Practice-based Research Outputs

Music Compositions, Performances & Installations

1. Bacteriophage in Granular Waves — 2025; upcoming 2026.

   Performances / installations:

   • xCoAx 2026, Torino, July 2026.
   • AM.ICAD 2025 Joint Conference of Audio Mostly and the ICAD, Coimbra, Portugal, July 2025.

2. Thonis-Heracleion, peaceful beneath the waves — 2023/2024/2025/2026.

   Performances / installations:

   • With The Distance of Blue at Millennium Film Workshop, New York, March 2026.
   • The Distance of Blue Pavilion at The Wrong Biennale 2025. Curated by Ping Ho, November–December 2025.
   • Sound of the Anthropocene, Alphabet Art Center, The New Museum of Networked Art, Cologne, Germany, July 13–August 30, 2024.
   • Leviathan album launch, Radical Humanities Laboratory, October 6, 2023.

3. The Life and Death of Terminus Abruptus — 2026.

   Performances / installations:

   • The Metatopia Pavilion, The Wrong Biennale. Curated by Aisthesis, February 2026.

4. Noise for Waves & Grains — 2025.

   Performances / installations:

   • IEEE Internet of Sounds Concert at the 10th Edition of the ElettroAQustica Festival, Conservatorio “A. Casella” of L’Aquila, Italy, October 2025.

Signal to Noise Loops Collection

1. Signal to Noise Loops — 2023/2025.

   Performances / installations:

   • Alternating Current Festival 2025: Urban Scores, Dublin, May 2025.

2. Signal to Noise Loops v6 — 2024.

   Performances / installations:

   • The 2nd Symposium on Digital Art in Ireland, The Aula Maxima, University College Cork, June 13, 2024.

3. Signal to Noise Loops v5 / v5.1 — 2023.

   Performances / installations:

   • Signal to Noise Loops v5, Metatopia — Hybrid Spaces Pavilion at The Wrong Biennale 2023. Curated by Luciana de Paula Santos, Aisthesis Lab, November 2023–March 2024.
   • Signal to Noise Loops v5.1, UbiMus2023 International Symposium on Ubiquitous Music, Ulster University, Derry, November 2–4, 2023.

4. Signal to Noise Loops v5: Breathing Space — 2022.

   Performances / installations:

   • Earth Rising Eco Art Festival, Irish Museum of Modern Art, October 21–23, 2022.

5. Signal to Noise Loops v4 — 2021–2022.

   Performances / installations:

   • International Conference on Auditory Display, 2022.
   • S3 of the Video Sound Archive, February 2022.
   • Culture Night Dublin, September 2021.
   • Audio Mostly, Trento, Italy, September 2021.
   • International Computer Music Conference, Santiago, Chile, July 2021.
   • New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, New York, July 2021.

6. Signal to Noise Loops 3++ — 2018.

   Performances / installations:

   • ISSTA 2018, Derry, September 2018.

7. Signal to Noise Loops i2+: Noise Water Dirt — 2018.

   Performances / installations:

   • CSMC 2018, Dublin, August 2018.

8. Signal to Noise Loops i++ Live — 2018.

   Performances / installations:

   • xCoAx 2018, Madrid.

9. Dublin City Noise Loops — 2025.

   Performances / installations:

   • Alternating Current Festival 2025: Urban Scores, Dublin, May 2025.

10. Noise Loops for Laptop, Improvised Electric Guitar and Dublin City Noise Level Data — 2017.

    Performances / installations:

    • Sonic Dreams 2017, Sonic Arts Waterford, September 30, 2017.

Jean-Luc Nancy Collection

1. The Body in the Machine: Indices Online — 2021/2022.

   Performances / installations:

   • International Computer Music Conference, Limerick, Ireland, 2022.
   • xCoAx 2021, Graz and online, July 12–16, 2021.

2. Indices Online (UX & ML) — 2020.

   Performances / installations:

   • NIME 2020, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, July 21–25, 2020.

3. 58 Indices On The Body: A Reflection on Translations through Language, Technology and Sounds — 2019.

   Performances / installations:

   • Selected Indices Soundworks and Musical Pieces with Sentiment Analysis, ISSTA 2019, Cork School of Music, October 2019.

4. Jean-Luc Nancy Indices 21, 7 and 3 — 2015.

   Performances / installations:

   • With AMAE/De Pinto and Jean-Luc Nancy, Helicotrema Recorded Audio Festival, Pinault Foundation, Punta Della Dogana / Palazzo Grassi, November 4, 2015.

Zones Collection

1. Zones 1 — 2016.

   Performances / installations:

   • With Alan Dormer, Irish Sound Science and Technology Convocation, Ulster University, September 7–9, 2016.

2. Zones 1.5 — 2016.

   Performances / installations:

   • With Alan Dormer, International Digital Empathy Workshop, Ulster University, October 31, 2016.

Music for Dance and Stage Collection

1. Hear This Dance — 2017 — dance/stage composition.

   Performances / installations:

   • Dance House for Dance Ireland Residency, with Niall Vallely and Sibeal Davitt, September 14, 2017.

2. Fógraím / I Proclaim — 2016 — dance/stage composition.

   Performances / installations:

   • With Sibéal Davitt and Tristan Rosenstock, Embodied, The GPO Witness History Centre, April 20–22, 2016.
   • With Sibéal Davitt and Tristan Rosenstock, The Cube, NUIG, September 22, 2016.

3. Eleven — 2011 — dance/stage composition.

   Performances / installations:

   • With Amy Prendergast, The Irish World Academy, Limerick, 2011.

4. (You)th Share — 2010 — dance/stage composition.

   Performances / installations:

   • With Legitimate Bodies Dance Company, Cristina Golletti and Nick Bryson, Birr Theatre & Arts Centre, 2010.

5. Romeo & Juliet — 2010 — dance/stage composition.

   Performances / installations:

   • With Legitimate Bodies Dance Company, Cristina Golletti and Nick Bryson, Birr Theatre & Arts Centre, 2010.

6. Pinocchio – Dance of the Long Nose — 2009 — dance/stage composition.

   Performances / installations:

   • With Legitimate Bodies Dance Company, Cristina Golletti and Nick Bryson, Birr Theatre & Arts Centre, 2009.

Contemporary & Electroacoustic Collection

1. Idle Hands – A 31-Part Exploration Of Irish Unemployment From 1983–2014 In G Major — 2014; 2021 compilation appearance.

   Performances / installations:

   • Premiere of TIDES: An ISSTA Anthology, 2021.
   • Irish Sound Signal and Technology Convocation, NUI Maynooth, Ireland, August 2014.

2. The Good Ship Hibernia — 2017.

   Performances / installations:

   • Alternating Current Festival 2025: Urban Scores, Dublin, May 2025.
   • Audio Mostly, Queen Mary University London, August 23–26, 2017.
   • ICAD Concert, Playhouse Theatre, Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA, June 20–23, 2017.

3. Doom & Gloom — 2015.

   Performances / installations:

   • Irish Sound Science and Technology Convocation, UL & MIC, Limerick, Ireland, August 12–13, 2015.
   • Sound and Music Computing Concert, NUI Maynooth, Ireland, July 30–August 1, 2015.
   • International Community for Auditory Display Concert, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria, July 8–10, 2015.
   • Contemporary Music Centre Spring Salon Series, National Concert Hall, Kevin Barry Room, March 24, 2015.

4. Extensive Structure no. 1 — 2015.

   Performances / installations:

   • Contemporary Music Centre Spring Salon Series, National Concert Hall, Kevin Barry Room, March 24, 2015.

5. The Human Cost — 2015.

   Performances / installations:

   • Contemporary Music Centre Spring Salon Series, National Concert Hall, Kevin Barry Room, March 24, 2015.

6. opening to the ambient light — 2022/2023.

   Performances / installations:

   • Becoming-Machine Pavilion at The Wrong Biennale 2023. Curated by Isil Ezgi Celik, CapitArt, November 2023–March 2024. Physical exhibition at Artsect Gallery, London, November 2023.

7. Symmetric Relations and Hidden Rotations — 2016.

   Performances / installations:

   • Irish Sound Science and Technology Convocation, Ulster University, September 7–9, 2016.
   • Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music, Belfast, November 24–26, 2016.

8. Deslitary: The Ghost of Lochmarne — 2013.

   Performances / installations:

   • With Daniel O’Connor, online video/music, 2013.

Student Compositions

1. Will & Implementation — 2011.

   Performances / installations:

   • DAWN 2011, DMARC, University of Limerick, 2011.

2. Bike — 2010.

   Performances / installations:

   • DMARC, University of Limerick, 2010.

3. Shifting Sands — 2010.

   Performances / installations:

   • DMARC, University of Limerick, 2010.

4. Fúsball — 2009.

   Performances / installations:

   • DMARC, University of Limerick, 2009.

Discography: Albums / EPs

1. Corpus/Mimesis w/AMAE, Pier Giorgio De Pinto & Jean-Luc Nancy. — 2025 — Label: Fiadh Productions, FP489.

   39.1 Corpus
   39.2 21, 7 & 3
   39.3 Neuf
   39.4 Quinze
   39.5 Dix-huit
   39.6 Vingt-et-un
   39.7 Vingt-deux
   39.8 Vingt-quatre
   39.9 Vingt-sept
   39.10 Trente-deux
   39.11 Quarante-cinq
   39.12 Quarante-six
   39.13 Quarante-sept
   39.14 Cinquante-et-un
   39.15 15, 22, 27, 32, 45, 46 & 9

2. Stardust Sonata — 2024 — Label: Fiadh Productions, FP294.

   40.1 Loomings
   40.2 Stardust Sonata
   40.3 Glorious Friend
   40.4 Lamenting the Deep
   40.5 Stardust Sonata Reprise
   40.6 Last Fracture

3. Connemara Chaos — 2024 compilation appearance on From Dreams to Living Things II: Brawling Sparrows Brilliant Moon — Label: Fiadh Productions. The track originally appeared on Jupiter.

4. Leviathan — 2023 — Label: Fiadh Productions, FP197.

   42.1 Thonis-Heracleion, peaceful beneath the waves
   42.2 A Piteraq over Tasiilaq
   42.3 There are 99 miles of caves below the Burren
   42.4 The Shining of Karakum
   42.5 Leviathan

5. Idle Hands — 2021 compilation appearance on TIDES: An ISSTA Anthology — Label: Stolen Mirror. The piece also appears on The Human Cost.

6. Der Kardinal — 2019 compilation appearance on Dead Leaves – Charity Compilation — Label/issuer: Brutal Resonance. The track also appears on Wave Grid.

7. Signal to Noise Loops — 2023 — self-released / Stephen Roddy Bandcamp.

   45.1 Whispering Signals
   45.2 Loopscape #1
   45.3 v4: A Quiet Year
   45.4 61years
   45.5 Faint First Noise
   45.6 Soma
   45.7 Signal to Noise Loops i++
   45.8 Dublin City Noise Loops
   45.9 v5: Breathing Space

8. Darkness Visible – EP — 2022 — self-released / Stephen Roddy Bandcamp.

   46.1 No Light, But Rather
   46.2 Darkness Visible
   46.3 Farewell Hope
   46.4 Loftiest Towers
   46.5 opening to the ambient light

9. 30 Epoch Opus – EP — 2021 — self-released / Stephen Roddy Bandcamp.

   47.1 Movement 1 – Electronic Themes
   47.2 Interlude – Noise Patterns
   47.3 Movement 2 – Acoustic Variations
   47.4 100 Epoch Opus

10. Jupiter — 2021 — self-released / Stephen Roddy Bandcamp.

    48.1 Ignite the Core
    48.2 Micromégas
    48.3 Connemara Chaos
    48.4 Jupiter
    48.5 Atmospheric Collapse
    48.6 Search Party
    48.7 SIGIL
    48.8 Great Conjunction
    48.9 The Wandering Moon
    48.10 33 years (texture 1)

11. Wave Grid — 2019 — self-released / Stephen Roddy Bandcamp.

    49.1 TigerBlood433
    49.2 Passing Wave
    49.3 Carpenter’s Hill
    49.4 Crashing Wave
    49.5 Der Kardinal
    49.6 Closing Wave
    49.7 Wave Peak
    49.8 Rolling Tides
    49.9 Mary’s Sojourn
    49.10 I Didn’t Think that it Would Matter

12. The Human Cost: A Sonification of Ireland’s Economic Crash — 2016 — Trinity College Dublin / Stephen Roddy Bandcamp.

    50.1 Coldwater Pass
    50.2 The Human Cost
    50.3 Idle Hands – A 31-Part Exploration Of Irish Unemployment From 1983–2014 In G Major
    50.4 Doom & Gloom
    50.5 The Good Ship Hibernia and the Hole in the Bottom of the World (Original)
    50.6 The Good Ship Hibernia and the Hole in the Bottom of the World (Guitar)

13. Purple Waves — 2016 — self-released / Stephen Roddy Bandcamp.

    51.1 Meant to Last: Clockwork Steel
    51.2 Dig if you Will
    51.3 Way Back
    51.4 Sketch 2: Improvised Guitar Take 1
    51.5 Improvisation Loop A
    51.6 Improvisation Loop B
    51.7 Sea Sketch
    51.8 Loop C
    51.9 I.W.U.D.

14. Untitled #1 — 2015 — self-released / Stephen Roddy Bandcamp.

    52.1 Clones
    52.2 The Wind
    52.3 Barber’s Day Off
    52.4 The Gates of Spring
    52.5 Swinging Breath
    52.6 Autumn’s King
    52.7 Tiny Little Places
    52.8 Legacy
    52.9 Mary’s Day Out
    52.10 Maya – Mary’s Theme 2016
    52.11 Bow Bridge
    52.12 Swinging Breath Original
    52.13 Tiny Little Places Original
    52.14 Barber’s Day Off Original
    52.15 Legacy Original
    52.16 The Wind Original
    52.17 Autumn’s King Original
    52.18 Vale
    52.19 Vale String Bite Version
    52.20 Vale Original

15. Natural Drift — 2015 — self-released / Stephen Roddy Bandcamp.

    53.1 Symmetric Relations and Hidden Rotations an Extensive Structure
    53.2 Three Years
    53.3 Ablaze with Hope and Free
    53.4 Birth of an Island
    53.5 Natural Drift
    53.6 Percolating Patterns
    53.7 Carve My Name
    53.8 Mary ATS
    53.9 Oakside Park
    53.10 The Tether

16. Terminus Abruptus — 2014 — self-released / Stephen Roddy Bandcamp.

    54.1 The Life and Death of Terminus Abruptus
    54.2 Terminus Abruptus and the Bang Bang Bangs
    54.3 The Long Awaited Return of Terminus Abruptus
    54.4 Terminus Abruptus and the Bride of FUNKNST31N Remix
    54.5 Terminus Abruptus Defeats the Wolves at the End of Time
    54.6 Terminus Abruptus: The Fence at the Edge of Doom Remix
    54.7 Winter’s March
    54.8 One Hot Minute
    54.9 The Electric Hammer

17. Line-in: R — 2014 — self-released / Stephen Roddy Bandcamp.

    55.1 Extensive Structure No 1: Back Inside
    55.2 Mūlamadhyamakakārikā
    55.3 No Outpost: Cellular Storm
    55.4 Stormchaser
    55.5 Babulus ex machina.
    55.6 Magicicada
    55.7 De Vivo Vivens in Musica: A Treatise on Living Music
    55.8 Nova Ratio Mortis in Musica: A New Definition of Death in Music
    55.9 Extensive Structure Number 2 – Broken Places
    55.10 Out of the Cold

18. Alethia — 2013 — self-released / Stephen Roddy Bandcamp.

    56.1 Transmatic
    56.2 Verora’s Grace
    56.3 Echoes of Ananke
    56.4 Deslitary: The Ghost of Lochmarne
    56.5 Ptolemy’s Telescope
    56.6 Phase Locking Waves
    56.7 Marienne
    56.8 Alethia
    56.9 Tracker
    56.10 Thalassian Wynne
    56.11 Nightling