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Neil O Connor
Julie Feeney
Past Graduates of MPhil in Music & Media Technologies
Julie Feeney is winner of the Choice Music Prize for ‘Irish Album of the Year' (Ireland's equivalent of the Mercury Music Prize) for her self-produced debut album on which she played most of the instruments herself. Her second album ‘Pages' was shortlisted for the Irish Album Of The Year prize and featured in '101 Irish Albums You Must Hear Before You Die' by Liberties Press. 'Clocks' her third album has also been shortlisted for the Choice Music Prize. Clocks went straight into the Independent Irish Album Charts at No. 1 and was voted ‘Best Album' 2012 in The Irish Times ‘Album of the Year' category for The Ticket Awards as voted by The Irish Times readers. Composed at Ballynahinch Castle and the Lough Inagh Valley Cottages in Galway, it was recorded at Kylemore Abbey Gothic Church, and the Number One album she released in Ireland with an avant-garde approach by scoring her music for ten different choirs in ten different towns over ten different nights in a row. The album was crowd-funded by 209 fans on Fundit.ie and is the most successful crowd-funded project yet on Fundit.
Neil completed his PhD in Composition with Donnacha Dennehy at Trinity College Dublin, where he also holds a Masters in Music and Media Technology, in 2011. Beginning his career as a filmmaker, Neil has been involved in a diverse range of musical activities including folk, jazz, rock, contemporary, experimental, electronic and electro-acoustic music and has toured extensively in Ireland, Europe, Australia, Asia and the US. He has also produced 4 electronic pop albums under the moniker ‘somadrone’. www.iamsomadrone.com. Neil has also scored a large number of documentaries, shorts and feature films for Irish Film Board, some of which winning international prizes. His work was been shown/performed at the Dublin Electronic Arts Festival, Fringe Festival, Resonances Festival @ IRCAM Paris, 60 X 60 NYC, Kunsthalle, Berlin, Massachusetts Museum of Modern Art and the ICA, London. Neil has also been participant in the Bang On a Can Summer School at MASS MOCA. Recent projects include a featuring on Wire Magazine’s Wire Tapper CD, a residency at the Institute of Electro-Acoustic Music, Stockholm, Sweden and collaboration projects at CNMAT – Center for New Music and Audio Technologies, University of California, Berkeley.
Enda Bates is a composer, musician, producer and academic based in Dublin, Ireland. In 2010 he completed a PhD in music composition at Trinity College Dublin, where he now lectures. His research work includes spatial music composition and performance, the aesthetics of electroacoustic music, and the development of music software and hardware such as the hexaphonic guitar and multi-channel granulation algorithms. His work has been performed by, among others, the Crash Ensemble, the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, the National Chamber Choir of Ireland, Anne La Berge, the Doelen Quartet, Trio Scordatura, Darragh Morgan, New Dublin Voices and the Miso Music Loudspeaker Orchestra. He has received various commissions and awards including the 37th Florilege Vocal de Tours, the 2008 Irish National Choir of the Year competition, the 2009 Gaudeamus Music Prize shortlist and the 2010 Música Viva Competition. He is a founder member of the Spatial Music Collective and also regularly performs with the Irish folk-rock band the Spook of the Thirteenth Lock. He has also worked in a technical capacity for artists and ensembles such as the Crash Ensemble, Mumbling Deaf Ro, Somadrone, Jeff Martin and Daniel Figgis. Scores and other material are available from his page at the Irish Contemporary Music Centre.
Linda Buckley is a composer from the Old Head of Kinsale, currently based in Dublin.Her music has been described as “strange and beautiful” (Boston Globe, July 2004), a “fascinating interaction between live sound and electronics” (Irish Times, Nov 2006), with “an exciting body of work that marks her out as a leading figure in the younger generation of Irish composers working in the medium” (Journal of Music, Sept 2008). Her work has been performed by the Dresden Sinfoniker Orchestra, Crash Ensemble, Fidelio Trio, Orkest de Ereprijs, Janus Trio, Rothko Trio, University of York Javanese Gamelan, and featured at international festivals including the Bang on a Can Summer Institute of Music at MassMoCA, Gaudeamus Music Week Amsterdam and Seoul International Computer Music Festival. Linda is a member of the Spatial Music Collective, dedicated to the creation and presentation of spatial acoustic and electroacoustic music. She studied Music at University College Cork, and Music and Media Technologies at Trinity College Dublin. She holds a Ph.D in Composition from Trinity College, where she also lectures.
Enda Bates
Linda Buckley
Jonathan Nangle is a composer whose work explores many diverse fields ranging from notated acoustic and electro-acoustic compositions, through live and spatially distributed electronics, to video, interactive sound installation and electronic improvisation. A graduate of Trinity College Dublin, having obtained a degree in Music and Philosophy (2003) and an M.Phil in Music and Media Technology (2005), he has studied composition with Kevin Volans, Donnacha Dennehy and Rob Canning and Electro-Acoustic composition with Roger Doyle. His work has been commissioned and performed internationally by, amongst others, the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Crash Ensemble, Ensemble Scratch the Surface, The Dublin Guitar Quartet, Ergodos Orchestra, Roberto Oliveira, Darragh Morgan, Thérèse Fahy and David Bremner. In addition, his work has featured at a number of festivals, been choreographed for film (RTÉ Dance on the Box) and stage and has been broadcast internationally both on radio and television.
David is a composer and creative technologist. He holds a Master in Music and Media Technology in Trinity College Dublin and a Mechatronic Engineering degree from Dublin City University. During his time on the Music and Media Technologies programme he studied composition with Linda Buckley and Donnacha Dennehy. He is a member of the Irish Composer’s Collective and was a former co-director and founding member of the Dublin Laptop Orchestra. His work explores the intersection between music, visuals and interactivity. Notable performances of his compositions have been give by orkest de ereprijs, Ensemble Avalon, Kate Ellis and Con Tempo.
David Collier
Jonathan Nangle