In this episode of the IMRO Podcast, we report back from the Music Current Festival 2024.

Music Current is an annual contemporary music festival produced by Dublin Sound Lab, and taking place in the Project Arts Centre and Contemporary Music Centre in Temple Bar. The festival showcases contemporary Irish and new international electronic music as well facilitating workshops, professional development classes and public panel discussions.

This years festival took place in April and Danny Carroll spoke to some of the people involved as well as doing a bit of interactive volunteering.

Over the course of the next half hour we will hear from  the festival director Fergal Dowling, the Irish sound artist and performer Lara Gallagher, and Pieter Mathhynssens, the co-artistic director of Nadar Ensemble, a Belgian contemporary music ensemble, that Danny performed with during the festival.

0:00 - Danny Carroll intro

1:18 - Fergal Dowling Interview

7:40 - Lara Gallagher Interview

15:45 - Nadar Ensemble rehearsal and interview with Pieter Mathhynssens

Featured music:

Tak Ensemble - Mouthpiece 28 (composed by Erin Gee) and featured on the Oor:

Eryk Salvaggio - Flowers Blooming Backwards Into Noise:

Lara Gallagher - Leap Of Foals

Nadar Ensemble - Drie (rehearsal audio) - composed by Serge Verstockt

Lara Gallagher - https://laragallagher.art/
Nadar Ensemble - https://nadarensemble.be/
Music Current - https://www.musiccurrent.ie/2024/