Music Current Festival is back in Project celebrating its 10th anniversary!
Music Current Festival 2026
Dublin Sound Lab
8 - 11 April 2026
Music Current Festival is back for 2026! Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year with a full programme of workshops, panel discussions and six main evening concerts. A true “contemporary” music festival with a concert programme of all Irish premiers, many world premies, as well as four commissions written specially for the festival. As always there is a strong international theme, with soloists, ensembles and composers from Poland, France, Austria, Germany, USA, Argentina and, of course, Ireland. As usual there is a strong multi-media element with works for live instruments and interactive electronics, interactive video, live sound spatialisation, works for flashlights, choreographed instrumentalists and audio-visual performances.
Wednesday 8 April
Workshop On Listening, with Judith Fliedl
8 April | 3pm
Cube | Tickets €5
In this highly engaging and intimate workshop Judith Fliedl leads the audience on a journey through modes of hearing and presence.
Music Communities – Panel Discussion & Reception
8 April | 6pm
Cube | Free, booking required
A public panel discussion on new models of community-based contemporary music organisations with Michael Maierhof and Tadhg Kinsella.
Action! Station! – Dublin Sound Lab in Concert
8 April | 8pm
Space Upstairs | Tickets €22/20
Dublin Sound Lab return with their trademark multimedia presentation style. In this year’s festival they focus our attention on the space between the action and the sound.
Thursday 9 April
Violin and Electronics – Judith Fliedl in Concert
9 April | 6pm
Cube | Tickets €20/18
Judith Fliedl performs a tour de force programme of contemporary works for violin and electronics embracing all combinations of techniques.
Mouvements – Proxima Centauri Ensemble in Concert
9 April | 8pm
Space Upstairs | Tickets €22/20
French ensemble Proxima Centauri presents Mouvements, a concert programme that creates a space for dialogue between the sound textures brought by electronics and the live interpretation of the instrumentalist.
Friday 10 April
Workshop On Composition, with Francis Heery
10 April | 3pm
Cube | Tickets €5
In this workshop hosted by Francis Heery, participants will explore non-linear approaches to score writing, and look at how improvisatory practices can be integrated into contemporary composition.
Exchange – Spółdzielnia Muzyczna Ensemble in Concert
10 April | 8pm
Space Upstairs | Tickets €22/20
Spółdzielnia Muzyczna is among Poland’s most dynamic ensembles specialising in the performance of contemporary music.
Saturday 11 April
Inside ‘game over’ – A Workshop with Duo Ressi/Benes
11 April | 3pm
Cube | Tickets €5
In this workshop, the duo will explain the aesthetic and theoretical foundations of ‘game over’ and demonstrate its principles live in the game editor.
Game Over! – Ressi/Benes Duo in Concert
11 April | 6pm
Cube | Tickets €20/18
Christof Ressi and Szilard Benes specialise in audio-visual concept improvisations, exploring new strategies for musical interplay and interaction in custom-made digital environments.
In game over the clarinet player uses an orientation sensor to navigate an avatar through sprawling 2D game worlds.
Topographies – Francis Heery, Izumi Kimura, Shane Latimer, Elliott Murphy in Concert
11 April | 8pm
Space Upstairs | Tickets €22/20
A concert that focuses on what Ireland and Irish culture meant to the composers as members of the Irish diaspora in Germany.
Support Credits
Music Current Festival is in partnership with the Contemporary Music Centre, Dublin; Supported by the Arts Council; With the friendly support of Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.
Dates
8 - 11 April
Genres
FestivalLive MusicMusic
https://vimeo.com/
Support Project Arts Centre and join us in developing the next generation of contemporary artists in Ireland
