6.00-6.30pm: Sharon Phelan (Carolan Room)

6.40-7.10pm; Kevin Murphy (The Studio)

7.20-7.50pm: Oval Orbs (Carolan Room)

8.00-8.35pm: 7of9 (The Studio)

8.45-9.15pm: Asa Nisi Masa (Carolan Room)

9.30-10.30pm: Autumns (The Studio)

CAROLAN ROOM

6-630pm: Sharon Phelan

Sharon Phelan is a Dublin-based artist, writer and musician specialising in digital media and sound. Her practice researches resonance and poetics of place, often in site-responsive and collaborative projects. Her ongoing project, Vocal Artefacts, explores ways of listening and expanded notions of voice through artistic research, field recordings and sound essays.

7.30-8.00pm: Oval Orbs

Oval Orbs is a Dublin based musician heavily inspired by DIY and LoFi sentiment.
During a live set they experiment with different combinations of effects pedals on top of drum machines and synths, sometimes modular, to create minimalistic and danceable sounds.

8.45-9.15pm: Asa Nisi Masa

Asa Nisi Masa is a Dublin-based DJ, producer and musician. His eclectic output jaggedly breaks down genre and dynamics. Lying somewhere between the dissonant and intimate, his eerie soundscapes are both emotive and visceral.

STUDIO

6.40-7.10pm: Kevin Murphy

Kevin Murphy is a cellist, multi-instrumentalist, composer and songwriter He is also a founding member of critically acclaimed Irish experimental bands Slow Moving Clouds, Seti The First and Blind Stitch. He has collaborated with Irish and international acts such as Jenny Lewis, Lisa Hannigan, The National, Bon Iver, Rick Danko, and Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode. He has co-composed several scores including Michael Keegan Dolan’s Swan Lake/Loch na Heala and Luke McManus’s North Circular (2022). The Metro show marks the launch of a new project based on alternative approaches to Irish traditional tunes and songs on the cello. He is accompanied by Thomas Haugh from Seti the First on Zithers, Percussion and Electronics and by Aki of Slow Moving Clouds on Nyckleharpa.

8.00-8.35pm: 7of9

7of9 duo of Osaro and Lizzie is the infusion of industrial pop with sulphuric-gore vocals seeping into your wanting earlobes. Osaro and Lizzie decided to get together for an exclusive show in 2022. Since that show the love for 7of9 has grown and it extended it's lifespan from a 'one show' performance to a fully fledged performance duo. Lizzie Fitzpatrick (aka coolgirl) has been making darkwave over the past few years under her own stage name and Osaro is a respected spoken word artist in the Dublin Art scene. The pair joined up to write hypnotic and abrasive art pop that is capturing the hearts of Irish audiences.

9.30-10.30pm: Autumns

Autumns is an outlet for electronic post-punk, fused with elements of dub and sound experimentation. The project showcases a love of whip-cracked rhythms, heavily effected vocals and no-wave guitars, processed through dub techniques within the mixing desk. An obsession with freak sounds leads to a high-intensity live show, using minimal equipment for maximum results.

After a brace of rough demos, the project emerged fully formed on Karl O'Connor's (aka Regis) label Downwards back in 2014, joining a vanguard of artists that includes Tropic of Cancer, Samuel Kerridge and British Murder Boys. Building on his continuous prolific journey with releases on Detriti, Death & Leisure and Opal Tapes, Autumns has taken the project to forms of dysfunctional metal dance, dubbed-out rhythms and DIY punk angst.

Autumns has also ventured outside the typical music world by taking up projects such as performing alongside Samuel Kerridge at the 2016 edition of Paris Fashion Week for Downwards, creating a sound installation at Void Gallery (2019) and improvising a desolate live score for David Lynch's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (2016). The need for musical exploration runs deep in the release of his shoegaze project with Kris Baha (2020) and the debut industrial dub collaboration with Oliver Ho (aka Broken English Club), Vacant Heads (2022).

Presented by NCH, Gash Collective, Homebeat and Matthew Nolan Music.