Reception, the long running Dublin-based series of concerts that focuses on cutting edge experimental music & performance will celebrate 9 years of activity with the return of the Reception Weekend festival on February 14th & 15th at The Project Arts Centre, Dublin 2 & Tengu, Dublin 1. 2025’s  programme focuses on artists and works which explore temporality in unique ways & ranges from durational minimal works to ecstatic club music to free improvisation and outsider pop.

Since 2016 Reception has sought out new music & sound pieces which evade easy categorisation, often blurring the lines between composition & improvisation, performance & installation. Reception Weekend 2025 is our most ambitious and wide-ranging programme to date bringing together composers and performers from three continents.

Over the course of the weekend we will present four concerts featuring Irish artists & musicians Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh, Susan Geaney, Dunk Murphy & Aonghus McEvoy alongside legendary minimalist composer Éliane Radigue (performed by acclaimed instrumentalists Rhodri Davies, Angharad Davies & Dominic Lash), Chicago footwork innovator RP Boo, New York experimentalists Jack Callahan & Jeff Wittscher, celebrated Japanese composer Ryoko Akama and French composer Clara de Asis.

Susan Geaney will present a new world premiere commissioned by Reception. The festival will also see the first Irish performance by RP Boo and the Irish premiere of Éliane Radigue’s ‘Occam Ocean’.