feature of ​the city's built environment,​has provided the inspiration for an exhibition of abstract images, often made with carbon paper or typewriter ribbon, by artist Julie Merryman. ​

Culture File: Stun Hun Shun

Professor Raymond Hickey on fashions in the ever-changing accents of Dublin.