Flickering is an audiovisual exploration of the instability and fragmentation of urban spaces, capturing the tension between the physical and digital worlds. Using slow-motion footage shot on an iPhone, the project embraces the natural flickering effect that occurs when artificial light interacts with high frame rates, revealing the unseen pulse of the city.

This visual distortion, coupled with a soundscape composed of field recordings from urban and industrial environments alongside excerpts from video game OSTs, constructs a haunting, fractured portrait of contemporary urban life.

Have you had a paranormal experience in a place that you were living in? Have you been affected by ghostly phenomena while on a weekend getaway to a bnb in Dingle? Is there an unexplained, but entirely palpable, air of dread hanging over you every waking minute in the place that you are living? Are you unsure whether this dark mood is a supernatural presence or related to the black-mold you recently discovered growing in your shower? Do you have a feeling of always being watched while you sleep – could this be a ghost, or is it because your bed is in a shared kitchen? Is your landlord an actual goblin?

Don’t worry friend - you are not alone.

Spooky Beore are back for Alternating Current with Ghosthouse! Yes - The Hags will be hosting a ghost networking and teaming building (ie. recording session) event in Flux on the 3rd of May from 11-13:00. Maybe you haven’t had a paranormal experience in a gaff. Don’t worry friend. Spooky Beore are also interested in recording tales of haunty landlords..being landlords. The Hags will offer private recording sessions for shy folks from 11-12, and an open group session/networking event from 12-13:00. Drop us a message if you want to come to either!

Ghosthouse is a long form participatory audio project which taps into the traditions of oral folklore to record and explore haunting both as a supernatural experience and, as a tangible, rational reaction to the commodification of our most basic human need for shelter, warmth, security and belonging.

Using a redundant site of port infrastructure, the observatory, as a probe with which to analyse the colonial formation of Liverpool, this session will uncover the material and technical forms of capital accumulation in the city, and its various afterlives today. Using audio archives and sedimentary broadcasting practices, this session will sculpt a live audio essay, with participants manipulating sonics and engaging in live discussion to denaturalise the timekeeping function of the city and the river in its postcolonial context.

This session will explore three distinct projects, with each having their own way of interpreting the sonic aspects of cities. The research of artist Cameron Clarke, the Dun Laoghaire Sound Map and the Live Music Mapping Project. These three projects all engage in space in powerful and profound ways. Cameron Clarke’s research engages in guerilla approaches to the presentation of sound in city centres, specifically Belfast. The Dun Laoghaire Sound Map extends an important techno-cultural tradition to a local context. The Live Music Mapping Project’s work stresses the importance of archiving precarious music scenes within our cities.

The three will share some insight into their work and answer questions at the end.

Join Independent Community Radio Network representatives Samantha Lippett, Michael Holland, and Seán Finnan for a live broadcast and open discussion that brings together their experiences of running a grassroots radio network. To accompany these reflections, they will share sound bites from the ICRN archives (2022-) and invite participants to share their own vision for future cross-border collaborations. Operating as an open mic session, everyone is welcome regardless of broadcasting experience.

Street-Level Sound at Crompton Court ~ Love Lane

Surround Sound' is a DIY sound installation set in the public walkway through Love Lane (Crampton Court). The installation uses modified vintage hi-fi speakers set in amongst the jumble of the passageway with intermittent pulses, drones and stories that diffuse into the medley of the street. Surround Sound has had a few raucous outings in Belfast, energising desolate pedestrian tunnels on cold winter nights, however coming into spring we can expect a more playful soundscape to emerge probing notions about Dublin and its unique sounds.

Tadhg Kinsella’s “Sonotecture Memos” is a city-responsive sound walk/installation, tracing the entangled resonances of sound, architecture, and daily life in Dublin City. The installation will guide listeners from FLUX to The Complex, with the city streets acting as an exhibition space itself.

“Sonotecture (Sonic architecture) Memos” relating to the digital notes kept by Kinsella walking around the city while working on this installation. A sonic response to the “lust or dust” relationship the city’s architecture holds and how artists adapt to deal with this.

Through digital and acoustic technologies Kinsella creates a collage of field recordings, archival fragments, and electronic gestures. Sonically exploring how informal DIY creativity and activity shapes the artistic identity of the city. Inviting listeners to hear Dublin not as a static backdrop, but as an evolving living community in a resonant structure; scored daily by bodies, voices, and collective actions.

Meet up at Flux Studios Courtyard ~ Soundwalk