FERGAL DOWLING
Fergal Dowling is a composer of electroacoustic and instrumental music. He studied composition at Trinity College Dublin and with the assistance of the Elizabeth Maconchy Composition Fellowship he completed a PhD in composition at the University of York (2006). He has lectured in music technology and his work as a researcher has produced software-based composition aids and audio processing tools dealing with sound spatialisation and real-time interaction.
Many of his works are for soloists or small ensembles and make use of computer-mediated performance strategies to combine real-time electronic parts with instrumental or vocal forces. His fixed-media compositions often make use of ‘granular spatialisation’ to render multichannel works.
His works have been presented in concert and as installations in Ireland, England, Germany, Sweden, Canada, the USA, Spain, Portugal, Brazil and Japan and he has performed his own computer-based interactive music with various groups including Ex-Machina (Bra), Concorde (Ire), Ensemble Chimera (Eng), Projektgruppe Neue Musik Bremen (Ger), Electro Acoustic Revue (Ire), Grup XXI (Esp), notes inégales (Eng) and Dublin Sound Lab (Ire).
Together with the organist Michael Quinn, he co-founded Dublin Sound Lab in 2008, a group specialising in computer-mediated music performance.