Culture File RTÉ lyric fm

New York-born, Dublin-based photographer, Ishmael Claxton on a few of his favourite things in watching, listening, reading, tasting and smelling.

An audio postcard from the audio idyll of Sherkin Island; drawing as resistance in the attention economy at a Dublin workshop; and an update from the trouser front line.

Audio experiments in genres too numerous (and possibly too unstable) to mention filled the air on Sherkin Island this past June Holiday Weekend at the Open Ear Festival.

Can drawing help resist the over-exploitation of our valuable human attention? Renata Pekowska, who runs drawing workshops with an aim to do just that, thinks maybe it can.

Are your trousers too skinny right now? Or too wide? Is it ever possible to wear the right sort? Joanna Walsh on the mercurial discourse of pants.

In preparation for our extended musical journey into his Irish trad version of In C (RTÉ lyric fm, 6pm, Saturday June 1st) one of our guides for that program, Dónal Lunny shares again some of his favourites in watching, listening, reading, tasting and smelling.