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Like many American visitors to Ireland, Lonnie G. Bunch III, head of the Smithsonian, has uncovered some Irish heritage. But for him the discovery produces ambivalent feelings.

Composer and vocalist, Laura Bowler shares her current worlds in watching, readings, listening, tasting and smelling

Jennifer Walshe's data springwatch, Joseph Young brings the ancestors black to life in the garden at Kilruddery, a world of bleeps and bips in the experimental electronic music studio, Ruth Clinton sings her latest songbook.

Neil O'Connor, aka Ordnance Survey, aka Somadrone, is our guide for a safari among the blinking and beeping hardware at the brand new University of Limerick Electronic Music Studio (ULEMS).

More a gathering of friends than a supergroup, Tradition Now festival act Ruth Clinton teams up with Sinead Landless, Corman Lankum and Consuelo Varo to explore Clinton's new songbook, This Fearless Maid II.

Sound artist Joseph Young's new work, The Ancestors, places the voices of the long departed, among other sounds, around the gardens of Kilruddery House in Co Wicklow.