Count Tornado in Mullingar

Voice of trees is a sound installation by sound artist Giovanna Iorio. You can listen to the voice of poets given to a special location or trees. The Fairy Tree at the foot of Loughcrew has been suggested by Irish writer, Ruth Long

This is a storytelling app based on the drive up to Monaghan from Dublin Airport. We assume you are driving via the M1 Motorway North to Belfast, Then turning off at Junction 14 and the A33 to Ardee. And from there following the N2 North to Monaghan. Typically, the Journey takes an hour and twenty minutes. This is not a sat-nav so check a map. Keep your eyes on your driving and your hands on the wheel. No Laughing! We’ll let you get onto the Motorway and get used to the car before we start telling stories. If you've any sugestions contact me seamustreanor@yahoo.co.uk

Welcome to Tallaght - the social scene , this immersive tour explores Tallaght's best social spots and hangouts for all ages. From lively pubs such as Molloys, to fun nights bowling and playing pool in the Leisureplex. After this walk you will know exactly where to go for all your needs, whether it is to go and enjoy a night out with live music, shop and have coffee with your friends, or have a taste of different cuisines. This tour will start off at the Priory Market and help you make your way through to the Sean Welsh Park where this tour ends however, not without stopping by some key social spots. I would say bring some snacks along for the walk but you won’t have to because our first stop will fill you up!

Anthrome / Biome Soundwalk is a reflection on the dichotomy of the natural versus manmade. Here, the act of listening takes on new meaning. With a focus on both the science and aesthetics of the soundscape, listening becomes a method for developing new connections to our environment and a deeper understanding of the climate and biodiversity crisis. The development of this walk included a period of research and field-recording on the grounds of IMMA. This will be brought into context by comparative research and recordings with the native temperate rainforest at the Vale of Clara in Wicklow and the newly developing wood at Glas-na-Bradan in the Belfast Hills. The concepts of durational and non-human listening will be explored. This brings an awareness of timescales and also lifeforms generally not considered into focus, shaping a broader experience of our place in the living world.

Created for IMMA's Earth Rising Eco Festival 2023, the IMMA Timescapes Soundwalk is a hybrid soundwalk / performance resulting from a collaboration between composer and sound artist Robert Coleman, ornithologist Seán Ronayne, and performer and improviser Seán Mac Erlaine. The soundwalk explores the soundscape of IMMA and its relationship stretching from the past, through to the present day and into the future. The focus across these different moments in time allow us to perceive the human impact on the environment which can often go unnoticed due to the slow rates of change. Through eco-acoustic monitoring of bird migrations over IMMA we also explore the geographical connections which become apparent across the globe highlighting the interconnectedness of the Earth's biodiversity. A subsequent panel discussion at 12 noon on Sunday at the People's Pavilion will explore the merging of artistic and scientific practices and what happens when these individuals engage in a process of learning from each other. This will feature in the CMC radio series, ‘We Only Want the Earth’, funded by the BAI through their climate change round for RTÉ lyric fm on the climate emergency and contemporary music and chaired by chaired by Helen Shaw of Athena Media.

If the Morrígan, the wise crow & great queen in Irish mythology could tell you a story, what would she say and where would she bring you? At IMMA’s Earth Rising, she appears as the guide for the soundwalk Tréimhse* in the formal gardens. The walk plays on the need in these troubled times for what Robin Wall Kimmerer calls Re-story-ation “our relationship with the land cannot heal until we hear its stories. But who will tell them?” Braiding Sweetgrass (2013). Using field recording, sound and storytelling to lay down new pathways the walk places Irish and its close ecological observation at the heart of its storytelling. Reimagining the gardens as Gaeilge the Morrígan brings into focus the need for anti colonial methodologies of care and profound ecological awareness to unsilence and imagine new worlds. Siúlaimid le chéile. We will walk together. Tréimhse grew out of conversations between visual artist Rosie O’Reilly and curator Shannon Carroll on the power of Gaeilge as a cornerstone of a new ecological time. it brings together their research, field recordings and sound by Headfoot (Colm O’Ciosoig, Rosie O’Reilly, Barry Ryan) and words by Prof Michael Cronin (An Gaeilge agus an Éiceolaíocht, 2019) Image: The Morrígan, rosie o’reilly *Tréimhse: a period of time

Note: This walk can be done in any order. For an optimised experience, it is recommended to stay within each Echo circle on the map for the duration of the audio. Enjoy! About: I’ve been feeling really sentimental towards this park recently so I want to capture how it is at this time so I can always come back here and walk it as my 20 year old self. I love creating time capsules, through audio and video diaries, writing in my journal, collecting trinkets and programmes from places and shows, anything. This feels like another form of creative relief, therapy and nostalgia for me.

WALK DESCRIPTION This is a piece of music in 8 geolocated sections for location (field) recordings, synthesizers, and percussion. Between each section there is a short 'beat interlude'. It is experienced through the Echoes app and a pair of headphones. When you arrive at a specific location in the National Botanical Gardens, that location’s music will be triggered on the Echoes app. There is a suggested route by following each 'echo' and pathway; however, the sections can also be heard in any order. By taking in each of the eight locations, the total walk should last a little under an hour. SOUNDWALK INFORMATION Growing up close by, the National Botanic Gardens in Glasnevin have been foundational throughout my life. They were a place of exploration through my young childhood; a picturesque backdrop for photographing coming of age family events; a place of solace & escape through my teenage & young adult years; and throughout COVID-19 lockdown, it was one of the few places where it was possible to meet friends & family at a distance. Now as a father, it is a place of exploration once more, as I visit almost on a weekly basis with my young son. Moreover, it continues to be a place of solace & comfort. My dad is buried right next door in Glasnevin Cemetery, and when he died during strict lockdown in 2021, knowing that he was buried in such a beautiful place, surrounded by such an abundance of life, brought solace when we were robbed of the traditional grieving rituals that help us deal with such loss. On 27 January 2023, myself and my four-year-old son went exploring some of our favourite spots in the National Botanical Gardens, and by making location (field) recordings collected sounds that excited us. I have taken these location recordings home, and augmented or ornamented them by articulating the resonant frequencies found on the recordings on synthesizers and other instruments I have at home. The location recordings you can hear are the result of naively listening to not only the environment around us, but our place, and our impact within it. As a result, there is no attempt to edit or remove ourselves from the recordings, and at times you can hear myself and my son discussing things that we hear and see with wonder and appreciation. I hope you enjoy this little ornamented soundwalk guided by myself and a four-year-old, and enjoy exploring the beauty of the National Botanical Gardens. Feel free to follow the path that we took, or to make your own way around the different geolocations. I made this piece as preparatory research for an different work I'm currently writing for Plus Minus Ensemble as part of Zubin Kanga's Cyborg Soloists UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship at Royal Holloway University of London.

Interactive audio tour, based upon the practices of dereliction and vacancy imposed by property hoarding experts, the Irish Government.