Robert Coleman
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Robert Coleman is currently a PhD student at the Sonic Arts Research Centre, Belfast focusing on site-specific, outdoor and environmentally engaged performance practices. His current research draws from numerous fields such as soundscape ecology, eco-acoustics, field recording and participatory arts.
In 2019 he completed his Masters studies at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague with Yannis Kyriakides and Diderik Wagenaar. Having also studied architecture his work often features spatial concepts and metaphors as frameworks for the composition process.
He has been commissioned by Crash Ensemble and New Music Dublin, the National Concert Hall Dublin, Irish National Opera, Tallaght Community Arts, Alternative Entertainment Arts Group and more.
He is a founding member of the Dublin based experimental group Kirkos, who have presented projects ranging from Fluxus happenings, to New Discipline performances, to multi-sensory events in the dark.
Robert has a pressing interest in interdisciplinary collaborations and has worked with various artists such as the Experimental Film Society, Pim Piët (visual artist/designer) Laura Sarah Dowdall (dancer/ choreographer with RUNNING BLIND), Mihai Cucu (visual artist), Slipdraft (lighting design) amongst others.
As a performer he has explored experimental repertoire from Irish and international artists, performing at New Music Dublin 2017, Kirkos: Fluxfest, Jennifer Walshe’s Aisteach, Kirkos: Body Noise Work and also in collaboration with composer/performer Andy Ingamells amongst others.
He has received many awards including professional artist bursaries from the Arts Council of Ireland, South Dublin County Council, the 2017 Jerome Hynes Young Composer of the Year and the West Cork Chamber Music Festival Composition Competition 2015 and 2016.
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