Graduate: Carl Cullen
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- Eileen Carpio
- Carl Cullen
- Paul Donnan
- Amanda Feery
- Gareth Flynn
- Marcin Gorzel
- Dessie Keegan
- Amy King
- Natasa Paterson
- Roberto Pugliese
- Rachel O'Dwyer
- Carthach O'Nuanain
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- Samuel Beckett Theatre
- The Joy Gallery
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Graduate work
Room Music is concerned with the compositional potential of enclosed spaces. An analysis of the acoustical characteristics of a small room will be used to create a composition for cello, violin, clarinet, percussion, and tape, presented in surround sound. A room is a resonating cavity which, much like a musical instrument, allows some frequencies to resonate and cancel others out, depending on its size, shape and the reflective nature of its contents. Room Music will explore the characteristic frequencies of a small space – a room about 1 meter squared, made from cement, and with only one object, a small metal box, at its rear. All rhythms, pitches, and samples, will be related to exact characteristics of the space. Surround sound speaker placement is devised as if the listener is sitting within the space, facing towards the opening in the room.
Listener Position in Room Music
Bio
Carl Cullen is a composer and musician from Dublin. He completed his undergraduate in music and philosophy at NUI Maynooth in 2006. He then entered the Masters in Music and Media Technology at Trinity College Dublin from 2007-2009. He is currently working in a number of instrumental and electronic musical groups in Dublin.
Research Interests
Acoustics and composition