Main content
Sorry, this episode is not currently available

A Date with Dublin

For Bloomsday, the great celebration of Dublin as portrayed in Joyce’s Ulysses, Elizabeth Alker offers the best ambient and neo-classical music being made in the city today.

Bloomsday, the 16th of June, the date upon which that most dazzling of modern novels, James Joyce’s Ulysses, is set. Like the book, the day offers a celebration of that most illustrious and musical of cities, Dublin. Joyce himself was a trained singer, forever bursting into song, and his obsession with music spilled into his book, just as the Bloomsday revellers spill into the Dublin streets. To mark this year’s event, Elizabeth Alker looks across the Irish Sea to find out what Dublin’s best ambient, experimental and neo-classical musicians are up to right now, as they seek out the ineluctable modality of the audible.

Produced by Geoff Bird
A Reduced Listening production for ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 3

1 hour

Last on

Sun 16 Jun 2024 23:30

Music Played

  • Roger Doyle

    Nowth Upon Nacht

    • Finnegans Wake - Suite Of Affections.
  • One Leg One Eye

    The Fancy Cannot Cheat So Well

    • .​.​.​. And Take The Black Worm With Me.
    • Nyahh Records.

Broadcast

  • Sun 16 Jun 2024 23:30

What is unclassified music?

What is unclassified music?

Elizabeth Alker introduces five of her favourite 'unclassifiable' pieces of music.