amplify is the Contemporary Music Centre's (CMC) podcast on new music and composers from Ireland, exploring current issues relating to new music in Ireland, as well as profiling some of its most interesting voices through interviews, features and discussions.
A pair of new episodes of amplify focus on this year's New Music Dublin festival; the first features composers Úna Monaghan, Kevin Volans and Susan Geaney, and conductor David Brophy, in conversation with special guest American broadcaster and writer John Schaefer (New Sounds, WNYC) and CMC's Jonathan Grimes - listen below, via Spotify.
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The second episode, again presented by Jonathan Grimes and recorded live during New Music Dublin 2023, features a live discussion with composers Robert Curgenven, Karen Power, Judith Ring, and Jürgen Simpson on the impact of climate change on new music, and how musicians are responding to the climate crisis and biodiversity loss through their work - listen below.
Listen to more from the amplify podcast here.