Beginner’s Guide to Slow Travel (2023) [Irish Premiere] | New Music Dublin 2024
April 28 / 3pm / National Concert Hall, Kevin Barry Recital Room / €17.50 (Concession: €10)
How can we craft new ways to live, work and relate to our surroundings as the tangible impact of anthropogenic climate change accelerates? At a time when air travel no longer seems justifiable, leap with Dublin-based new music group Kirkos into this fascinating sonic and spatial exploration of slowness.
Beginner's Guide To Slow Travel was composed collaboratively by Sebastian Adams, Robert Coleman, Yseult Cooper Stockdale, Jane Hackett, Hannah Miller and Joan Somers Donnelly. Taking the logistics of their journeying during this project as a starting point, with the extra time, expense and change of internal rhythm those logistics called for, these adventurous experimentalists have created an absorbing work that folds together ideas of rest, energy transfer, collecting and reusing, interspecies entanglement and collective grief.
Additional elements of this piece, including artistic documentation of the journey to the festival, will gradually become available at kirkosensemble.com/beginners-guide
An Evening of Earthly DelightsApril 30 / 8pm / Unit 44 / 10€
Prepare for an experimental cabaret evening of intrigue, laughter, controversy and fascination for your delights. Sean Bell’s Dowland Downloaded and Mr. Garagely are on tour in April/May 2024. They will explore reality and fiction across Ireland, Norway, UK and The Netherlands. For each night the two are complemented with a local act, creating an experimental dadaist cabaret of variety. For Unit 44 and Dublin they join the stage with Covers Blown.
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synthetic memoryMay 4 @3pm to May 5 @3am / Unit 44 / Free entry
12 hour long concert exploring drone through the lens of feedback and digital ephemera.
Artists / Performers: Organ Tapes, Thom Dehli, Eamon Ivri, Dj Powerbutton, Rory Sweeney, E The Artist, Job Frieling, Reflekta, Nina Fitzgerald Graham, Orin Green
Ireti — NikNakMay 9 / 7pm / Unit 44 / 5-10€
Step into the afrofuturistic world of Ireti.
NikNak performs her new album live with special guest Tadhg K! For fans of Ghost In The Shell, Akira and more, this is for you... Get ready to step inside a whole new world as award-winning artist NikNak invites you to experience live the world of Ireti, her brand new album on Accidental Records...
Dressing & McEvoy/MaguireMay 11 / 8pm / Unit 44
Dublin's Dressing (Kevin Kirwan) presents a rare set of his sparse, textural noise; Aonghus McEvoy and Phil Maguire perform improvised guitar and synthesiser..