Bottlenote Festival 09

If experimental jazz is your thing, the Bottlenote Collective promise to simultaneously stimulate your brains and ears with 2 nights of brand new improvised music from Bottlenote members Seán Óg, Simon Jermyn, Shane Latimer and Justin Carroll, in collaboration with visiting artists from Norway, Paris, Denmark and London’s Loop Collective. That adds up to 2 double bills featuring newly commissioned music for 4 new groups at the cutting edge of contemporary jazz, as well as music from established Bottlenote groups, Bang Hazard and Lead Soup, laptop sets from Estonian sound artist Alo Allik and Dublin’s Eomac, and 2 free workshops open to the public. The festival runs at the Twisted Pepper on Fri 4 and Sat 5 Dec. www.bottlenotemusic.com

Beat the Sunday Night Blues

The intriguingly named Centre for Creative Practices at 15 Lwr Pembroke St has come up with an spot-on way to beat the Sunday night blues and escape the tyranny of I’m a Celebrity X Factor with a spontaneous House Concert tonight (29 Nov 9pm). Irish and Polish musicians including Brian O hUiginn on uilleann pipes, Andrzej Bauer on cello and Michal Bunio Skrok on experimental electronics get together for an informal evening of experimentation, exploration and improvisation. It’s a tenner in, and you can byo refreshments. www.cfcp.ie

The Fold 4

It’s the final Fold session on Thur 4 June, new improvised and experimental music at St Audeons Church, presented by Note Productions. For this grand finale Caoimhín O Raghallaigh plays trad and contemporary folk music on fiddle, hardanger and 5-string viola; Threadpulls features electronica from Gavin Duffy of Cap Pas Cap and Peter Maybury aka Hardsleeper; and there’s an intriguing spoken word performance from one time Microdisney/Fatima Mansions frontman Cathal Coughlan. www.thefold.ie

The Fold

Note Productions and the Bottlenote collective have set up The Fold, a space for new improvised and experimental music. The place is the beautiful St Audeons, Dublin's earliest surviving medieval church, and the aim is to provide a platform for emerging artists and new practices (everything from noise and drones to jazz and traditional idioms) with monthly performances between now and June. Kicking off on Thur 26 March, the opening event features saxophonist Sean Og, experimentalists Fergus Cullen, Gavin Duffy and sound artist Karl Him, with special guest Iarla O Lionaird. Other performers taking part in the series include Morla, Justin Carroll and Cathal Coughlan. 

www.thefold.ie