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 - Tue 2 Apr: TAK Ensemble - MOUTHPIECE
TAK Ensemble (USA) open this year’s festival concerts while making their Music Current debut with an all-American programme. Hailed as “One of the most prominent ensembles in the United States practicing truly experimental music.” The ensemble was founded on the principles of curiosity, change, and caring communication. TAK is dedicated to the commissioning of new works and direct collaboration with composers and other artists and they have premiered hundreds of works to date. TAK delivers energetic performances "that combine crystalline clarity with the disorienting turbulence of a sonic vortex” (The WIRE), and “impresses with the organicity of their sound, their dynamism and virtuosity” (New Sounds, WQXR).