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DIAL (Chapter 5: May) live at Kirkos

Join us on Thursday 1 May 2025 at the brand new Kirkos venue in central Dublin (1 Little Green Street, Dublin 7) for a 60 minute performance from Chapter 5: May of my durational writing project DIAL, with sonic interventions from Joanna Mattrey, Nick Roth and Keith Lindsay.

A live, semi-improvised cross-disciplinary collaboration featuring spoken text, viola, saxophone, and electronics with live radio feedback & looped sounds.


DIAL is a durational-procedural-aleatory work of poetic prose I composed through real-time, automatic transcriptions of spoken language from a different radio station broadcasting anywhere in the world, performed each and every day over the entire calendar year 2021 and linked seamlessly with short pieces of 'original' text I wrote contemporaneously. The composition of DIAL was enabled by a PLATFORM 31 award.

Kirkos is an experimental music ensemble & DIY venue/rehearsal space and artist studios.

Doors 7.30pm / Performance 8pm
Tickets: Pay What You Can (€5 suggested donation)
Booking Required: BOOK YOUR TICKET HERE

This performance from Chapter 5 of DIAL will be one of the first events at Kirkos' highly anticipated new venue, which opens just a few days earlier. It's my third collaboration with Kirkos, following the 'Proper Chocolate' project and performance in early March 2020 at their Dublin City Council Incubation Space, and the 'INTERFERENCE' event in December 2022 at their previous space, Unit 44.

DIAL, in its entirety standing at around 125,000 words, remains unpublished in text form. Over the past couple of years it has provided the basis for a number of experimental sound-based, time-constrained and audience-participation performances, as well as being the subject of enquiries and ongoing discussions towards potential explorations through multiple artforms. It has also been in receipt of an Arts Council of Ireland award that enabled its recording in full as a spoken text towards a future audio release by Diatribe Records.

Below you can listen back to our live radio performance from Chapter 12 of DIAL, broadcast on Dublin Digital Radio on 7 December 2024:



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The 1 May performance from Chapter 5 of DIAL at Kirkos was recorded and broadcast on Dublin Digital Radio on 13 May. Listen back below:





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