Cárthach Ó Nuanáin is an intermedia, interdisciplinary artist and researcher whose practice is rooted in the sounding world. He lectures at MTU Cork School of Music and is the current course coodinator of the MA/MSc in Music & Technology.
His diverse expertise and interests include computational musicology and music information retrieval; electroacoustic composition, performance and theory; new interfaces; sound art and interactive media. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Music in 2018 from the Music Technology Group at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona where he worked and taught with the Musical and Advanced Interaction Team.
He has presented and performed prize-winning work at festivals and events across all hemispheres, including the Dublin Electronic Arts Festival (DEAF), Darklight Film Festival, New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Sound and Music Computing, Audio Mostly, Sónar International Festival of Advanced Music, Music Tech Fest, Phonos Foundation, Sonic Environments / Australasian Computer Music Conference, Radiophrenia Festival, International Symposium for Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research, Radiophrenia, Radical Humanities and the International Computer Music Conference.
Recent highlights include This Ordered Life Pt.1 (2024), a cross-modal interactive piece for film and spatialised electronics, Wood, Metal & Tension (2023) for violin and ambisonics and Sem Cordas (2021), selected as one of the best electroacoustic works performed at the International Computer Music Conference in Santiago Chile.
