What’s Next? Nadar Ensemble
Including Paul Scully’s ‘Personal Best’ - a performance where he literally ran 3km to the venue, live-streaming the journey in pursuit of his fastest time🏃⏱️
Incredible way to begin Day 2!
📸 : @mollykeanephoto
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THIS THURSDAY:
Paul Scully, not only a composer but also a gifted runner, literally goes for his best time in the 3km distance in ‘Personal Best’. ⏱️🏃
To be followed in real time and provided with sports commentary, @paul.zip hopes to make it to his performance just in time…
One not to miss.
Tickets for ‘What’s Next? Nadar Summer School’ on our website (link in bio) 🎟️
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Paul Scully’s ‘Personal Best’ receives its Irish premiere at New Music Dublin this year alongside works by Matthew Grouse, Nina Fukuoka, and Eveline Vervliet. All of whom took part in Nadar Ensembles summer school in 2025.
Thursday’s lunchtime concert: ‘What’s Next? Nadar Summer School’ features four new works blending music, video, electronics, and performance. A diverse selection of pieces exploring memory, language, horror, sport, and the relationship between sound and gesture.
🗓️ Thursday, April 16th
⏳ 1:00PM
📌 The Studio, @nationalconcerthall
🎟️ Tickets in bio.
This is a co-production between Gaudeamus Festival, New Music Dublin, Contemporary Music Centre Ireland, Transit Festival & Warsaw Autumn.
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11.03.26 sign up sheet in bio! The next TESTBED is 7pm, Wednesday 11th March in Kirkos. Send me a message or email if you’d like to present your work at this one! :))
Join us for the second session of TESTBED, a monthly group meet-up for artists who work with sound.
DATE: 11.02.26
TIME: 6:45pm (Doors) - 7pm (Start)
VENUE: 1 Little Green Street (Kirkos)
TICKETS: Free! (Booking required)
꧁ LINK IN BIO ꧂
By @paul.zip
The goal of TESTBED is to foster a meeting group of artists with overlapping practices who can support and push each other.
What is Testbed?
I wanted to create a space for artists working with sound to meet each month to share and discuss their work together. In the hopes that together we can expand our practices and push each other.
TESTBED joins an already rich group of monthly meetups at Kirkos like the Frustrated Writer’s Group, Improv Club, Meitheal Mondays, and Fanvid.
This is a bench we made in December entirely out of materials we already had which was very satisfying!
We wanted to make better use of the space at the back wall for both seating and storage. The bench is also on castor wheels which means we can move it up to the windows for when we open for our library hours (more on this soon!)
It took about a day and a half to make and we got it done just in time for our Xmas party.
Come try it out next time you’re in Kirkos :)
p.s. If you’re a carpenter and have any tips for how we could have done this better please let us know!
✨ The Nadar Summer School has come to an end.
One intense week of rehearsals, workshops and conversations in Antwerp, with young composers and musicians exploring new ideas.
A big thank you to @desingelantwerp for hosting us in their house. And of course, to all participants, coaches and partners for making this journey unforgettable.
📍 Catch Nadar Summer School live on tour
Utrecht · 11 September, 20:00 @ Theater Kikker
Warsaw · 21 September, 20:00 @ Warsaw Autumn
Leuven · 18 October, 16:00 @ STUK
Dublin · April 2026 @ NCH
Co-production: Gaudeamus Festival, New Music Dublin/Contemporary Music Centre Ireland, Transit Festival, Warsaw Autumn
📸 Wim Heirbaut
CMC Ireland and @newmusicdublin festival, in partnership with @nadarensemble , is delighted to announce that Paul Scully has been commissioned to develop a new work for the ensemble at their 2025 Summer School.
Paul Scully and composers Matthew Grouse, Nina Fukuoka and Eveline Vervliet - commissioned by respective festival partners @gaudeamusnl , @warsawautumn and Transit Festival, Leuven - will participate in Nadar’s Summer School in De Singel, Antwerp developing new works specifically for the ensemble.
Nadar Ensemble will premiere these four pieces at the four festivals in 2025-26 ⚡
👉 Read more at CMC News (link in bio)
📸 Paul Scully. Credit: Louis Scully.
@paul.zip
🌀 18.11.2024 🌀 5:10pm 🌀 Huddersfield, UK
New work being premiered at @hcmfuk in Huddersfield tomorrow! It doesn’t have a name (suggestions welcome), but it’s got video, lights, music, objects, me talking, and lots of darkness.
My third (?) piece about Bull Island, this time honing in a bit more on ideas from ecological philosophy.
It was all filmed on Bull Island, in the dark, after many hours spent there late at night. Thanks to @magicturd and @cadenza433_ for spending a night with me recording the more difficult shots. Sebastian’s torch work was impeccable and Kevin kept me safe while driving a radioactive car without a license.
p.s if it doesn’t flop maybe I’ll put it on in Unit 44 for Dublin folks x
A few recent books that I wish I could share with Maurice. My first thought anytime I read something that I like is, I must ask Maurice what he thinks of this. He was my litmus test for many things. I feel now more than ever I would connect with him through literature, philosophy, art and I can’t help but feel there were so many interesting conversations we never got to have…
1. A Practical Guide to Levitation - José Eduardo Agualusa
2. The Musical Brain - César Aira
3. All Art is Ecological - Timothy Morton
4. Lines - Tim Ingold
5. Dark Ecology - Timothy Morton
6. Paul Klee Life and Work - Christian Geelhaar
7. Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics - Mikhail Bakhtin
