*** RECENT THOUGHTS: *** [IMMERSING A STRING QUARTET IN WATER, AGAIN, ALWAYS] *** [CORPUS-BASED CONCATENATIVE SYNTHESIS] *** [ADAM CURTIS] *** [RADIO CAROLINE] *** [REPLACING SPOTIFY] *** [DAVID SHIELDS’ <EM>REALITY HUNGER</EM>] *** [RADICAL HAPPINESS] *** [PRIVATE MOMENTS IN PUBLIC SPACES] *** [THE OVERSTORY] *** [DAVID GRAEBER] *** [JAMES ACASTER] *** [REAL-TIME CONVERSION OF TWITCH CHAT INTO NOTATION] *** [BUILDING ASTABLE MULTIVIBRATORS] *** [SELF HOSTING A HOMELAB (REDUCING CLOUD DEPENDENCE)] *** [MUSIC IN THE CLIMATE CRISIS] *** [LEARNING TO SING TENOR] *** [ENDING COPYRIGHT] *** [ORLANDO GIBBONS] *** [CYBORG VIOLAS] *** [ANIMATED MUSIC NOTATION] *** END OF TRANSMISSION ***

I’m a composer, viola player and artistic director from Dublin, Ireland. I also run Kirkos and do contract work as a computer music designer. Download and use anything you want from this site. Feel free to get in touch with questions!

Where is the Support for Activist Musicians?

(2024)

article written for Journal of Music on the subject of the lack of institutional support for musicians active against the genocide in Gaza

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Widening the Cracks in the Edifice of Neoliberalism

(2023)

article in the Journal of Music responding to Stephen Graham / CMC amplify podcast

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Strength in numbers: the story of the ICC

(2014)

article for the AIC New Music Journal about the Irish Composers Collective

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