The major music event of this coming week is the East Cork Early Music Festival which has boosted its programme thanks to Cork 2005, and begins with Emma Kirkby singing with the Irish Baroque Choir at the North Cathedral on Wednesday at 8 pm.
From there the festival concentrates on east Cork, with concerts in Fota House on Thursday (Sarah Cunningham and Sarah Groser with viola da gamba and Malcolm Proud on the harpsichord in a programme of Marais and Couperin), and recitals in Midleton and in Cloyne Cathedral before ending with the Monteverdi Vespers at the North Cathedral on Sunday.
A month-long version of the creativity of sound will be stopping citizens in their tracks when the Sound Out programme swings into action from trees (Berliner Christa Kubisch at the Vision Centre, inspired by the painting "Battle of the Birds" at the Crawford Gallery), from gates (Londoner Max Eastley with a sonic sculpture at the main gates of UCC), from a litany of historic street names at Wandesford Quay by Scanner of London and from Akio Suzuki's listening trail composed along the city streets.
