Image by Olivia Eriksson
Quantum Foam//QNTMFM - Upcoming performances:
2 Feb 2024 Quantum Sound and Computing,
with Muiredach O’Riain, CTM Festival, Radialsystem
Previous solo appearances:
1 Dec 2023 Unit 44 Dublin, IE
4 June 2023 Northern Lights, Echo Echo Dance Derry, NI
3 June 2023 Northern Lights, Accidental Theatre Belfast, NI
2 June 2023 Northern Lights, Unit 44 Dublin,IE
12 May 2023 Fylkingen Stockholm, SE
22 April 2023 Kulturnatten Fylkingen, SE
27 August 2022 Muine Bheag Arts, IE
25 August 2022 DDR x IMMA Dublin, IE
22 July 2022 Fylkingen Stockholm, SE
1 August 2022 Nordic Lights, Monument Festival, NO
19 Dec 2021 Amazonia Mapping Festival, Belem BR
28 Oct 2021 FACT Liverpool, UK
27 Oct 2021 Static Complex Liverpool, UK
25 Sep 2021 Galleri Konstfack, Stockholm SE
4 Aug 2021 RHA Dublin, IE
6 May 2021 MUTEK ES+AR
1 Mar 2020 Cultúlann Uí Chanáin, Derry NI
Image by Patrick Bramley
Radio Broadcast:
12 Jan 2024 Digital Terrain, RTÉ Pulse
4 Oct 2023 Technopoiesis, Domes FM
23 Sept 2023 Technopoiesis, HKCR Hong Kong Community Radio
4 Sept 2023 Technopoiesis, CAMP Radio
28 April 2022 Meg Woof presents Adventures In Sound And MusicResonance FM
2 Feb 2024 Quantum Sound and Computing,
with Muiredach O’Riain, CTM Festival, Radialsystem
Previous solo appearances:
1 Dec 2023 Unit 44 Dublin, IE
4 June 2023 Northern Lights, Echo Echo Dance Derry, NI
3 June 2023 Northern Lights, Accidental Theatre Belfast, NI
2 June 2023 Northern Lights, Unit 44 Dublin,IE
12 May 2023 Fylkingen Stockholm, SE
22 April 2023 Kulturnatten Fylkingen, SE
27 August 2022 Muine Bheag Arts, IE
25 August 2022 DDR x IMMA Dublin, IE
22 July 2022 Fylkingen Stockholm, SE
1 August 2022 Nordic Lights, Monument Festival, NO
19 Dec 2021 Amazonia Mapping Festival, Belem BR
28 Oct 2021 FACT Liverpool, UK
27 Oct 2021 Static Complex Liverpool, UK
25 Sep 2021 Galleri Konstfack, Stockholm SE
4 Aug 2021 RHA Dublin, IE
6 May 2021 MUTEK ES+AR
1 Mar 2020 Cultúlann Uí Chanáin, Derry NI
Image by Patrick Bramley
Radio Broadcast:
12 Jan 2024 Digital Terrain, RTÉ Pulse
4 Oct 2023 Technopoiesis, Domes FM
23 Sept 2023 Technopoiesis, HKCR Hong Kong Community Radio
4 Sept 2023 Technopoiesis, CAMP Radio
28 April 2022 Meg Woof presents Adventures In Sound And MusicResonance FM
Everything But Signal
Everything but Signal uses solely found sounds of the internet and signals of communication within our digital infrastructure. It reflects on the forms of media that we consume and inhabit, i.e. from traditional mass media to social media. The composition aims to transform and arrange the intense sounds of social media notifications to arrive at a new perception of these materials. “The term marks a perceptive reality of sound as such, as distinguished from the modes of its production and transmission," Schaeffer said about acousmatics. "The new phenomenon of telecommunications and the massive diffusion of messages exists only in relation to and as a function of a fact that has been rooted in human experience from the beginning: natural, sonorous communication.”
Produced by Quantum Foam
Composed by Quantum Foam
Album artwork by Gerard Carson
A Storm is Blowing From Paradise EP
[ Acting against God - the sound that explores the point atmospheric phenomena became deterministic occurrences ]
Imagining a sequence of weather narratives around the wind, Quantum Foam synthesises field recordings and deconstructs the audio into shuffle-able components open for a stochastic takeover.
A Storm is Blowing From Paradise boldly experiments with random modulation over the midi velocity of the drums to convey the degree of entropy of the chaotic atmosphere.
released March 31, 2022
Produced by Quantum Foam
Mastered by Fernando Pulichino
Album artwork by Sui of emfm.se
Colour of Noise EP
Through the act of searching harmonics amongst noises, Quantum Foam plays with metaphors of pattern recognition and signal processing in our sonic environment.
Colour of Noise incorporates sampling from natural and artificial found sounds, drifting between the frequency spectrum of ranging power spectral densities, i.e. white, pink, brown, grey, purple, and blue noises, mixing with the live tuning in of FM radio channels. To signify the arrival of the era of de-anthropocentric machine music in today’s world, extracts of the Futurist Manifesto of Luigi Russolo from 1913 “The Art of Noise” are revisited and articulated as a speech, as well as encoded in Morse signals.
released June 5, 2021
Produced by Quantum Foam
Mastered by Fernando Pulichino
Album artwork courtesy of Michelle McKeown
Would You Not Recall How Your Heart Once Beat for an Ordinary Saturday Calmness
HD audio, 9’59”A sound piece created entirely from one source, which is the recording of my own heartbeat when I was 30. Subtractive synthesis is applied to take the source signal to generate the whole piece. Vibrations of heart movement drive through resonant filters and get pitched along improvisation at a meditative state.
Verdure engraved 2020(1) issue released October 2020. Delighted to be part of this project curated by Jez Riley French along with some great visual and sound artists based in London, Glasgow, Berlin, Tokyo and Lisbon.