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What’s your handle, Handel? A short history of pseudonyms and the art of making a name for yourself, online and off.

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Insect media theorist, Jussi Parrika, one of the contributors to this week’s open here conference in Dublin talks insects, ecology and media.

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Pianist Ivan Ilic on his discovery of the music of Morton Feldman and why he’d like to surprise play the composer’s music for fans of Brahms. (part 2 of 2)

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Pianist, Ivan Ilic unlocks the sinister secrets of left handed piano music, with some help from Chopin, Ravel and Godowsky. (Part 1 of 2)

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How Dublin artist Garrett Phelan enlisted thebell-ringersof the city’s two cathedrals to collaboate on his New Faith Love Song.

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The beauty of creaking escalators and the role of podcasts in the work of young Irish composers, with Dylan Rynhart and Emma O Halloran of The Irish Composers Collective

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For the best improv music, just add some good friends, advises a current multi instrumentalist practitioner of the art, Sean Mac Erlaine.

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Come with us into the doctor’s waiting room where the painist plays every Thursday, with Prof Tim Lynch.

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Why have so many great musicians been struck with the neurlogical disorder, dystonia? Prof Steve Frucht on understanding and treating the condition.

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Is there a Facebook exodus underway? We hear about one person’s decision to leave the social network, with THISISPOPBABY’s Jenny Jennings.

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Musician, Liam Ó Maonlaí, choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan, along with composer, Donnacha Dennehy, discuss the musical powers of Sean O’Riada, who inspired the globetrotting dance show, Rian.

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Albanian artist, Anri Sala, and American composer, Ari Benjamin Meyers, on humming, breathing and their film,1395 Days Without Red

If you listen to the end of our report on the Serendipitor app, you’ll hear mention of a sketch of our reporter, Louise Williams, created by some eight year olds in Smithfield, Dublin. Well, this is that sketch. And this is exactly what Louise Williams look like. 

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Artist, Mark Shephard and his Serendipitor app help us discover a Dublin of happy accidents

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Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya! Mick Minogue’s real life (sorta) model of the Nyan Cat. He explains himself here (audio, 7mins). Although, Nyan cat still keeps schtum.

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Giving physical form to the internet’s biggest memes with Dublin-based artist, Mick Minogue.

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Limerick Art collective, Faber Studios,on making good use of the things the everyday folks leave behind for their EVA 2012 project, re-possession. (3/3)

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EVA contributors, Art Links Limerick on social practice and scary monsters in the Shannon. (2/3)

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EVA curator, Annie Fletcher, tells about her motives and her choices for this year’s Limerick’s Biennale, as well as about the exhibition’s title, After The Future. (1/3)

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Unstoppable travel writer and author of The Blessings of a Good Thick Skirt, Mary Russell, shows us around the place she calls home.

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Artist papermaker, Tunde Toth, on getting the passing crowds making paper for her Silk Garden at this year’s Bloom in the Phoenix Park, Dublin.