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Mo’ broadband, mo’ problems. Philip McMahon dabbles in the mysterious offline world.

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The ultimate bibliophile’s band and the ultimate band of bibliophiles: The Bookshop Band

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Magnetic dogs and the Great Wall of China hove into view as we continue our walk ‘n’ talk with David Evans, editor of The Art of Walking: A Field Guide. (Part 2 of 2)

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Fancy a stroll with David Evans, author of The Art of Walking, a look at bipedal motion in fine art? Sure, of course you can bring the dog. (Part 1 of 2)

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You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to be in an orchestra…unless it’s Nelly Ben Hayoun’s International Space Orchestra, made up of musicians from NASA, SETI and other et-friendly organisations.

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Tobias Rehberger and Nikolaus Hirsch, curators of IMMA’s I KnOw YoU show on how not everything that comes from Frankfurt is about the doh ray mi.

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Talking pachyderms and pencils on a walk in Dublin Zoo with illustrator, Kevin Waldron.

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Over the years, there’s been a fair bit of bad press and prejudice…about leeches. But Robert Kirk and Neil Pemberton are ready to do a little PR work for our thirsty companions.

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Playwright and producer, Phillip McMahon, on why we are almost always expecting too much from a night at the theatre.

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Meet the man fighting for everyone’s right to do exactly the sort of things that the music and film industries have spent years and millions of dollars trying to prevent, Rick Falkvinge, founder of Sweden’s Pirate Party.

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We go Skypeabout to Ireland’s independent bookshops, to hear about staff picks and local blockbusters.

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The Unexamined Life is not worth living, but how deep would you like the examination to go? Prof Aisling Kelliher on recent advances in reading the biometric runes.

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Oslo’s all-women vocal group, Trio Mediaeval, on that not-as-popular-as-it-used-t0-be vocal art, cow-calling, as well as working with Gavin Bryers.

More from http://www.musicnetwork.ie/ and indeed http://www.triomediaeval.no/

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In our final report from this Spring’s Opera Europa conference in Vienna, David McLoughlin of Wexford Opera Festival helps us catch ‘n’ fillet the conference trends.

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We meet Philip Glass and the team preparing his new opera, The Lost, which opens the world’s newest opera house, Austria’s Landestheater Linz. (Part 3 of 4)

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The second of Luke Clancy’s reports from the Opera Europa conference in Vienna. How do Deloitte measure European opera’s worth? In Euros, largely. But not exclusively, explains the consultant’s Ana Andueza. (Part 2 of 4)

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How can elderly giants like La Scala operate in the world of 21st century opera? Our first report from this year’s Opera Europa meeting in Vienna. (Part 1 of 4)

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Can Bongoflava, the very particular strain of hiphop hothoused in Tanzania, conquer Africa - and the world? (Part 3 of 3)

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Deeper into a lost arc of muziki wa dansi, with legendary Tanzanian deejay, Massoud Massoud, and the team trying to save a musical treasure. (Part 2 of 3)

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“Sticky Shed Syndrome” and other threats to the precious collections of reel to reel tapes in the Radio Tanzania archives. (Part 1 of 3)

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Veteran potter and former Creative Director of the Leach Pottery, Ulster-born, Jack Doherty, on what a pot can really say.

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Daniel Reardon on Beckett’s All That Fall, and the best way to bring a radio play to the live stage.

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Adding drama to the portrait session, in the performance work of Dublin artist, Fergus Byrne.

The piece is performed at Project as part of the performance season Between You, Me And The Four Walls, curated by Michelle Browne. More info here

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Examining the legacy of 60s counterculture while making art from the things that the everyday folks leave behind, with Dublin-based Liverpudlian artist, Richard Proffitt

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"Artisan" comics publisher, Sam Arthur, co-founder of NoBrow, on the special pleasures of traditional printing

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Susan Zelouf of “haute couture” furniture makers, zelouf+BELL, on her journey from a club singer to creator of one-off, no-expense-spared design treasures.

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Brilliant, dazzling, scintillating…some of the words that unavoidably turn up as Luke Clancy reviews a show of plugged-in and turned-on, lighting-based art at Hayward Gallery, London.

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Grim and grimmer: students at The Lir and RIAM see just how dark opera gets, on their collaboration with director, Gavin Quinn, Opera Briefs.

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Sound branding guru, John Groves, on the power of sound in selling. (RPT)

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Dublin singer songwriter Mumblin Deaf Ro makes a case for more pop songs about grief.

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Irish mag, GCN is the world’s longest running free gay magazine is celebrating its 25th birthday. Co-founder, Tonie Walsh on the life and times of GCN.

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Conducting prodigy, Killian Farrell on tackling Bach’s St Matthew’s Passion, simultaneously directing two adult choirs, a boys’ choir and the Orchestra of St. Cecelia. Killian, by the way, is 18.

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Tattooed-lady-turned-artist, Ariana Page Russell, on dermatographia, the skin condition which means her ‘ink’ is her own skin’s reaction to pressure.

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The Great Irish Dresser, caught in the wild by Sundance prize-winning “Irish Folk Furniture” director, Tony Donoghue

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Conrad Shawcross’ room at Light Show at the Hayward. The bit near the end where everything gets a bit wobbly is where I finally get all dizzy and fall over backwards.

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What colour is your hakuna matata? Disney Theatrical chief, Thomas Schumacher, on the birth of a leonine legend.

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Step inside what looks like an ordinary terraced house in Dublin’s Stoneybatter and you’ll find one of the capital’s most vital arts spaces, The Joinery.

More about The Joinery’s Fundit campaign

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Cliff Diving into the Atlantic and other inspirational moments, with glass artist, Michelle O’Donnell

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Welcome to youpop? From now on, homemade user videos of songs like Harlem Shake will contribute to a song’s position in Billboard’s Hot 100.

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Go ahead and judge a book by its cover…with the help of designer and illustrator Niall McCormack’s Irish book covers blog.

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From the Amazon jungle to the tables of Copenhagen’s Noma, Icelandic composer, Jóhann Jóhannsson, finds inspiration in farming and politics. (Part 2 of 2)

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How much do you really have to know about the IBM 1401 computer to enjoy the music of Jóhann Jóhannsson? (Part 1 of 2)

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Hacking music. Composer, Emma O’Halloran, on the premier of her work Cages, and why she sees a soldering iron in her future.

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Fail again, fail better! The surprisingly long history of the Epic Fail, with Mark O’Connell, author of a new study on our taste for bad art.

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Chasing Dublin’s lost rivers with artists, Ruth Clinton and Niamh Moriarty. The collaborative duo’s latest exhibition at Pallas Projects/Studios explores the city’s hidden currents. (Image from The Rivers of Dublin by Clair L. Sweeney, 1991)

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Seven storeys of fun at Newcastle’s Seven Stories, Britain’s National Centre for Children’s Book.(Part 2 of 2)

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Seven storeys of fun at Newcastle’s Seven Stories, Britain’s National Centre for Children’s Book. (Part 1 of 2)

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Does education need a Napster? Aisling Kelliher of Carnegie Mellon University on the world of MOOCs - or Massive Open Online Courses.

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The raw and uncut version (which doesn’t actually contain any swearing) of our interview with conductor and composer, Reinbert de Leeuw, including a digression into Louis Andriessen’s love of the Swingle Singers.

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Reinbert de Leeuw on the revolutionary times of 60s Amsterdam & the angry power of fellow “Nutcracker” Louis Andriessen’s De Staat.