Culture File - RTÉ

Marise Gaughan Has Been Drinking

Mon, 13 Apr 2020 12:00:00 GMT

For her latest lockdown diary, comedian, Marise Gaughan has been thinking about drinking. And tbh, not just thinking about it

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Culture File Weekly100420: Jennifer Walshe, Ralph Rugoff, Marise Gaughan

Fri, 10 Apr 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Walk among the trees with Ralph Rugoff, curator of a mammoth exhibition of contemporary art inspired by trees, get comedian Marise Gaughan's hot take on enforced idleness, and hear the latest Lockdown Letter from London-based Irish composer, Jennifer Walshe

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Eleanor Flegg's 'Likes'

Fri, 10 Apr 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Writer and Culture File contributor, Eleanor Flegg shares some film, literature, music, tastes and smells to enjoy in lockdown

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Jennifer Walshe's London Lockdown Diary

Thu, 09 Apr 2020 12:00:00 GMT

In our latest lockdown diary, London-based Irish composer, Jennifer Walshe contemplates the language we use to describe our current crisis.

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Among The Trees with Mr Rugoff

Wed, 08 Apr 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Second leg of Culture File's walk Among The Trees with curator and writer, Ralph Rugoff. Rugoff's latest (now shuttered) show at London's Hayward Gallery looks at artists looking at trees, exploring how what the curator calls "tree culture" intersects with our own. (Part 2)

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Among The Trees with Mr Rugoff

Tue, 07 Apr 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Among The Trees, curator and writer, Ralph Rugoff's latest (now shuttered) show at London's Hayward Gallery, looks at artists looking at trees. The show is - perhaps not coincidentally - peppered with intimations of a planet on the brink of a calamity. (Part 1)

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Marise Gaughan's Guide For Idlers

Mon, 06 Apr 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Although 'doing nothing' is a by-product of social distancing for many, for comedian Marise Gaughan it has been a lifelong pursuit. Consequently, she's got lots of handy hacks for novice idlers.

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Sara Baume's 'Likes'

Fri, 03 Apr 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Skibbereen-based artist and author of Handiwork, Sara Baume on some of the culture that has been bringing her light in the darkness

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Culture File Weekly: Jennifer Walsh; Marise Gaughan; Aine Gallagher; Louise McMahon

Fri, 03 Apr 2020 12:00:00 GMT

This time we have lockdown diaries from Jennifer Walsh and Marise Gaughan; while Aine Gallagher visits an online gallery opening in Santa Monica and Louise McMahon hosts a Netflix watch party

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Ain't No Party Like A Netflix Watch Party

Thu, 02 Apr 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Watch Party is a suddenly-popular Netflix-aware app that lets isolated users throw watch parties where they can simulate watching tv with friends. Chill not included

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Jennifer Walshe's London Lockdown Diary

Wed, 01 Apr 2020 12:00:00 GMT

In our latest lockdown diary, the pages come from London-based Irish composer, artist and founder of the Aisteach archive, Jennifer Walshe

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Vernissages in The Time of Corona

Tue, 31 Mar 2020 12:00:00 GMT

There are plenty of shuttered galleries stepping up online access to their exhibitions for our lockdown planet. But what about that key aspect of the art world: exhibition openings. bG Gallery in Santa Monica, California, has one answer.

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Marise Gaughan's Epistle To The Isolated

Mon, 30 Mar 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Locked down and possibly cocooned on her boyfriend's parents farm in Co. Kilkenny, writer and comedian, Marise Gaughan contemplates the English, a man who might have been the pope, and a culinary betrayal

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Culture File Weekly: Marise Gaughan, Prof Aisling Kelliher, Xenia Pestova Bennett, Gongs Baths

Fri, 27 Mar 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Spend some time discovering how to perform the online equivalent of washing your hands properly with Prof Aisling Kelliher, why comedian Marise Gaughan always hated going for walks anyway, encountering the pimped out sounds of the magnetic resonator piano (MRP), and in the end, meet (social distance style) for a nice long soak in a gong bath.

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Culture File Likes: Michael O'Toole

Fri, 27 Mar 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Classical guitarist and author, Michael O'Toole shares some his favourite reading, listening, watching, eating and smelling pleasures

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Socially Distanced Gong Bathing

Thu, 26 Mar 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Culture File lies down with 30-odd other souls in a candlelit, plant-filled room, and takes a gong bath. Plus, instructions on having your own social-distanced gong bath at home

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Aisling Kelliher's Good Information Hygiene

Wed, 25 Mar 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Do hundreds of videos of household hacks online really provide the clever tips they suggest, or exist just to attract the clicks of the inexperienced? Prof Aisling Kelliher helps spot the DIY disinformation

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Xenia Pestova Bennett's Medicinal Magic Piano

Tue, 24 Mar 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Siberian pianist and composer, Xenia Pestova Bennett explains how the sounds of her Magnetic Resonator Piano might help to deal with anxiety

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Marise Gaughan Hates Going for Walks

Mon, 23 Mar 2020 12:00:00 GMT

In her latest audio epistle, comedian and writer, Marise Gaughan shares her deep misgivings about getting out and about

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The Daffodils (Remix)

Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:00:00 GMT

A timely spring hymn to the daffodils - and their pickers - with Dutch "conceptual choreographer" Edd Schouten.

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Sara Baume's Handiworld

Wed, 18 Mar 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Culture File visits the model-filled home of writer and assembler of handmade plaster objects, Sara Baume

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Forgotten Giants of Irish Music: Ludwig van Beethoven

Tue, 17 Mar 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Beethoven created a great trove of song settings, and though it's not always grasped, many of them derived from Irish traditional melodies.

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Culture File: Anne Wilson's Body Time

Mon, 16 Mar 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Chicago-based textile artist, Anne Wilson creates drawings and performances that explore private and social rituals and what she calls "body time".

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Culture File 'Likers': Carole Nelson

Fri, 13 Mar 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Eco-jazz composer and pianist, Carole Nelson's essential watching, listening, reading, smelling and tasting

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The Culture File Weekly 130320: The Art of Labour; Occupying the city; Pomes Penyeach and Instagram's celebrity plants

Fri, 13 Mar 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Joycean music with a new Pomes Penyeach song cycle, Danielle Child on how participatory art sometimes forgets about the participants, Aisling Kelliher on Instagram's charismatic flora and Jeanne Van Heeswijk on how art can save our cities

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Culture File: Danielle Child's Working Aesthetics @MAKE2020

Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Dr Danielle Child, whose looks at the relationship between art and work under contemporary capitalism, discovers how much even participatory art, with hundreds or thousands of collaborators, still clings to the idea of a single artistic genius at work

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Culture File: Famous Philodendrons

Wed, 11 Mar 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Tech soothsayer, Prof Aisling Kelliher on why plants, such as the Philodendron Pink Princess, are garnering the big likes and the top dollars

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Culture File: Jeanne Van Heeswijk

Tue, 10 Mar 2020 12:00:00 GMT

How inhabitants can learn to control their city and how it treats them is the concern of Dutch artist, Jeanne Van Heeswijk.

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Culture File: Pomes Pennyeach

Mon, 09 Mar 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Following in the footsteps of everyone from Sid Barret to Scullion, Adrian Crowley, Matthew Nolan, and friends are setting James Joyce to music

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Culture File 'Likes': Hillary Dziminski

Fri, 06 Mar 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Hillary Dziminski of Phibsborough theatre company, Corps Ensemble shares with us a few of her favourite things

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The Culture File Weekly 060320: Druid's Cherry Orchard; Carole Nelson's Arboreal; Marise Gaughan's reading habits; Subset's struggle

Fri, 06 Mar 2020 12:00:00 GMT

In Galway, Druid Theatre Company joins the likes of New York's Met in streaming their latest production live to cinemas; in Carlow, Carole Nelson is foraging for jazz inspiration; in Dublin, we hear the voices behind the spray cans of artist collective, Subsert and we edge along the bookshelf of comedian, Marise Gaughan

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Culture File: Harvesting The Cherries

Thu, 05 Mar 2020 12:00:00 GMT

This week, Galway's Druid Theatre company joined the likes of New York's Met and London's National Theatre in streaming their latest show (Tom Murphy's version of The Cherry Orchard) live to cinemas

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Culture File: Carole Nelson's Eco-Jazz

Wed, 04 Mar 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Composer and jazz pianist, Carole Nelson walks through her local woodland in South Co. Carlow inspired her new 'eco-jazz' album, Arboreal

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Culture File: First They Came For Stormzy...

Tue, 03 Mar 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Murals from artist collective, Subset have been one of the most visible additions to Irish streets in recent years. Love for their colourful creations is intense, but not universal

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Culture File: Catch and Kill

Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Writer and comedian, Marise Gaughan has been giving the kind of prolonged attention to Ronan Farrow's investigation into the Weinstein case that few volumes in her library receive

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Culture File x NMD2020 'Likes': Andreas Borregaard

Fri, 28 Feb 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Accordion virtuoso, Andreas Borregaard shares some of the his favourite movies, music, reading and scents

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The Culture File Weekly 270220: Úna Monaghan, Darragh Morgan, Diatribe records, Andreas Borregaard

Fri, 28 Feb 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Culture File's New Music Dublin special takes in composers from Bach to Walsh, gear from Baroque bows to MAX patches, and gigs from accordion-driven performance art to a marathon outing from Morton Feldman, as well as the launch of seven brand new albums from Diatribe records

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Culture File: Scifi Accordion

Thu, 27 Feb 2020 12:00:00 GMT

The future of the accordion, according to Danish virtuoso, Andreas Borregaard, will take in everything from Bach to Performance Art

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Culture File x NMD2020: Darragh Morgan

Wed, 26 Feb 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Violinist, Darragh Morgan on why "new music" isn't niche, as well as Zen and the art of Morton Feldman

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Culture File x NMD2020: Avenged Sevenfold

Tue, 25 Feb 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Nick Roth and Matthew Jacobson's Diatribe eclectic record label is releasing seven albums to coincide with New Music Dublin 2020

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Culture File x NMD2020: Úna Monaghan

Mon, 24 Feb 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Harpist and composer, Úna Monaghan is exploring traditional music with the help of her laptop

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Culture File 'Likes': Barry Adamson

Fri, 21 Feb 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Bassist, composer, actor and poly-mathematician, Barry Adamson is here to share some of his favourite sounds, sites, smells and tastes

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The Culture File Weekly 210220: Mardi Gras Indians; Bohemianised Phibsborough; disembodied voices and Irish Art Song

Fri, 21 Feb 2020 12:00:00 GMT

This week, we're preparing to parade with the Mardi Gras Indians down in New Orleans; attending pub theatre in Bohemianised Phibsborough; discovering the enduring power of disembodied voices with Eoghan Nolan and reminding ourselves about the words and music of the Irish Art Song Project

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Culture File: Big Chief Kevin's Fat Tuesday

Thu, 20 Feb 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Irish filmmaker, Moira Tierney on the rich, complex tradition of New Orleans' Mardi Gras Indians

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Culture File: Tionscadal na nAmhrán Ealaíne Gaeilge, Arís

Wed, 19 Feb 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Da´irine Ni´ Mheadhra's latest project adds 50 new entries to the once sparse repertoire of Art Song in the Irish language (Redux)

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Culture File: A Slightly Unreasonable Point of View 2.5

Tue, 18 Feb 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Eoghan Nolan on the unworldly staying power of disembodied voices

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Culture File: Bohemian Phibsborough

Mon, 17 Feb 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Dublin theatre group, Corps Ensemble finds a new home above a Phibsborough pub with a bohemian history

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Culture File: Barry Adamson's Sound Pictures

Thu, 13 Feb 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Bass guitarist and film composer, Barry Adamson on learning to love bass, working with difficult frontmen and making sound pictures

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Culture File: Down On The Colour Farm (Part 2)

Wed, 12 Feb 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Artist, environmentalist and farmer, Nicola Brown, wants to teach the world to love natural plant dyes and sustainable fabrics

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Culture File: Down On The Colour Farm (Part 1)

Tue, 11 Feb 2020 12:00:00 GMT

On a farm in Co. Carlow, Nicola Brown has planted everything she needs to create a new generation of natural inks and dyes

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Culture File: Marise Guaghan Hearts Valentines

Mon, 10 Feb 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Comedy person and writer, Marise Gaughan is no soulless killjoy when it comes to the feast of anonymous cards / Insta-ready grand romantic gestures, that is Valentine's Day

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The Culture File Weekly 070220: Dave Flynn, The Bruckner Problem, Glasshouse

Fri, 07 Feb 2020 12:00:00 GMT

This time, Irish composer, Dave Flynn has some essays at unravelling The Bruckner Problem and we meet the young Dublin ensemble Glasshouse, who may or may not be the 21st-century incarnation of a show band

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Culture File 'Likes': Tara Erraught

Fri, 07 Feb 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Dundalk vocal star, Tara Erraught shares some of the reading, listening, watching, eating and smelling she has been savouring.

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Culture File: Glasshouse

Thu, 06 Feb 2020 12:00:00 GMT

The founders of Dublin post-classical ensemble, Glasshouse on new music, new venues and a new world of cello

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Culture File: Los Paddys

Wed, 05 Feb 2020 12:00:00 GMT

What began in 2012 as an ethnographic project has since grown into Los Paddys, a seven-piece music-and-dance act creating a unique Clare blend of Irish and South American sounds

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Culture File: How Do You Solve A Problem Like Anton? (Part 2)

Tue, 04 Feb 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Composer, Dave Flynn's journey into The Bruckner Problem turns apocalyptic with a look at version control in Anton Bruckner's Symphony No 8. (Part 2 of 2)

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Culture File: How Do You Solve A Problem Like Anton? Composer and Memory Orchestra-founder, Dave Flynn has a crack at solving "The Bruckner

Mon, 03 Feb 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Composer and Memory Orchestra-founder, Dave Flynn has a crack at solving "The Bruckner Problem" - sniffing out the "truest" versions of Austrian composer, Anton Bruckner's symphonies. (Part 1 of 2)

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The Culture File Weekly 310120: Caroline Bergvall, Tara Erraught, Terri Hooley and Eoghan Nolan

Fri, 31 Jan 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Poet and performer, Caroline Bergvall scouts Galway, European Capital of Culture for her Ragadawn performance, Tara Erraught finds the right ways to worry about your voice, Terri Hooley plans his rock 'n' roll victory lap, and Eoghan Nolan wonders about the value of remote working

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Culture File 'Likes': Deirdre O'Mahoney

Fri, 31 Jan 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Artist, Deirdre O'Mahoney shares some of her likes in books, films, music, food, and scents

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Culture File: Terri Hooley's Goodbye Vibrations

Thu, 30 Jan 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Belfast punk kingmaker and Good Vibrations records founder, Terri Hooley prepares for a victor lap on the decks

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Culture File: Tara Erraught's Vocal Wellness

Wed, 29 Jan 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Strep throat is almost the least that singers have to worry about. There are nodules too, and anxiety, and adrenalin. Plus all that music to learn on top. Mezzo-soprano, Tara Erraught aims to help at her vocal wellness boot camp, Celebrating the Voice

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Culture File: Caroline Bergvall's Ragadawn

Tue, 28 Jan 2020 12:00:00 GMT

For our first visit to Galway in its year as European Capital of Culture, we join Caroline Bergvall scouting locations for her daybreak performance, Ragadawn

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Culture File: A Slightly Unreasonable Point of View 2.3

Mon, 27 Jan 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Everything Samuel Taylor Coleridge knew about the drawbacks of working from home, according to Eoghan Nolan

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Culture File 'Likes': Amanda Feery

Fri, 24 Jan 2020 12:00:00 GMT

A few of composer and Kate Bush superfan, Amanda Feery's favourite things...

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The Culture File Weekly 240120: Kerry Hagan, Kristyn Fontanella, Blackwater Babble, Old English verse

Fri, 24 Jan 2020 12:00:00 GMT

This weekly, a singer's journey along the Blackwater with Broken Crow theatre company, composing electronic music the open source way with Kerry Hagan, finding the sounds of ancient poetry at TCD, and reforming Irish dance with Kristyn Fontanella

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Culture File: Kristyn Fontanella In Limbo

Thu, 23 Jan 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Former champion Irish dance artist turned contemporary dance artist, Kristyn Fontanella on straight leg leaps, TikTok tutorials and the joy on the dancefloor.

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Culture File: Lost Sounds & Silent Languages

Wed, 22 Jan 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Alice Jorgensen quest to reconstruct the sound - and emotions - of an almost lost language (Remix)

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Culture File: Kerry Hangan's PD

Tue, 21 Jan 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Composer and programmer, Kerry Hagen runs "patching circles" for the musical software Pure Data, an open-source tool that aims to let composers use sophisticated electronics in their work - without calling tech support

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Culture File: Blackwater Babble

Mon, 20 Jan 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Broken Crow Theatre's homage to, among other things, Irish pub culture and the singsong is coaxed out of the sung and onto stages around the country

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The Culture File Weekly 170120: Dublin Inquirer, Deirdre O’Mahony, Myriam Riand, Paul Dwan, Amanda Feery)

Fri, 17 Jan 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Highlights and extras from the week's Culture File, with deep mapping of the woods at Lismore, a festival in Doolin that aims to aid musicians building a career from rural Ireland, under the bonnet of Beethoven's late quartets and the new spirit of journalism.

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Culture File 'Likes': Bryan O'Connell

Fri, 17 Jan 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Drummer and performer, Bryan O'Connell on the things that make him go 'Bravo!'

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Culture File: Money? Don't let money stand in your way...

Thu, 16 Jan 2020 12:00:00 GMT

In this moment of media turbulence, the Dublin Inquirer has an idea to create a new relationship between newspapers, readers and money...

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Culture File: Mapping The Forest

Wed, 15 Jan 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Can we get out of the woods by going into the woods? Artist, Deirdre O’Mahony's latest project investigates the forests around Lismore in search of a new sense of place

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Culture File: Doolin's Music Minds

Tue, 14 Jan 2020 12:00:00 GMT

The Music Minds Festival in Doolin serves up music, but also classes and talks on mastering, promotion, software, marketing, and design - anything a musician might need to launch a career from rural Ireland

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Culture File: Even Later Quartets

Mon, 13 Jan 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Composer, Amanda Feery looks under the bonnet of Beethoven's late quartets for her 21st-century work, From Ashes

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The Culture File Weekly 100120: Maxim Vengerov and Patrick Rafter

Fri, 10 Jan 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Behind the scenes at the NCH Dublin, with perhaps the world's greatest violinist, Maxim Vengerov and his Kilkenny-born star protegee, Patrick Rafter as the pair prepare to take on Bach's Double Violin Concerto. (Repeat)

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The Culture File Weekly 030120: Munich

Fri, 03 Jan 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Culture File returns to the Bavarian capital, busily e-scootering between the gargantuan works of sculptor, El Anatsui at the Haus Der Kunst; the Odeonsplatz to sample a new sound technology being tried out by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and to the odd green hills above the Olympiapark for some quiet time with a yoga sound art project.

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The Culture File Weekly 271219: All the Rembrandts, srsly.

Fri, 27 Dec 2019 12:00:00 GMT

In this special All-Rembrandt-All-The-Time edition, we travel to Amsterdam to join in the Netherland's celebrations of the 350th Anniversary of Rembrandt Van Rijn. For the event, the Rijksmuseum put on display every one of its Rembrandt holdings - a treasure through which curator and Rembrandt biographer, Jonathan Bikker leads Culture File.

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Culture File Likes (and Dislikes)

Mon, 23 Dec 2019 12:00:00 GMT

For our last program before the reckoning, we're hearing about some of the best and worst Christmas presents some of our guests have ever received.

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Culture File: Music In The Irish Mode

Thu, 19 Dec 2019 12:00:00 GMT

Unpicking the spell of The Wexford Carol, an uncanny sonic apparatus that's snared performers from Julie Andrews to Yo-Yo Ma - and even a few Irish musicians

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Culture File: Bruce Flegg Sings Again

Wed, 18 Dec 2019 12:00:00 GMT

Eleanor Flegg dusts off an old box stuffed with 78s recorded by her grandfather, opera singer, Bruce Flegg

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Culture File: D8 Souls

Tue, 17 Dec 2019 12:00:00 GMT

It's not quite Ireland's answer to the Wigan Casino, but D8 Soul Club is a magnet for the island's dancing soul fans - and the odd mature mod

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Culture File: How Did We Get Here?

Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:00:00 GMT

Curator, Merve Elveren has been working at Istanbul's SALT archive, finding the material culture that tells a hidden story of modern Turkey's trauma

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Culture File 'Likes': Finghin Collins

Fri, 13 Dec 2019 12:00:00 GMT

Pianist and director of Galway 2020's classical music program, Finghin Collins on some of the things that spark joy

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The Culture File Weekly 131219: The Hydrean, Marise Gaughan, Bryan O'Connell, Danielle Clarke

Fri, 13 Dec 2019 12:00:00 GMT

This week, a lesson in the rhythm method of Can drummer, Jaki Leibezeit, a shiny golden tool designed to help us see the world anew, comedian, Marise Gaughan, on the potential healing power of standup, and a flick through the cookbooks of old Eireann.

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Culture File: Enduring Recipes Redux

Thu, 12 Dec 2019 12:00:00 GMT

Uncovering the lives of women in Early Modern Ireland, via recipe collections, with Prof Danielle Clarke

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Culture File: Marise Gaughan's Still Processing

Wed, 11 Dec 2019 12:00:00 GMT

Comedian Marise Gaughan, on trying to understand trauma and dating troubles via standup

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Culture File: Jaki Leibzeit's Secrets of Rhythm

Tue, 10 Dec 2019 12:00:00 GMT

Irish drummer, Bryan O'Connell, on cult Can drummer, Jaki Leibzeit and his musical journeys.

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Culture File: The evolution of rosary beads?

Mon, 09 Dec 2019 12:00:00 GMT

The Hydrean, an object that choreographer, Michael Klein designed to help dancers prepare, becomes a new tool for connecting with ourselves and the world about us.

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Culture File "Likes":

Fri, 06 Dec 2019 12:00:00 GMT

Russian theatre director, Kat Soloviev on a some of the music, podcast, tastes and scents that bring joy.

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