NB: for an up-to-date research profile and publications, see my Ulster PURE profile.
Recent and Upcoming Events (2026):
UPCOMING PERFORMANCE
London, Sept 12/13th (date TBC): Analogue Intelligences (feedback/cybernetic analogue modular synthesis for vintage EMS Synthi and contemporary Eurorack), University of West London, SyReN Symposium
PAST:
Publication (report): Casey, F. & Bridges, B., 2026, A Framework for Supporting, Integrating and Nurturing Practice Research. Wellcome Trust Research Culture NI Project. Ulster University and Queen’s University Belfast. https://doi.org/10.21251/0fc49115-633c-4bc7-a7d1-a9297c3510c0
2026 COMPOSITION Analogue Intelligences (feedback/cybernetic analogue modular synthesis for vintage EMS Synthi and contemporary Eurorack modular synthesis), University of West London, SyReN Symposium, and Signal Flow festival, Derry, Playhouse Theatre, March 29th, commissioned by Northern Lights/Arts Council NI
Recent Events (2025):
Machine Time (cybernetic modular synthesis processes, after Roland Kayn, Jaap Vink; see also ‘Cybernetic Resurgences’ chapter for upcoming Springer volume. Signal Flow festival (Playhouse Theatre), April 27th; University of Leeds, Oct 11th.
Publication: Roddy, S & Bridges, B 2025, ‘Cybernetic Resurgences: Machine Music Beyond AI Slop‘. in N Zagalo & D Keller (eds), Artificial Media: Emerging Trends in Narratives, Education and Creative Practice. Cham, Switzerland, pp. 95-113.
Conference paper (with Adam Melvin): Touching from a Distance: Sonic Material and Embodied Crosstalk in the Electronic Soundtrack. in Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image Annual Conference 2025.
Recent Events (2024):
EDITORIAL: Organised Sound (Cambridge University Press) special issue: Ecologically Grounded Creative Practices and Ubiquitous Music: Interaction and Environment (co-editor with Keller, D., and Lazzarini, V.)
Ramp Waves for EMS Synthi AKS: New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, 18th June
Ramp Waves for EMS Synthi AKS: Radical Futures conference, UCC, 8th/9th May
Conference paper ‘Music as the Interface: timbre, materiality, movement, and presence in music and its technologies’. Radical Futures conference, UCC, 8th/9th May
Trying Dyads for Modular Synthesiser, NMDX (New Music Dublin Exchange), IMRO, April 26th
Recent Events (2023):
Organised/Hosted: 13th International Symposium on Ubiquitous Music, Ulster University, Derry, and partners including North West Regional College
Organised/Hosted: Oscillations and Modulations festival (partners including Movin Music Academy, Northern Lights, NWRC), 29th Sept to 1st October
July 8th: Ramp Waves for 50-year-old EMS Synthi AKS, Rathmullan Music Project, alongside spatialised presentation of Michel Chion’s ‘Requiem’ (Northern Lights Project)
Recent Events (2022):
2022 PAPER, PUBLISHED PROCEEDINGS (with L. Smith, F. Lyons and R. Casey). WithFeelVR: the Spatial and Textural Affordances of VR as a Mapping Strategy for an Accessible Digital Musical Instrument. Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, University of Limerick, July 3rd to 9th.
New work (modular synthesis performance for selected intervals from the first 64 harmonics) at Kontakt-Edge, curated by Anna Murray, Kirkos Unit 44, Stoneybatter, Dubin, March 19th.
Recent Events (2021):
2021 PAPER, PUBLISHED PROCEEDINGS. Electroacoustic Music as Embodied Cognition. Electroacoustic Music Studies Network annual conference, De Montfort University, UK, November ’21. Available at: https://zenodo.org/record/5981466 (published 6/2/22)
2021 PAPER, PUBLISHED PROCEEDINGS (with S. Roddy). The Design of a Smart City Sonification System Using a Conceptual Blending and Music Framework, Web Audio and Deep Learning Techniques. Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD), 2021.
2021 CHAPTER (with A. Melvin). Mapping Space and Time in the Soundtrack: embodied cognition and the soundtrack’s spatiotemporal contract. In: Filimowicz, M (ed), Doing Research in Sound Design. Routledge.
2021 CHAPTER (with S. Roddy) Meaning-making and Embodiment in Sound Design Research. In: Filimowicz, M (ed), Doing Research in Sound Design. Routledge.
Recent Events (2020):
August 2020: Microterritories: Lost and Found Borders was featured at ISSTA 2020 (online)
June 2020: Tracing Beijing was featured at the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (online)
Recent Events (2019):
ISSTA 2019 – Perform! took place at the CIT Cork School of Music, with Keynotes Robert Henke (Ableton, Monolake) and DJ ELLLL (Ellen King, Gash Collective). This was my last ISSTA as President; I served on the organising committee, working with Hugh McCarthy at CSM.
The second edition of Oscillations and Modulations took place in Derry, Sept 27th and 28th, featuring workshops, performances, talks and tours taking in the city’s expanding electronic music scene.
Recent Events (2018):
Oscillations & Modulations is a two–day festival of synthesisers and electronic music, which I co-founded with electronic musician, producer and music technology tutor Jonny Delaney and Ulster colleague John Harding, took place 20th–21st March 2018, hosted by Ulster University, Magee campus in collaboration with various venues throughout the city of Derry.
Recent Events (2017):
New multichannel audio piece Tracing Beijing premiered at Sounding out the Space (Dublin Institute of Technology, 4th November).
Inclusive Creativity: Digital Practices symposium (Hearts of STEM 2017), May 31st at Ulster University, Magee in association with Walled City Music Festival.
Paper (with R. Graham, W. Brent, C. Manzione) accepted for NIME 2017 in Copenhagen (Aalborg University), May 15th-18th.
Currently working on radio play Home with AnNua Productions.
I’m also on the advisory committee for Sounding out the Space (Dublin Institute of Technology, 2nd – 4th November).
Staging Sonic Spaces (event), March 7th-9th, Ulster University, Magee, Derry, in association with Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin, Spatial Music Collective, Hearts of STEM, supported by the Garfield Weston Trust.
Borders of the Past (2016) at 220 Volta, Imbolc International Music Festival, the Glassworks, Cultúrlann, Derry, Jan 31st, 8 pm – late.
Conduit (2009) at Works from the Irish Spatial Music Collective, Spectrum, NYC (121 Ludlow Street, Lower East Side) curated by Linda Buckley, Jan 13th, 7 pm – late.
Recent Events (2016):
I was involved with the organisation of three conference/festival events at Ulster University this year.
October 31st: International Workshop on Digital Empathy
https://vimeo.com/194866562
http://www.paulmckevitt.com/digitalempathy/
September 7th – 9th: ISSTA 2016 International Festival and Conference on Sound in the Arts, Science and Technology
https://vimeo.com/195024133
Feb 24th – 26th: [HE]Arts of STEM, Belfast and Derry/Londonderry
Recent Events (2015):
I was on research sabbatical in Beijing for the first half of 2015, part of which involved collecting audiovisual materials for new creative works.
I have also recently been working on the soundtrack for Home, a theatre production based on immigrant/emigrant experiences and identities, performed in Liverpool at the Jo Makin Theatre (Liverpool John Moores University) June 18-20 and in Derry/Londonderry at the Waterside Theatre (July 2–4). Further information and reviews can be found here: http://annuaproductions.com
Events (2013/14):
Fissile Materials (2008, electroacoustic), presented at the Stables, Ebrington, Derry, 24th April 2014, and the Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast, 26th April, in a concert by Rarescale alongside Adam and Mark Melvin’s Fulgurite Chamber
Four Derry Soundscapes: 4 miniature embedded pieces: as part of Paul Devlin’s Austins Project, Derry City of Culture, December 6th, 2013 | An 18th Century Requiem (in a 19th Century Container) for 20th Century Derry in the 21st Century: composition for installation as part of Paul Devlin’s Austins Project, Derry City of Culture, December 5th/6th, 2013
Ripples of Inertia Bells (electroacoustic/radiophonic composition for binaural stereo), commissioned by Resonance FM/Resonance@Void, broadcast November 8th 2013