Karlheinz Stockhausen
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Computer love: Kraftwerk’s motorik beat was powered by a human heart
- Music
- May 9, 2020, 05:00
Wednesday’s announcement of the death of Florian Schneider (typically, the actual date he died remains a mystery) sent me down a listening rabbit-hole(...)

Why does Timothée Chalamet look as if he’s being buffeted on Lahinch beach?
- Film
- April 14, 2020, 14:37
When Denis Villeneuve signed up for one of pop culture’s great white whale hunts, he can’t have imagined the project would take on an emblematic quali(...)

New Music Dublin: A myriad of creative musical endeavours
- Music
- February 26, 2020, 05:00
There has been a lot of media kerfuffle about claims that going to the cinema counts as “a light workout”. The research was carried out by scientists (...)

Colin Currie: Navigating a tightrope of rhythm
- Music
- June 8, 2019, 05:00
“Depending on how you cut it,” Colin Currie says wittily, “percussion is one of the newest old instruments or the oldest new instrument in classical m(...)

Switched-On Bach: How a transgender synth pioneer changed music
- Music
- November 20, 2018, 05:00
Since its release 50 years ago, Switched-On Bach has been relegated to the realm of kitsch curiosity; blips and blops produced from tinkerings on prim(...)

New Music Dublin manages to kick up a storm
- Music
- September 26, 2018, 05:00
You just can’t envy John Harris, the director of the New Music Dublin festival. At the beginning of March the so-called Beast from the East and Storm (...)

Blurring the lines between speaking and singing
- Music
- April 11, 2018, 05:15
The human voice is everywhere in the world of music. Whole traditions and genres depend on it. Without it there would be no love songs, no choirs, no (...)

Can anything be salvaged from the New Music Dublin Festival?
- Music
- March 7, 2018, 05:15
Snow has been everywhere this last week and the New Music Dublin Festival was among the casualties. It can’t have been easy for festival director John(...)

‘Powder Her Face’, New Music Festival: the best in opera and classical music this week
- Music
- February 24, 2018, 05:00
Saturday, February 24th Powder Her Face National Opera House, Wexford, 8pm €30/€27, 053-9122144/1850-467372 and on tour to Kilkenny, Navan, (...)

The new director of New Music Dublin has his work cut out for him
- Music
- August 8, 2017, 15:34
The capital’s biggest new music bash, the New Music Dublin festival, has a new festival director in John Harris. He is a composer and is currently chi(...)