
Cárthach Ó Nuanáin is an intermedia, interdisciplinary artist and researcher whose practice is rooted in the sounding world. He lectures at MTU Cork School of Music and is the current course coodinator of the MA/MSc in Music & Technology.
His diverse expertise and interests include computational musicology and music information retrieval; electroacoustic composition, performance and theory; new interfaces; sound art and interactive media. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Music in 2018 from the Music Technology Group at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona where he worked and taught with the Musical and Advanced Interaction Team.
He has presented and performed prize-winning work at festivals and events across all hemispheres, including the Dublin Electronic Arts Festival (DEAF), Darklight Film Festival, New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Sound and Music Computing, Audio Mostly, Sónar International Festival of Advanced Music, Music Tech Fest, Phonos Foundation, Sonic Environments / Australasian Computer Music Conference, Radiophrenia Festival, International Symposium for Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research, Radiophrenia, Radical Humanities and the International Computer Music Conference.
Spent a few years an an audio producer/engineer for Microsoft in Dublin on many of their Xbox titles during the Kinect era (Partial list of credits on mobygames and imdb). Spent several more in Barcelona and Berlin designing sound and developing audio application/plugins for well-known companies and Grammy artists.
Outside of the day job he maintains a busy schedule as an engineer, producer, faciliator and performer of all sorts of music (swing, rock, traditional Irish music), youth theatre and community arts.
(about the name)
It It can be tricky to pronounce, even for most Irish natives. For people not familiar with the Irish language it is worth noting that the fada accent changes the sound of vowel. Also the letter “t” is silent in the firstname part.
Thus you make a good attempt with:
Cor-uck Oh Noo-nawn
Here is an audio example from an Irish speaker from the West of the island.