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Music Current
Contemporary-music festival
‘I take the long view when it comes to value measured against time’
Me & My Money: Seamus Crimmins, chairman / artistic director of Irish Freemasons Young Musician of the Year Competition
Four music books chart unconventional lives in the industry
Influences and life moments behind the musicians from the ‘70s to ‘90s are revealed
Composer Max Marcoll: ‘AI is its own prison. My job is to break as many bars as I possibly can’
Music Current 2025: Max Marcoll has already used his work to tackle social imbalances and music as a tool of torture. Now the composer is addressing intellectual property and artificial intelligence
Music Current 2023: ‘I like improvising, because it’s the most natural way for me to be a musician’
Fergal Dowling, Izumi Kimura, Francis Heery and Natacha Diels on the appeal of this week’s Dublin festival of contemporary music
Building an audience for contemporary classical music
Recitals, workshops and the determinedly avant garde feature in Music Current festival
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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