Stephen Roddy
@stephenroddy
Critical Sound and Music Computing Researcher: Media Engineering X Experimental Music Practice. @radhumslab.bsky.social & Digital Humanities Department @ucc.ie
The experience of contemporary computational art against the backdrop of the Palazzo Madama’s collection is really striking #xcoax2026
New music on the way! I finally finished the follow up to Leviathan 3 years later. Won’t be out straight away but will be out soon enough.
My new composition 'The Artificer' debuts at the Dream Journal Institute's Public Domain Film Festival under the moniker Leviathan. It's the first in a forthcoming series of works building on the palette developed for the initial Leviathan album released in 2023 See the film here: bit.ly/4dM3y5g
You wouldn’t believe the comments under this objectively funny Ryanair tweet on the other site:
While Ted was never up to much this is still exceedingly bad. Not linking the video because yuck, but here’s the thumbnail:
Many thanks to everyone who got involved for the 3rd Symposium on Digital Art in Ireland. We enjoyed a great line-up of talks all topped of with the opening of Basil Al-Rawi’s spectacular House of Memory exhibition at Sample Studios. @uccresearch.bsky.social
We just had www.conceptnull.org at #DHUCC delivering intro workshops to TouchDesigner and ESP32. It was an absolute blast with an inspiring group of artists. Thanks to Scott & Walt for all their hard work @artscouncilireland.bsky.social for supporting and Emer Yip for organising & facilitating.
I’m talking to Martin on Shush this coming Monday at 11am on UCC98.3FM. We’ll be chatting music, research and libraries with a nice playlist lined up. Tune in! www.ucc.ie/en/983fm/
At Richard Dawson tonight and it was nice to be reminded that the electric guitar is in fact: electric.
Nice shot of the debut performance of ‘Noise for Waves and Grains’ from the IEEE concerts for the ElettroAQustica 10 festival in L’Aquila this week.
New piece is soundchecking well. Shame my phone camera is dying though!
Debuting 'Noise for Waves and Grains at the IEEE Internet of Sounds Concert for the 10th Edition of the ElettroAQustica Festival at Conservatorio “A. Casella” of L'Aquilla this Wednesday. If you happen to be nearby, please do drop in!
Join the @radhumslab.bsky.social on Friday September 5th at @ucc.ie for (Un)Silencing, our one-day symposium exploring exciting work from the fields of sound studies and sound art, in collaboration with Resonance: the Journal of Sound & Culture.
Strong contender for the top 10 best music tweets. Nailed both the formula and the main problem with the music perfectly, while being hilarious.
Plot twist! In reality he was an expert cold reader of the relationship between technology and culture. The Mystic Meg of that particular niche.
How about Vaucanson’s Canard Digérateur. An automaton from the 1760s :