Music Current festival returns this April for another 5 days of pulsating new Irish and international music – with a defined focus on light and video [AI]:

Dublin Sound Lab’s Music Current festival returns this April with an outstanding dive into light, breath and video this year, as the annual five-day festival programme showcases some of the best Irish and international contemporary music makers. The festival will host 5 new concerts, Black Page Orchestra, Tak Ensemble, lovemusic collective and the return of Nadar Ensemble, as well as workshops on AI, electronic music and new composition, and more discussions that explore cutting edge new music and the future of music. The festival takes over its creative home space at Project Arts Centre, from April 2 – 6.

CONCERT - Thu 4 Apr: Blackpage Orchestra - DREAMWORK
Austrian new music group Black Page Orchestra who perform their Dream Work concert making their Irish debut. Described as “something like the punk band among Vienna's new music ensembles”, they are renowned for their bold and fearless approach to music commissioning, programming and performance, and they are well-established on the continental festival circuit. Black Page Orchestra present three works by composers closely associated with the ensemble – Mirela Ivicevic (Croatia), Matthias Kranebitter (Austria), and Vladimir Gorlinski (Russia) – as well as three new commissions written specially for this event, including a new work by Peter Ablinger (Austria), perhaps one of the most recognisable and poetic voices in contemporary music, and two new Black Page Orchestra commissions by Irish composers Amanda Feery and Fergal Dowling.