The Dublin based production company Note Productions has announced a new monthly event to be curated by a different musician each month, one of the first ventures of the company’s new Artistic Director Matthew Nolan. The Curator’s Club, held in the Odessa Club for the first time on Thursday, 3 October, will focus on jazz, electronic and experimental music. The series’ first curator is Adrian Crowley, who once said that he experiences music while he sleeps (‘I think it’s a kind of natural aural hallucination…. Once I’m wide awake it’s gone.’)

The Curators’ Club is the latest in a number of monthly events to be established in Dublin. Kaleidoscope, curated by musicians Clíodhna Ryan and Kate Ellis with occasional guest curators, has been held in the Odessa Club since its inception just over four years ago, now held on the first Wednesday of every month.

Down the road in JJ Smyth’s, the Dublin Guitar Night now presents a range of guitarists on the last Tuesday of the month. The Twisted Pepper on Middle Abbey Street hosts the monthly Noisy Plug Sessions, which showcases bands from around the country – this event also tours to Galway, Waterford and Kilkenny and is intended to create a network for Irish bands.

The Curator’s Club, in its first edition at least, favours longer performances from a smaller number of artists to the mixed, eclectic approach of Kaleidoscope. Crowley’s curation features the Londoner Serafina Steer, a songwriter who performs on the harp as well as other instruments, and Pumajaw, a Scottish duo comprising the producer and multi-instrumentalist John Wills and songwriter and singer Pinkie Maclure. Pumajaw’s most recent work has included a show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival titled Song Noir, an audiovisual show inspired by film noir.

Future editions of the Curator’s Club will be curated by the music and visual art collective Fractal and the journalist Siobhán Kane.