| 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 awarded by the Arts Council of Ireland, he completed a
PhD in composition at the University of York in 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 make use of computer-mediated performance strategies
to combine 'live' electronic parts with instrumental or vocal forces.
His fixed media composition often use ‘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.
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