Ready for launch: Mark O’Connell and Jennifer Walshe on Mars, their new collaboration
Galway International Arts Festival stages the premiere of an Irish opera in which four women astronauts embark on a Martian voyage
Jennifer Walshe
OpenAI’s short story about grief has critics in floods of tears or outrage. They’re all missing the point
Judging this story as I’d judge a short story published in The Stinging Fly or the Winter Papers is the wrong approach to take. Reading AI-generated stories demands a new type of literacy
Irish composer Jennifer Walshe on AI music: ‘If you came up with the idea for I Glued My Balls to My Butthole Again, is that art?’
The Oxford professor of composition’s long use of artificial intelligence in her work makes her a good judge of its merits and its dangers
Oscailt review: Improvisatory and sometimes chaotic sound world feels almost documentary
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: Jennifer Walshe’s high-octane music is a mixture of what’s written down, what’s improvised and live digital manipulation
Centenary of turning point in Irish history to be marked
1922 World Congress of the Irish Race announced the Free State to the world
Get a musical fix with 20 Shots of Opera
Irish National Opera commissioned 20 short operas that were composed and quickly produced for video
Twelve artists elected to Aosdána
Association honours new members in artforms such as writing, drama, dance and film
Karlin Lillington: Ireland spent months discussing pubs but not arts venues
Online innovation should benefit arts industry when Covid-19 pandemic recedes
Kirkos Ensemble: Bringing a whole new meaning to ‘outsider’ music
The Biosphere Project is a sonic adventure outdoors, says co-director Sebastian Adams
New Music Dublin festival breaks fresh ground
Unusual ambience and myriad external intrusions fails to derail eclectic artistry
Putting Irish-language songs centre stage
The Irish Language Art Song Project: its promotion of Irish music is nonpareil
The best classical music to see this week
The Irish Language Art Song Project , the next in NSO’s Bruckner series and pianist Simon Trpceski
Three classical concerts to see this week
Hansel and Gretal the opera, work by women composers and celebrating Beethoven
NCH’s chamber music series offers flexibility amid closure uncertainty
Collaboration part of long tradition of composers coming together with mixed results
Aosdána functions as way of hiding fact that arts funding is shamefully low
If sector was funded to level of European norm there would be no need for allowances
An all-female composer programme? Sounds great
Recent concerts have provided persuasive proof-of-concept demonstrations
Past tension: the eternal battle between old and new music
There was nothing wrong with the New Music Dublin Festival – just its name
‘Men just get away with being composers. We have to do this activism and keep composing’
Irish-born opera composer Jennifer Walshe on scores, made-up history and globalisation
Let the lute one in: this week’s classical highlights
Lutenist Nigel North is the cuckoo in the nest at the NCH’s International Guitar Series
2019 cultural highlights: You’ll laugh, you’ll picnic, you’ll plough
The best music, theatre, comedy, film and spoken word in the coming year
Ropes, plants, baths and other musical instruments
Classical music highlights for this week include Kirkos’s Body Noise Work project
The classical music sandwich: delicious, nutritious and necessary
Classical Music: Concerts that intersperse classics with new pieces can be revelatory
Evolution of women composers a missing link in new concert series
Why does the NCH need €20,000 before it will bother exploring music by women?
Composer Siobhán Cleary opens Arts Council can of worms
Council scheme is set up in a way that cannot deal with idea of ‘equal pay for equal work’
Schubert dip and Caesar salad: Classical and opera treats this week
Schubert: Dreaming the Sublime, Giulio Cesare, and Rediscovering Irish State Musick
The best art shows to catch this weekend
From Enda Walsh’s ‘Bathroom’ to Voyager’s deep space odyssey, there’s plenty to ponder
Celebration of Irish composers neglects women and living composers under 30
Composing the Island festival is huge, but it neglects women and living composers under 30
The sound of sadness permeates musical commemorations of the Rising
Sorrow and loss continue to hold us in greater thrall than the idea of a new order in the offing
The gloss and gutsiness of West Cork Chamber Music Festival
In Bantry, musical depth was lost in the Cremona Quartet’s approach, whereas Alina Ibragimova did Bach justice
A fantastic early history of the Irish avant-garde
What, you haven’t heard of Zaftig Giolla or the Guinness Dadaists? Let Jennifer Walshe enlighten you
The shock of the New Music Dublin
A fascination with music of an experimental hue was evident in this programme
Monopoly shake-up? John Wilson muscles in on NSO’s patch
It is likely to be to everyone’s benefit if the two RTÉ orchestras are allowed to compete on the same terrain
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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