Music Minds Festival announced for January 2020

From January 17 to 19, 2020, the second edition of the Music Minds Festival will take place in Doolin, Co.Clare.

The three day multi-genre event is made up of workshops, debates, films, live performances and guest speakers for those interested in the advancing music industry, its lineage, and its rapidly changing vista through technology.

Check out the trailer for Music Minds 2020 below:

In 2020, the emphasis is on connecting different fields of live creative arts. A full day Resolume Software Workshop taught by A-Li-ce, a visual mapping artist from Berlin, will connect with a full day Ableton live workshop given by Cork producer Bantum to produce a joint Resolume and Ableton live performance workshop performance.

The festival will include a master class with London producer Leo Abrahams (Brian Eno, Jon Hopkins, David Holmes) and will dive into the minefield of audio Mastering with some of Ireland's top mastering engineers as well as facilitating Ireland's first patching circle hosted by University of Limerick's Dr Kerry Hagan.

The panels will feature live music and fiery debate while taking on the challenging topics of gender imbalance in the music industry and how artists, promoters and festivals can strive to be more sustainable. As cities become more expensive for artists to live in, thoughts on promoting music from rural Ireland will be shared. In addition, another discussion will be hosted by TIMI Podcast's Mark Graham.

The festival is going to open with a screening of photojournalist Seamus Murphy's A Dog Called Money, the documentary of PJ Harvey's unorthodox journey to her acclaimed album The Hope Six Demolition Project.

Tickets for Music Minds 2020 are available from www.eventbrite.ie.