Well, you can't get much more intimate than your own home. That's where musician Dennis McNulty is planning to play on his 'Anti-tour' as part of this week's Dublin Electronic Arts Festival (Deaf).

McNulty has issued an open call to anyone living in Dublin city centre apartments built during the 1990s to invite him to play in-house. In return for a meal, he will play to you and your friends in your very own sitting-room, amplifying his electronic music on the home stereo for around 40 minutes, ending at midnight.

"Part of the idea comes from being in a band, playing in venues, touring, the kind of homogeneity of that, " McNulty said of the thinking behind his plans to play living-rooms across the capital. "An interest I have in acoustics developed into an interest in architecture and another part of it is to see the insides of buildings, how people inhabit them and also what people see from their buildings."

The singling out of blocks of apartments built in the '90s stems from McNulty's interest in the changes in Dublin's physical make-up since he was a child.

"The way it has changed over the last 15 years is huge, dramatic, " he said. "Going into town when I was young, you'd drive up the quays and every second building didn't exist, and others were just boarded up. I'm trying to give an explanation of the subsequent development . . . ten years after a lot of those apartment buildings have been built, what has happened to them?"

Each performance will be unique. "I'll try to create a soundtrack that exists for a particular time and place, the piece of music will exist then and never again, " he said.

This is the second time McNulty has undertaken such a venture, having toured Brazil last January in a similar fashion with huge success. The performer admits there has been less reaction from Dublin residents, but those who are interested can still get in touch by visiting his website.

The first in-apartment performance takes place on Wednesday, while McNulty will also take his project to Derry next month.

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