Nervous State returns to the the airwaves this Sunday 25 July, 3-4pm for a bumper issue with some very interesting interviewees as detailed below. We are going on our Nervous State collective holiday in August so there will be no show next month. We’ll be returning refreshed and reinvigorated in September. 

Natalia Beylis interview by Martin Leen

Natalia Beylis’s latest piece of music ‘Invaded by Fireflies’, released on Cafe OTO is an amazing piece of music Based upon recordings of friends describing beautiful places, this mesmerising piece feels like an psychogeographic journey through unidentified terrain. Described in the Quietus as an exploration of  how sight, hearing and place can come together through language; to think about how words spoken and listened to can be a very visual medium. Walking around listening to this piece of music and to the voices of strangers feels very intimate. Martin Leen chats to Natalia about the piece above, about how we can all hone our listening ears, the influence of her home in Leitrim on her work and the excitement of playing live gigs again.  You can buy the piece through Cafe OTO.

Language shift in the Gaeltacht by Patrick McCusker

The summer of 2021 marks the second year of “staycations”, with holiday makers having been forced to stay in Ireland due to the pandemic. The Gaeltacht communities in Donegal, Connemara and Kerry have seen a particularly large influx - demand for accomodation in Gweedore was such that holiday homes were being let for as much as 800 euro a week in June. Tourism has become integral to the local economies, for better and for worse. What impact has this had on local communities and their distinctive cultures? Patrick McCusker talked to sociolinguist Ben Ó Ceallaigh, teacher and author Katie McGreal and activist Sam Ó Fearraigh of Misneach Thír Chonaill to find out

Annex on their Venice Biennale installation Entanglement by Ali Morris, Tommy Gavin and Caitriona Devery

As our everyday lives become increasingly entangled with data technologies and their assemblages, our routines are shifting to ever more virtual forms of exchange. And while most of us perceive the virtual world as an ethereal formless entity, it is anything but.

Annex is the collective behind Ireland’s pavilion at the 17th Architecture Biennale in Venice, which this year is framed by the question ‘How will we live together?’. With their installation Entanglement, they argue that the digital is material. It is not an ethereal and abstract space but has distinct material and environmental footprints that compel us to reevaluate the utopian fantasy of digital communication and to reflect on how we live together through data infrastructure, today and into the future. We sat down with Annex members Clare Lyster and Donal Lally to discuss Entanglement.

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