In 1988 Roger Doyle was asked to compose the music for the Gate Theatre's production of Oscar Wilde's Salomé. On the opening night much of the music was improvised but through the years and after many performances the music has become more fixed. Performed by the composer, the music on this recording has undergone small changes so that it can exist independently to the theatre production.

Roger Doyle's Under the Green Time: 'An image of Ireland without the sweet Celtic wrapping, an ancient, hard Ireland, a kind of musical archaeology.' This programme of acoustic, electro-acoustic and traditional music was recorded live in The Hague in 1999 by the Netherlands Wind Ensemble with Brian Ó hUiginn (uilleann pipes), Sarah Grealish (vocals) and Roger Doyle (electronics).

By the new time is a compilation of Irish electro-acoustic music. It contains the work of several composers, some of which are former students of Trinity College Dublin's Music and Media Technology Courses. Among the composers featured are Roger Doyle, Donnacha Dennehy, Michael Alcorn, Jürgen Simpson and Judith Ring. The disc also presents works from a number of up-and-coming composers including Conor Curran, Caoimhe Dunn, Patrick Daly, Giles Packham, J. Bassetti and Roy Carroll.

The music on this CD represents the early works of Roger Doyle (b. 1949) – pieces composed in the late 1960s to mid 70s and re-mastered in 2002. The earliest piece is the second part of ‘Bitter-Sweet Suite’ composed when he was 18, and the latest ‘Thalia’, his first large-scale piece, composed at the age of 26.