KONTAKT
Kontakt is a space for sound performance, electronics, music, experimentation, and collective improvisation.Concert series and monthly radio show curated by Anna Murray.
Next Episode: 18 November 2025
KONTAKT
About Kontakt
Kontakt is a monthly radio series and occasional concert series, curated and presented by Anna Murray.Kontakt on CAMP Radio
Playing with the connective tissue between sound art, field recordings and composition with improvisations and interventions. Kontakt is broadcast monthly LISTEN.CAMP (Tuesdays at 13.00 CET/ 12.00 Ire/UK).
KONTAKT
21 Oct 2025: Sounds of Annaghmakerrig Lough (re-run)
Sounds of Annaghmakerrig Lough - water, wind, rain, stone, birds, insects, machines, morning, night, and more.Recorded July 2025 during residency at Tyrone Guthrie Centre. With thanks to Mayo Arts Service.
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Past Shows
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Past Shows
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Past Shows
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Past Shows
23 Sep 2025: Stone
Stone as source, bedrock, grindstone, surface, core, texture, tool, container, material, metaphor. With music from Gayle Young & James Harley’s Lithophones, David Toop and Avsluta’s meditations on colour and material On White, Indigo and Lamp Black, Okkyung Lee, Pauline Oliveros and Ione, Annea Lockwood.
26 Aug 2025: Heritage Lake
Composer/clarinettist Zachary Good shares some insight into his new album Heritage Lake, and chooses two performances/recordings that have impacted his work (from Luigi Lai and Ralph Towner).
29 Jul 2025: Sounds of Annaghmakerrig Lough
Sounds of Annaghmakerrig Lough - water, wind, rain, stone, birds, insects, machines, morning, night, and more.Recorded July 2025 during residency at Tyrone Guthrie Centre. With thanks to Mayo Arts Service.
01 Jul 2025: Collective Sound
Collective Sounds, after and reflecting on Pauline Oliveros, sonic meditations and text scores.With music by Oliveros with Musique Nouvelles, Lou Barnell, crowd sounds and piano improv.
03 Jun 2025: Lit
Celebrating the release of LIT on the Ergodos record label
08 Apr 2025: Diffraction
Diffractions - splintering, splitting, recombining, reforming, lost and found.
11 Mar 2025: Signal Noise
Making music out of the ever-present sound of intrusive noise - sound artist Christina Kubisch’s Stromsänger records the electromagnetic sounds of trams for music for voices, recorded and re-recorded in a live space. New music by Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh repurposes invasive construction.
11 Feb 2025: an unnecessary stain on silence
A live improvisation by Cork-based group entr’acte (John Godfrey, Irene Murphy, Mick O’Shea, Karen Power), and recent music by Phil Maguire and Regan Bowering
14 Jan 2025: resistant/turbulent
Resistances, reflections, breakthroughs in some recently released music from Anthony Stillabower & Scott McLaughlin, Catarina Schembri/Ficino Ensemble, and Andrew Crossley/Quiet Music Ensemble.
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Past Shows
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Events
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Events
Shedding4 August 2024, Unit 44
All proceeds in aid of Women's AidKontakt: Shedding will feature performance of a new commission created by Murray with Vetter, ‘Shedding/Caitheamh’. [cw: themes of violence against women]Featuring:
Kathryn Vetter
Sebastian Adams
Anna MurrayKathryn Vetter is a clarinetist based in New York City whose work centers around contemporary classical music and creating new works for clarinet and bass clarinet. She is a founding member of Sputter Box, a clarinet, voice, percussion trio, and Nu Quintet.Anna Murray is a composer and artist based in Ireland, with an interest in improvised sound spaces, conceptually-driven pieces and graphic and other alternative scoring.Sebastian Adams is an Irish composer, performer and artistic director with a broad practice currently centring on conceptual music and creative coding.
Path16 April 2022, Unit 44
With: Abigail Smith, Malachy Robinson, Geaney/Lacey/McAvoy Trio
Edge19 March 2022, Unit 44
Synths and noise.With: Grattan Smith, Seán Clancy, Brian Bridges
Shade27 February 2022, Unit 44
With: Abigail Smith, Susan Geaney
Play4 August 2018, Kaizen Bar
With: Rachel Ní Chuinn, Sebastian Adams
Sound6 July 2018, The Grand Social
With: Sebastian Adams, Miro Baca
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Events
I N K7pm, 30 Nov 2025, 1 Little Green Street, Dublin
A space for improvised, electronic and experimental musicwith
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Laura Hyland
Joanna Mattrey
Sebastian AdamsFree entry (optional suggested donation of €10)