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Selection of articles written between 2005 and today.
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Toys – Episode 3 – Mad Scientists of Music
Episode three takes a journey into the underground world of circuit bending. Circuit benders hack children’s toys and dissect cheap archaic electronics, to produce strange new instruments. Circuit bending lies at the intersection of instrument building, grass roots activism and psychedelia. Listeners will learn about the history of circuit bending, a hobby that grew out… Read more
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What is Choices?
The world of mental health is a crazy place. I should know, I spent six years studying psychology and psychotherapy. Not to say my new series is autobiographical, but you couldn’t make up some of the things that go on in the world of soul surgery. ‘Choices‘, recorded last year for Dublin City FM, tells… Read more
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Choices – Episode 6 – DiCaprio Island
Episode 6 of the brand new series from Dead Medium Productions and Dublin City FM. First broadcast 11th June, 2014. Natalie’s bullying finally culminates in a complete mental breakdown for Ainesh. Humiliated and desperate, Ainesh locks himself inside a classroom and refuses to come out. Inside he creates a sock puppet utopia. Committed instantly, Ainesh… Read more
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‘Of Mongooses and Men’ – Episode 5 – The Gareth Stack Show: Live
Your monthly dose of lowbrow comedy and middlebrow culture with Gareth Stack, hosted by Andrew Booth. This episodes first guest was Tom Rowley of Storymap.ie, a website that lets you find and create stories to accompany your trip to Dublin. We were also joined by Dublin indie folk harmonisers Mongoose, who lent their dulcet chorus… Read more
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Growing Up Digital – Episode 2 – Mad Scientists of Music
Episode two explores the video game backgrounds of a variety of Irish experimental musicians – how video game culture and ready access to technology influenced their love of music and their aesthetic sensibilities. Chiptune music in particular reappropriates not only the machinery, but also the distinctive sounds of computer games of the 1980’s, and this… Read more
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Choices – Episode 5 – The 7th Seal
Episode 5 of the brand new series from Dead Medium Productions and Dublin City FM. First broadcast 4th June, 2014. An encounter group led by Sean becomes deeply personal. Ainesh seeks help from his therapist. He finds his therapist is going out of business due to a glut of newly trained psychotherapists. Ainesh takes on… Read more
