Name: Culture File: Enda Walsh and Cillian Murphy's Ballyturk by Soundsdoable / Culture File
Duration: 7 min 13 s
Description: The writer and actor tag team on entering the cloud of unknowing for their latest colab, Ballyturk, a co-production between Galway International Arts Festival and Landmark Productions which opens at the Festival this summer.

The writer and actor tag team on entering the cloud of unknowing for their latest colab, Ballyturk, a co-production between Galway International Arts Festival and Landmark Productions which opens at the Festival this summer.

Culture File: Enda Walsh and Cillian Murphy's Ballyturk

Ireland and Ecocriticism is a conference looking at the growth area not just of eco-criticism, but of Irish ecocriticism. (Part 1 of 3)

Culture File: Ireland and Ecocriticism

Pelagic Dreamscape (2023) - WDR Sinfonieorchester

Laura Raicovich | Manifestations of Neutrality

Tannhäuser

This is one of my favourite pieces of classical music of all time (and as someone who isn't an avid listener, that's saying something!) There's something so powerful and emotive about this piece and whilst listening to it on a film soundtrack and subsequently after purchasing it, I felt compelled to arrange and produce this remix. It won't be to everyone's taste, that's for sure, but I love how its beauty is transcendent and even as I take it in a direction associated with 2-Step, breakbeat and bass music, it retains its power simply because of what was penned and played in the first place. I hope you enjoy it, and if you do, please share it! 



Trois Gymnopedies No. 1 (Dr. J Remix) - Anne Queffélec [FREE DOWNLOAD]

ee right here we go! some tracks and sketches from the last few months. this one marks my 5th annual production mix, and it's an XL edition. 

1.5ish hours of new music, all moods. built through turbulence + forged in feeling. 

really hope you enjoy 🌸🤞🏿

anz - sackville street stomp
anz - lunar spiral
anz - sisi eko
anz - couch to 50k (dance mat mix)
anz - chaotic good
anz - sweet one
anz - dancefloor recalibration
anz - organic matter
anz - unravel in the designated zone
anz - stay a while
anz - in session
anz - the prospector
anz - morphing into brighter
anz - tripper's tip
anz - stone groove
anz - giant's leap
anz - speedway
anz - DMPA
anz - halved and doubled
anz - odogwu (akoni ukg)
anz - 3 quid for the wheel
anz - do right by you!
anz - double dutch
anz - iinstructions includedd
anz - the twist
anz - dream sequence
anz - 4 til eternity
anz - oshun
anz - glass gloss (ryd vocal version)
anz - GT mover
anz - rrrenegade
anz - all outta shape
anz - first one back
anz - composure
anz - here's where she returns

artwork by patrick savile (central woodblock print = morning at the hot spring resort in arayu by hasui kawase)

Anz - Spring/Summer Dubs 2020

The Hands of Franky Machine is an hour-long audio drama written and narrated by Cursed Murphy – aka writer and musician Peter Murphy – with an original score by drummer, composer and Basciville member Lorcan Byrne.
Conceived as a movie for the ears, set in a gritty near-future cityscape, it tells the story of Franky Machine, a drum-battler who makes her living competing in the clubs, and her twin brother Sonny, an injured army veteran struggling with a street drug habit. Franky's days as a battler are numbered: a corporate multimedia entity named Eurika has successfully lobbied to patent all existing musical notation – the ultimate pay-to-play – and its lawyers are sending legal threats. Franky’s dilemma: what happens when the thing you were born to do starts killing you? What happens when your gift becomes a curse?
The Hands of Franky Machine is a love letter to 1950s noir (the title is a nod to Nelson Algren's The Man With the Golden Arm); to Lou Reed's 1970s downtown romances; to cyberpunk writers like William Gibson and John Shirley; to movies like Blade Runner and Kathryn Bigelow's 90s cult classic Strange Days.
“The story is set about five minutes into the future,” Peter says. “The subplot involving Eurika's algorithms was inspired by an online remark made by Cillian Byrne from Basciville, and Sonny's experiences in the veteran hospital were drawn from an interview I did with Henry Rollins about his experiences as a USO performer. I've been fascinated with drummers since I was a kid, and I wanted to write a sort of homage to manga heroines and comic characters like Halo Jones, to the riot grrrl movement and musicians like Joan Jett and Sheila E and Kira from Black Flag. And Lorcan is the only musician I know who could have conjured this world.”
The Hands of Franky Machine was scored, arranged and recorded over a ten-day period in August 2020 in the National Opera House, Wexford, thanks to a Covid-19 Crisis Response Award from the Arts Council of Ireland. Dan Comerford tech-supervised the sessions, as well as directing an eight-minute performance clip and a short documentary film. Tom Bates (Saolan Productions) operated second camera. Sinéad Furlong conducted research and interviews. Artist and film-maker Mirona Mara contributed the intro voice-over, while Maria Byrne provided the graphic novel-inspired cover image. The complete 60-minute audio-drama was recorded live in eight movements, vocals and drums together, with a minimum of overdubs, and is designed to be experienced in one continuous sitting, like a film or a play.

The Hands of Franky Machine was produced with the support of a Covid-19 Crisis Response Award from the Arts Council of Ireland. Thanks also to Wexford Arts Department and the National Opera House.

The Hands of Franky Machine

Composer, Jennifer Walshe has been back on the road as a travelling musician, discovering another way of life significantly altered.

Jennifer Walshe's Pandemic Diary | Culture File

Galway’s sovereign prophet, The Curly Organ asks a few friends to submit their ideas about how to improve Christmas. With music from (mostly) local artists.


Playlist

The Spirit Is Near - Devendra Bahnhart
Santa Claus is Coming to Town - Joseph Spence
Piranhas of Christmas - Jinx Lennon
Oh My Love -New Pope
Don’t Lose a Stone for Christmas - Jinx Lennon
Oh Holy Night
Nollaig Bhán - Lasairfhiona Ni Chonaola
Merry Christmas, Everyone - Givamanakick
In The Future - Burning Hell
Lookin’ Out My Backdoor - Creedence Clearwater Revival

Cairn I - Landless
Seanóirí Naofa - Tau and The Drones of Praise
Jingle Bells (Psy-Trance remix) - Fared
Winter Wonderland - Willie Nelson
Walking In The Air - The Anti-Social Club
Walking In The Air - Aled Jones

	
Alone - Mongoose
Bundle Up- Muirreann Anna
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - Doctor Millar
Ubi Caritas, Et Amor; Ubi Caritas; Deus Ibi Est - Ciara and Her Ma
This Christmas, I am Grateful - Tracy Friel





Special Thanks to…

Olive Waldron, Brian Vincent May (Feather and Stone), Marta Barcikowska (Ah Sure, Look It), Lara Foy, Dan Colley, Katya Radovanova, Steven Bennett (Comedian), Molly O’Mahony (Singer), Declan O’Brien, Tracy Bruen (SingerSongwriter), Muirreann Anna (Mongoose, band), Mark McConville (Rodney Owl), Irma Mento, Ginger Aaron, Tracy Friel.  Elena Juzgado (Artist) for their contributions.

The Curly Organ Podcast III - Christmas

Dhá chluiche mhór ar an Domhnach agus cluichí craobha an AFC agus NFC ar súil. Bhí na saineolaithe Emmet Ryan agus Naoise Waldron linn chun iad a phlé.

Culture File: Enda Walsh and Cillian Murphy's Ballyturk

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