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ep and commissions from Ferdia Ó Cairbre, Ollie Lambert and Cór Linn teenager Gracie Gilmartin – this is certain to be an enthralling sunday afternoon in the beautiful environs of the National Concert Hall. Diatribe Records, Ireland’s premier contemporary classical and new music label, will be holding their bi-annual Diatribe Stage across multiple stages over the weekend. A nested doll of a festival within a festival, this year’s presentation includes showcases of ‘The Harmonic Labyrinth, a collaboration between violinist Aoife Ní Bhriain and viola da gamba player Liam Byrne. Elsewhere, groundbreaking violinist/ composer Diamanda La Berge Dramm will be performing erforming as a duo with her mother, flutist/composer Anne La Berge, presenting a musical family history unlike any other – an impossible, rousing mix of electro and songs. One of the wilder events on the bill, ADVERT, will see Hamburg maestros Decoder Ensemble blurring the lines between in this multimedia multimedia performances by “composer-performer-provocatrice” Laura Bowler, who will be having a tattoo applied live on-stage during the show by Leipzigbased artist and tattooist, Julia Rehme. The electric lineup also offers ‘there will be no silence’, the opportunity to see to poetry of Adam Wyeth performed by renowned Irish actors Owen Roe and Aisling O’Sullivan to music by David Downes on the Diatribe Stage. Also performing as a duo will be Nathan Sherman and Alex Petcu of Stone Drawn Circle, who devised The Archetypes Project as “a reflection on archetypal symbols that New Music Dublin 2024: Thursday 25th - Sunday 28th April. Tickets and ticket package deals available from www.newmusicdublin.ie date back to the birth of consciousness, revealing our place in nature.” The whole event will close out with the Barry Guy Quartet playing a closing double bill with renowned turntablist Mariam Rezae. “With immense joy and privilege, New Music Dublin is announcing a programme that is as diverse and dynamic as the creators behind it,” says John Harris. “Our aim is to celebrate creativity in its most unadulterated forms, showcasing works that are as unpredictably brilliant as the minds of their creators.” New Music Dublin festival director John Harris is also a composer, as well as artistic co-director and chief executive of the Red Note Ensemble. He was previously artistic director of the Paragon Ensemble and general manager of the Hebrides Ensemble. His previous work includes operas, chamber music, theater music and music for film, including work for Scottish Opera, the Sound Festival Aberdeen, Tapestry Opera Toronto, the Royal Shakespeare Company and Channel 4. 23