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RTÉ News
11-08-2025
- Entertainment
- RTÉ News
Ambient Orbit: exploring ambient sound in Irish sacred spaces
Peter Curtin, the producer of Ambient Orbit, gives an overview and insight into their upcoming events in Kilkenny, Cork, and Limerick. Ambient Orbit began broadcasting on RTÉ lyric fm in the winter of 2022. Around this time, we were beginning to hear the fruits of music that had been recorded in new and curious ways during the second wave of the pandemic. Artists looking to overcome the logistical challenges of recording in an era of restrictions had innovatively set-up recording spaces outdoors. Suddenly, environmental ambience was an intrinsic part of jazz and electronic music with cicadas transporting us to a back garden in Chicago or resonant bird song bringing us to a leafy park in Berlin. Music welcomed the sound of the natural world and there was a perfect synchronicity to it. My colleague Áine Gallagher and I recognised the potential for occupying this space on RTÉ lyric where field recordings from the Irish landscape could be captured and mixed with ambient music; creating an immersive and meditative experience that would allow listeners to reset and escape the noise of everyday life. Since the first episode on October 10th 2022, the non-presenter led programme - now entering its seventh series this October - has collaborated with field recordists, sound designers and ornithologists such as Seán Ronayne, Tadhg O'Sullivan, Fintan O'Brien and Aoife O'Neill in addition to broadcasting field recordings submitted by listeners. Towards the end of the second series, we explored the idea of bringing the programme to a live setting. It seemed fitting that ancient Irish neolithic sites of mythical and sacred significance would be the setting, and solstice celebrations which mark the Gaelic calendar, would be the occasion. Through sound and music, we would attempt to channel how our ancestors would have celebrated the solstice in ancient times. For the summer solstice in June 2023, we invited musicians Larissa O'Grady (violin), Ryan Hargadon (saxophone) and Rachael Lavelle (vocal) to Lough Gur, the oldest standing stone circle in Ireland. With two directional mics pointing towards the lake and the surrounding woods, the musicians responded live to the unfolding dawn chorus and the rising sun. We have marked every winter and summer solstice since then; visiting the Céide Fields, the Hill of Uisneach and Loughcrew along the way, soundtracked by the unique surrounding environment and music from Dan Walsh, Méabh McKenna, RÓIS, Neil Ó'Lochlainn, Niamh Dalton, Gareth Quinn Redmond, Elaine Howley, David Kitt, Elaine Malone and Clara Webster. The show has also been performed live at Another Love Story, Gleo Festival in Limerick, Open Ear on Sherkin Island and Culture Night 2024 in collaboration with the Douglas Hyde Gallery from Trinity College. On 14th August, Ambient Orbit partners with Kilkenny Arts Festival to broadcast from one of the chambers of Dunmore Cave, which were formed over millions of years. Kate Ellis, Nick Roth, Adam Buttimer and RÓIS will join us and we're excited to hear their experimental sounds reverberate around the historical chambers of the cave. Before returning for a new season on RTÉ lyric fm in October, we will be heading to Cork City on September 10th to broadcast from St Anne's Church, with the Shandon Bells providing the backdrop to our programme in collaboration with Sounds from a Safe Harbour. In this hectic contemporary world of digital distraction, we strive to create a peaceful programme of beautiful sounds and music to help the listener to relax, rewind and focus.
West Australian
11-08-2025
- Sport
- West Australian
Waringarri Crows and Port Wyndham Crocs seal wins in last round of EKFL before finals
With finals looming, the Waringarri Crows and Port Wyndham Crocs stamped their authority with convincing wins in the last round of the East Kimberley Football League. At Kununurra Oval on Friday night, the Crows' forward line took off early in the first term kicking three goals while their defence kept the Kununurra Demons at bay, letting only one goal through, 3.2 (20) to 1.0 (6). The Crows kept up the pace in the second term kicking a further four goals while the Demons stagnated, failing to score another goal to trail by 38 points at half-time. But the Demons came out firing in the second half, outscoring the Crows with three goals to keep them in the game and scores were 8.9 to 4.3 at the last change. The Demons went on to score another four goals in the final term but the Crows kicked another two to keep them well in the lead and take home the win, 10.13 (73) to 8.3 (51). The Crows' Diquane Juli had an impressive performance as the top scorer of the match kicking five goals, while Peter Curtin and Leno Thomas led the scoring for the Demons with three goals each. The Port Wyndham Crocs proved why they are on top of the ladder at Clarrie Cassidy Oval on Saturday afternoon, defeating the Ord River Magpies by 29 points, 11.11 (77) to 6.12 (48). The Crocs' Caleb Calwyn led the scoring with five goals while the Magpies' Jett Forbes led his team with two goals. The Crocs will go on to face Ord River Magpies in the qualifying final on Saturday August 17, at Clarrie Cassidy Oval at 5pm while the Waringarri Crows will take on the Kununurra Demons in the elimination final on Friday, August 16, at Kununurra Oval at 6pm.
