STARLING x
Féile na Gréine
15 – 17 August 2025
Our tentatively annual performance programme, a collaboration with
beloved Limerick Experimental music festival Féile na Gréine.
Michael Speers is an artist and researcher from County Down, Ireland. His practice incorporates percussion, feedback, digital synthesis and environmental sound in the creation of improvised performances, site-specific sound installations and electroacoustic compositions. Michael is currently a PhD student at SARC: Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Sound and Music, Belfast. For Féile na Gréine, Michael will perform a site responsive piece for feedback drums + computer.‘Avant-bard’
Seth Frightening sings damaged neo-folk songs with contagious sincerity, bearing the dried blood of the macabre. Drawing from diverse folk, noise and grunge influences, he weaves stories of clouded characters that reads simultaneously like a diary account and a news report of a car crash. He is the regretful drunk; the infant victim; the curious rubbernecker.te
Lately, Autism Controller has been thinking about Autism Controller as the thing between them. Being Autism Controller is like being a waitress: you can learn to carry three plates at once, you can be good at talking to the customers, you can stay on top of your tables — but can you do it all at once? The answer is a resounding ‘no’, but Autism Controller try to think on their feet. A skill learnt in the meanwhile: energy management. Autism Controller must manage the requisite blend of subjectivities between them. Making follows an ardent process of being friends. Then they can think about the audience. Then they can think about the site.
Osaro-Hello is multi award winning artist with a fascination for West African mythos. Her recent tale delves into the literal Black arts of lonesome prayers and guttural vocal cords which she infuses in her live performances during the spring and hermit seasons. Founder of the Fried Plantains Collective, Osaro celebrates the melodious voices of African and Irish artists through her event Black Jam — taken place at the Abbey Theatre, The Complex, Bello Bar and the Centre Culturel Irlandais in France.