The Absence of Baudrillard

This improvisation was first performed in a bookshop in Mainz, Germany, to commemorate the passing of French philosopher Jean Baudrillard. Seven years later, this album reworks the source material.

Digital Instrument Fundamentals

This module was for the undergraduate students in Music, Media and Performance Technology at the Digital Media Research Centre (DMARC), University of Limerick. It covered the essentials of music theory and notation. The engraving software Sibelius was used to score an original composition.

Hearing as Science-Fiction

Talk given at the Hearsay Audio Arts Festival, Kilfinane, Co. Limerick.

The mysterious and wonderful complexity of our acoustic sense is explored by considering psychoacoustic effects. Several radical propositions are made. The ear is itself a digital apparatus. Hearing is acoustic time-travel, an impossible activity that we nonetheless take for granted.