Books
[1] O’Connor, Neil (2025) ‘Microsound & Glitch: Time, Material
and Technology’ (Routledge)
[2] O’Connor, Neil (2022) ‘Dark Waves: The Synthesizer and
the Dystopian Sound of Britain 1977-73 (Rowman & Littlefield)
Chapters
[1] O’Connor, Neil (2025) ‘We are Human Samplers’ -
Technology, Aesthetics and Remain in Light (1980)
(Bloomsbury)
[2] O’Connor, Neil (2020) ‘Engineering Authenticity: The
Aesthetics of DSP Modeling in Mastering Plugins – Mastering in
Music (Taylor & Francis).
Journals
[1] O’Connor, Neil (2025) ‘Elaine Radigiue and the ARP 2500’,
Tempo (Cambridge University Press).
[2] O’Connor, Neil (2022) ‘Reissue & Revivalism: Uncovering
Ireland's Lost DIY, Electronic and Post-Punk Histories', Irish
Communication Review: Vol. 18: Iss. 1, Article 6.
[3] O’Connor Neil (2019) ‘Material & Medium: An Examination
of Sound Recycling in Oval’s 94 diskont – Organised Sound
(Cambridge Core)
[4] O’Connor, Neil (2018) ‘Diffusing the Norm – Brian Eno’s
Music for Airports’ – Center for Research in New Music
(Divergence Press)
[5] O’Connor, Neil (2012) Between Thought and Expression –
Composer, Performer and Graphic Notation, Journal of
Postgraduate Research (Trinity College)
[6] O’Connor, Neil (2011) Communication through Notation’
Journal of Postgraduate Research (Trinity College)
Conference Papers
1] “Dark Waves", IASPM (International Association for the
Study of Popular Music) AGM, University of Newcastle,
October 2024
[2] "Reconnections: Emulation, Aesthetics & The Modular
Synthesizer", 2nd Symposium on Digital Arts, University
College Cork, May 2024
[3] ""Kwadian: Sound Installation" Sound Studies Group, Kyoto
University of the Arts, Japan, April 2024
[4] "Current Trends in Modular Synthesis Architecture", ICMC,
International Computer Music Conference, Shenzhen, China,
November 2023
[5] "INA/GRM: Early Audio Processing Tools". AES Audio
Engineering Society AGM, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland,
August 2023
[6] "Radigue at 90", Columbia University (Global Paris), June
2023
[7] "Sonic Psychology: Modular Synthesis & its use in Modern
Film Scores". Music and Moving Image Conference, New York
University, June 2023
[8] "Electronic Music and Uncut Gems (2019)" Contemporary
Screen Music and Sound Production, New York University
(Online), May 2023
[9] "Reconnections – Modular Synthesizers and Electroacoustic
Music" Noise Floor, Staffordshire University (Online), April
2022
[10] "Reconnections and Revivalism: Electroacoustic Music &
Modular Synthesis", EMS 21 (Electroacoustic Music Network)
Conferences, De Montfort University (Online), March 2022
[11] "DMRN+15": Digital Music Research Network 1-Day
Workshop (Online), Queen Mary University of London,
November 2021
[12] "E.A.R.S". (Electronic Auditory Research Seminar)(Online),
Harvard University, Boston, September 2021
[13]"Joint Conference on AI Music Creativity", Royal Institute of
Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden, May 2021
[14] "Conduits of Control – Brian Eno’s Discreet Music". ISPAM
International Conference, Berkeley School of Music, Boston,
July 2019
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[15] "Reconnections – Modular Synthesizers and Electroacoustic
Music". EMAS Conference, University of Greenwich, May 2019
[16] "Anti Hero – Serge Gainsbourg’s Le Homme Et Chou”.
International Conference on Serge Gainsbourg – Sorbonne
University, Paris, May 2019
[17] "New Musical Artefacts – The New York School of
Composers".17th International Conference of Association of
RIDDIM, Repertoire of Musical Iconography, Music Library of
Greece, Athens, September 2018
[18] "Graphic Notation - Space & Time’ Sounding Out the
Space". School of Creative Arts, Dublin Institute of Technology,
Dublin, May 2018
[19] "Virtual Scores – Platforms and Possibilities". SMI
International Conference of Musicology, Queen Mary University,
London, January 2018
[20] "Futurism and the Electronic Music Score". Music and the
Moving Image Conference, New York University, September
2017
[21] "New Musical Artifacts - The New York School of
Composers".17th International Conference of Association of
RIDDIM, Repertoire of Musical Iconography, Music Library of
Greece, Athens, August 2017
[22] "Graphic Notation - Space & Time". Sounding Out the
Space – School of Creative Arts, Dublin Institute of Technology,
Dublin, April 2017
[23] "Virtual Scores – Platforms and Possibilities". SMI
International Conference of Musicology, Queen Mary University,
London, March 2017
[24] "Electric Dawn – The Advent and History of Irish
Electroacoustic Music". SMI – Society of Musicology Ireland
AGM, Queen's University, Belfast, April 2017
[25] "Control and Communication Through Notation".
International Performance Analysis Conference, University of
Porto, Portugal, April 2017
[26] "New Musical Artifacts – The New York School of
Composers". Music and Visual Cultures International
Conference, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, February
2017
[27] "Erstwhile – Electroacoustic Music and Virtual Scores".
International Festival for Artistic Innovation, University of
3
Leeds, October 2016
[28] "Scores in Space – Notation, the Performer, Interpretation
and Improvisation". ICAD in Space, Interactive Spatial
Sonification, University of Graz, Austria, July 2015
[29] "Planes of Invention – Plotting Landscapes in
Electroacoustic Music". INTIME Contemporary Music Festival,
University of Coventry, June 2015
[30] "Electric Dawn – The Advent of Irish Electroacoustic
Music", Journal of Music Ireland Conference (Online), March
2015
[31] "Aesthetics: Graphic Notation Systems" Music Department,
New York University, August 2014
[32] "New Music Artifacts". Research Symposium on
Performance Studies, Center for New Music and Audio
Technologies, University of California, Berkeley, July 2104
[33] "Schematic Processing in Notation and Performance".
Society of Musicology, 2nd Post Graduates Students Conference
Ireland, University College Dublin, Dublin, September 2013
[34] "Kinetic Notation: The Changing relationship between
Composer and Performer" Science Week, Trinity College,
Dublin, June 2012
[35] "New Music and the Role of the Young Composer".
Programming of New Music, Contemporary Music Center,
Dublin, April 2012
[36] "Methods of Experimental Notation Developed in the Early
Works by Earle Brown and Morton Feldman (1950 – 1959)".
Composers Conference, KZM Center for New Media, Karlsruhe,
Germany, May 2011
[37] "Morton Feldman and his relationship with the Abstract
Expressionist Painters in New York 1950-60". Composers
Conference, Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival, Museum of
Modern Art, Massachusetts, September 2010
[38] "Notating Electronic Music – Strategies". Resonances
Festival, Berlin, April 2010.
Research Grants & Awards
(2024) Music Network Capital Grant
(2023) Arts Council of Ireland: Bursary Award
(2022) Arts Council of Ireland: Agility Award
(2022) Fingal County Council: Artists Support Grant
(2022) Culture Ireland: International Showcase Award
(2022) Faculty of Science & Engineering, University of
Limerick: Capital Grant Award
(2021) Music Current Festival: Music Commission
(2020) Arts Council of Ireland. Music Bursary Award
(2020) Association of Irish Composers: Music Commissions
Award
(2020) Music From Ireland: Album Stimulus Grant
(2020) Goethe Institute: Music Commission Award
(2019) Arts Council of Ireland: Travel and Training Award
(2019) RTÉ Radió na Gaeltachta: Music Commission
(2018) Health Service Executive: Sound Art Installation Grant
(2018) Limerick City & County Council: Music Commission
Award
(2017) Crawford Art Gallery
(2017) Dublin City Council / Fáilte Ireland: Touring Award
(2017) Music Network: Music Capital Scheme
(2017) Arts Council of Ireland: Travel and Training Award
(2016) Film Board of Ireland: Music Commission
(2016) Arts Council of Ireland: Travel and Training Award
(2014) Dundalk Institute of Technology: Creative Arts Bursary
(2013) New York Foundation for the Arts: Artist Fellowship
(2010) University of California (Berkeley): Composer Residency
(2010) Ossian Foundation for New Music. Travel and Training
Award
(2008) Arts Council of Ireland: Music Project Bursary
(2008) Arts Council of Ireland: Travel and Training Award
(2005-10) Trinity College - Usher Fellowship
Awards (Composition)
Noroit-Léonce Petitot (Arras, France), Euphonie D’Or des
Concours International de Musique Electroacoustique (France)
Musica Nova Electroacoustic Music Competition, (Czech
Republic)
Concurso Internacional de Música Eletroacústica de São Paulo
(Brazil)
Spécial jury mention: Prix Ars Electronica and Euphonie D’Or
des Concours International de Musique Électroacoustique,
Bourges (France).
Collaborative Work
Crash Works - Crash Ensemble Commission 2024
Roger Doyle - Ordnance Survey Turas LP 2023
Iarla O Lionaird - Ordnance Survey Biofeedback Suite 2024
Paul Roe - Music Current Festival Commission 2021
Donal Lunny - Ordnance Survey Ampere LP 2020
Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh-Ordnance Survey Ampere LP 2020
Cormac Mac Duirmada (Lankum) - Ordnance Survey Ampere LP 2
Crash Ensemble - Ordnance Survey Ampere LP 2020
Linda Buckley - Ordnance Survey Relative Phase LP 2019
Irene Buckey - Without Name OST 2016
Sean Mac Erlaine - Ordnance Survey Relative Phase LP 2019
John Mc Entire (Tortoise) Ordnance Survey Ampere LP 2020
Phillip Glass Ensemble - David Crowell - 2012
RTE Symphony Orchestra - RTE Film Score Award - 2001
Barry Adamson - Magazine / Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Live
Film Score 2019
Bang on a Can Ensemble 2008
Glenn Branca Ensemble 2015
Donnacha Dennehy - Gra Agus Bas - 2012
Iarla O Lionaird - Gra Agus Bas - 2012
Martin Healy (Visual Artist) - A Moment Lived Twice 2012
Lorcan Finnegan (Filmmaker) - Foxes & Without Name OST
2011/2015
Eoghan Kidney (Filmmaker/VR Artist) - Stars 2005
David Tynan (Filmmaker) - The Cherishing OST 2010
Aine Stapleton (Artist) - Medicated Milk OST 2015
Musical Works
Yōkai (2024) Sound Installation 70’ - Premiere, Kyoto University
of the Arts, Japan. Premiere: 05/05/24
The Last Broadcast (2024) For Clarinet, Flute and Electronics -
3’ (Crash Ensemble) Premiere: New Music Dublin, 20/08/24
Frisson / Rapture (2021) For Bass Clarinet and Electronics - 8’
40” - Premiere: Music Network Festival, Dublin, 8/11/21
Bog Braon (2020) For Cello, Double Bass and Electronics -
9’20”. Premiere: Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, 5/9/20
Noon in Seia (2020) Electro-Acoustic (Octophonic) - 12’ 24”
Premiere: SARC, Queen's University, Belfast, 18/05/20.
Warming Up (2019) Electro-Acoustic (Octophonic) - 9’ 18”.
Premiere: Conservatory of Music, Seia, Portugal, 10/04/19.
Porters Whistle (2019) - Electro-Acoustic (Octophonic) - 7’ 30”.
Premiere: Berkeley School of Music, Boston, 02/09/19.
Erstwhile (2018) Electro-Acoustic (Octophonic) 9’23′′. Premiere
NYCEMF (New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival),
12/05/18.
For Delia (2018) - Electro-Acoustic (Octophonic) - 5’36”.
Premiere: ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art), London
Wirefires (2018) - Electro-Acoustic (Octophonic) - 7’54”.
Premiere: Center for New Music and Audio Technologies,
University of California – Berkeley, CA
Etoile Noie (2016) - Ensemble and Electronics – 25”. Premiere:
CellSpace, New York, 21/05/17
Fex Valley (2016) – Saxophone and Electronics – 9’ Premiere:
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams,
Mass
The Accent (2016) – Electro-Acoustic – 12’10” Premiere:
Swedish Institute for Electro-Acoustic Music, Stockholm
Electro-Acoustic – 18’04 Premiere: Swedish Institute for Electro-Ac
Distance (2012)– Electro-Acoustic – 4’12
Somnus (2012) - String Quartet and Electronics - 9’12′′
The First Wave (2012) – Electro-Acoustic – 18’
Immersion (2011) – Electro-Acoustic – 12’
Neighbours (2011) – Electro-Acoustic – 24’
Block / Static / Mass (2011) – Large Ensemble
& Electronics – 16’35”. Premiere: Bang On a Can Ensemble,
Massachusetts Museum of Modern Art
Passing/Parting /Release (2010) Large Ensemble & Electronics
16’10”
Radio Aurora (2009) – For Saxophone and Electronics – 10’
Tap / Thread / Trip (2008) – For Flute, Oboe Clarinet, Bassoon,
Piano 5’23”
Mirado (2007) For Vibraphone, Marimba, Piano, Cello and
tympani – 10’05”
Rounder’s (2007) For Dublin Guitar Quartet – 1’21”
Framed Motion (2007) For String Quartet and Electronics – 15’
46”
Death to our Foe (2007) Electro-Acoustic – 10′
Approximate Motion (2006) For S.A.T.B and Electronics – 12’
53”
On Motion (2006) For Electronics – 7’
Modular Motion (2006) For Piano, Vibraphone & Electronic
10’28”
Close your fields (2005) For Piano and Electronics – 5’ 33”
Winter Refractions (2005) For Flute & Vibraphone – 4’ 20”
Trip to Solaris (2005) For S.A.T.B and Electronics – 6’ 20”
The Glistening Bridge (2004) For Vibraphone, Cello, Viola, Alto
Sax, Piano, And Electronics – 5’ 36”
Exits (2003) – For Voice and Shaker – 5’ 20”
Light Play (2003) – For Organ and Electronics – 6’10”
Eastern / Western (2003) – For Electronics – 3’20”
Recorded Works
Depth of Field, Released (23/06/10)
Oracle, Released 10/05/15)
Of Pattern and Purpose, Released (01/07/07)
Field Work, Released (15/11/21)
Ampere, Released (01/10/20)
The First Wave, Released
Nomos - O’Riada Re-imagined, Released (25/10/22)
Turas, Released (22/11/23) S
Wellpark Avenue, Released (23/04/18)
Relative Phase, Released (09/05/19)
Biofeedback Suite, Released (14/11/24)
Residencies / Workshops
Guest Lectures
(2022) Williem Twell Studios, Holland - Studio Residency
(2022) University of Cape Town, South Africa - Workshop
(2022-) National Concert Hall - Studio Residency
(2021) IRCAM, Paris - Workshop
(2020) Trinity College, Department of Music: Guest Lecture
(2017) Festival Dias de Música Electroacústica / Conservatório
de Música de Seia, Portugal – Composer Residency
(2016) VICC: Visby International Center for Composers,
Gotland, Sweden Composer Residency
(2014) CMC: Contemporary Music Center - Composition
Workshop
(2013) New York University, Department of Music; Guest
Lecture
(2012) Princeton University, Department of Music; Guest
Lecture
(2012) ICMC – International Conference for Computer Music,
Slovenia – Composer Workshop: 2012
(2011) ZKM – Center for Art and Media – Composition
Workshops, Karlsruhe, Germany
(2010) CNMAT – Center for New Music and Audio
Technologies – University of California – Berkeley,
Collaboration Project and Composer Workshop
(2001) Massachusetts Museum of Modern Art, Bang on a Can
Festival, Composer Residency
(2010) SARC – Sonic Arts Research Center: Queen's
University, Belfast, Ireland: Sonorities Festival
(2009) EMS – Swedish Institute for Electro-Acoustic Music,
Stockholm, Composer Residency
(2008) ICA – Institute of Contemporary Art, London,
Composition Workshop
(2007) IRCAM – Resonances Festival / Research Participant
Paris
(2007) Varese Award for Ambient Music: South Tipperary Arts
Council
(2002) Sligo New Music Festival Fellowship
(2001) RTE / IMRO Film Score Award: National Symphony