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Culture File

Luke Clancy"s culture come-all-ye, featuring bright spots in music, performance, film, tv and art from Ireland and the world. Broadcast weekdays on Lorcan Murray"s Classic Drive and Saturdays at 6.30pm on RTÉ lyric fm.

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Culture File | Moshing, m'lord

Culture File ·

2025/05/07

Rachel Ní Bhraonáin reginites her award-winning dance-theatre take on the mosh and the moshers at Dublin Dance Festival; conductor Gabriel Crouch dives the fathomless depths of Jóhann Jóhannsson's enigmatic music-out-of-time choral work, Drone Mass; and Paddy Woodworth's latest book for the Naturalist's Bookshelf.

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0:47:06

The Culture File Debate: Quiet/Loud

Culture File ·

2025/04/23

Recorded live at New Music Dublin 2025 at the NCH in Dublin, the panel explores how creative practices engage with the quiet space of loud sound, as well as the roles of quiet/loud in the contemporary attention economy, with Paula Meehan, Siobhán Cleary, John Godfrey, and Christine Tobin.

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0:28:41

Culture File: Marnie Weber, Tadhg O'Sullivan, The...

Culture File ·

2025/04/19

Ghost bands and circus values, with LA artist, Marnie Weber; Tadgh O'Sullivan on art that never was; and an in-the-end surprisingly pleasant visit to Berlin's Disgusting Food Museum.

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0:28:33

Culture File: Rhythm of the Seasons, Stone Carving In...

Culture File ·

2025/04/05

Percussionist, James Larter reboots of the Four Season; the allure of ancient craft in New York; and Paddy Woodworth suggests a new old volume about New England as essential reading for today.

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0:08:51

The Blood of a Poet | Culture File

Culture File ·

2025/03/26

Veteran US cellist and improvisor, Erik Friedlander collaborates with live film score specialist, Matthew Nolan to create new music for Jean Cocteau's 1932 first venture into film.

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0:25:47

Berginald Rash | Culture File

Culture File ·

2025/03/22

At this year's New Music Dublin, American Irish clarinetist, Berginald Rash presents Bombast! his program of chamber music from contemporary Black and Latiné composers. He talks to Culture File about a fraunt moment for music and art in the United States, and beyond.

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0:29:13

Culture File: Politics of the Imagination, The Gee's...

Culture File ·

2025/03/22

Classical music and hiphop meet with a bang in Belfast composer, Anselm McDonnell's latest project; the textile stories of Gee's Bend, Alabama at a new show at IMMA; and a program of premiers of chamber music from Black and Latiné composers at next month's New Music Dublin.

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0:11:26

Ethan Iverson | Culture File

Culture File ·

2025/03/12

Pianist and composer, Ethan Iverson, formerly of The Bad Plus, on working solo, standards v hits, and the music of Igor Stravinsky. He plays The Cooler, Dublin on Friday March 14th, and Triskel, Cork on Saturday 15th.

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01:02:10

Thurston Moore Special (Podcast Only XXXL mix) |...

Culture File ·

2025/03/08

An extended version of our conversation with Sonic Youth co-founder and explorer at the furthermost limits of the sonic spectrum, Thurston Moore, on noise, improvisation, fascism and his new guitar suite based on cloud formations, which debuts at this year's New Music Dublin festival of contemporary music.

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0:29:01

Guthanna ar an gCnoc, Foteini Tryferopoulou, Nan Goldin

Culture File ·

2025/02/22

Composer, Eoghan Desmond on his nature-infused new work for Chamber Choir Ireland, Guthanna ar an gCnoc; Orit Gat on the slide shows, activism... and playlists of Nan Goldin; and satnav and cacti crash the soundworlds of Foteini Tryferopoulou.

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0:28:56

Culture File Presents: The Comfort Zone

Culture File ·

2025/02/14

Mulholland Drive: Anna Kornbluh ("Immediacy") joins Luke Clancy to wave Colm Tóibín off on a journey out of his comfort zone, and into David Lynch's mysterious, melancholic drift into Hollywood's dream machine/mincer.

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0:29:10

The Culture File Weekly 080225: The Square Tomato and...

Culture File ·

2025/02/07

Artist-farmer Lisa Fingleton's new exhibition takes its title from a sci-fi fruit: The Square Tomato; "corn smut" at The Third Kingdom mushroom-based restaurant in New York; and Paddy Woodworth finds a place for Olivia Laing on The Naturalist's Bookshelf.

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0:28:39

The Culture File Debate: Breath

Culture File ·

2025/01/31

The Culture File Debate on breath, from the need for breathable air to states of mind and body rooted in breath. Featuring IMMA's Mary Cremin; artist and climate change activist, Nina McGowan; Ireland's next Venice Biennale representative, Isabel Nolan; and Ian Robertson, co-director Global Brain Health Institute, TCD. (First broadcast 170924)

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0:28:45

The Culture File Weekly: Cicada Safari

Culture File ·

2025/01/24

A "double emergence" of two broods of periodical cicadas near Springfield, Illinois for the first time in more than 200 years inspired a band of sound recordists, musicians, poets, composers and entomologists to gather beneath the trees to listen, record and improvise with a trillion-piece orchestra of singing critters. (First broadcast 29/06/24)

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0:27:10

The Culture File Weekly: All the Rembrandts

Culture File ·

2025/01/17

In this special All-Rembrandt-All-The-Time edition, we're in Amsterdam to join in the Netherland's celebrations of the 350th Anniversary of Rembrandt Van Rijn. The Rijksmuseum puts on display every one of its Rembrandt holdings; a treasure through which curator and Rembrandt biographer Jonathan Bikker leads Culture File. (First broadcast 15/03/19)

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0:28:42

The Culture File Debate x Beta Festival

Culture File ·

2025/01/10

Recorded live at Beta Festival '24 in Dublin's Liberties, The Culture File Debate brings together artists Basil Al-Rawi and Conan McIvor, researcher Dr Autumn Brown and historian Ciaran Wallace to explore how we preserve and reimagine our cultural archives in a world of digital tools.

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0:28:48

The Culture File Weekly: Dublin's Hallelujah

Culture File ·

2024/12/20

Walking a few momentous blocks of Dublin on the scent of a constellation of chancers, charities, literal bigwigs, choristers and 18th century It Girls that somehow resulted in the Irish capital being the venue for the premiere of Handel's Messiah.

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The Fingal Mummers | Culture File

Culture File ·

2024/12/18

The Irish Institute of Music and Song in Balbriggan's "Pathway to the Well" offer children in North County Dublin experiences of Irish music and tradition, such as The Fingal Mummers, who recently brought their mischievous musical theatrics to the children of Balbriggan Educate Together.

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0:07:21

The Cloud of Unknowing | Culture File

Culture File ·

2024/12/17

Fairy tales, they're not just for kids you know, suggests Tadhg O'Sullivan in his latest Cloud of Unknowing.

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0:06:39

Wìngéd Muses: The Swift | Culture File

Culture File ·

2024/12/16

A taste of our forthcoming Culture File Debate: Wìngéd Muses, for which we asked some of our favourite writers—Orit Gat, Sara Baume, The Naturalist, Paddy Woodworth and John Banville—to speak to us about a bird they cherish. Here, John Banville puts in a good word for the Swift. Full program Dec 28th, 6.30pm, RTÉ lyric fm.

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