RESEARCH
Publications
BOOK CHAPTERS
“Cantor Mortis: Singing Bodies, Pre-existing Music, Death and Life in Swiss Army Man (2016).
In Adaptation, Rearrangement, and Music Across Screen Media, eds. Kate Galloway, Katherine Reed and Reba Wissner. The Routledge Music and Screen Media Series. New York, NY: Routledge, forthcoming 2024.
“Scoring TV Adaptations: From the Silver Screen to the Small Screen.”
In The Oxford Handbook of Music in Television, eds. James Deaville, Ronald Rodman and Jessica Getman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2023.
“The Adaptation of Akira Yamaoka’s music from the Silent Hill series (1999-04) in Silent Hill (2006).”
In The Convergence and Divergence of Music in Games and Films, edited by Richard Anatone and Andrew S. Powell, forthcoming 2023.
“The adaptation of narrative and musical source material in Damon Lindelof’s Watchmen (2019).”
In After Midnight: Analysing the Post-Watchmen Sequels, edited by Drew Morton. Foreword by Henry Jenkins. Mississippi: University of Mississippi Press, 2022.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
“The ‘Cinematic Promise’ of Video Game Music: Stylistic Convergence, Remakes and the Case of Final Fantasy VII.”
Special Issue, Journal of Sound and Music in Games 4, no. 4 (2023). Forthcoming.
Special Issue, Journal of Popular Music Studies 33, no. 4 (2021).
“Revisiting Vangelis: Sonic Citation and Narration in the score for Blade Runner 2049 (2017).”
Sonic Scope: New Approaches To Audiovisual Culture 1, no. 1 (2020).
OTHER JOURNAL CONTRIBUTIONS
Review of “@Concert: Liveness in the Time of Coronavirus,” by Landon S. Palmer.
In [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies 10, no. 1 (2023).
In In Media Res: a Media Commons Project, April 17, 2023.
“Film Musicality and Reflexivity.”
In Walker, Elsie, et al. “The Life and Legacy of Danijela Kulezic-Wilson,” Music and the Moving Image 16, no. 1 (2023): 22–36. 2023
Review of “Film-with-Live-Orchestra Concerts: A New Hope,” by Sureshkumar P. Sekar.
In [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies 9, no. 1 (2022)
“Roving Textualities: the Mobile Ringtone, Intersemiosis and Transmedia.”
In Sonic Scope: New Approaches To Audiovisual Culture 1, no. 1 (2020).
MEDIA APPEARANCES AND PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP
Interviewed by Aoife Ryan-Christensen. “What makes a great film score?”
In RTÉ Brainstorm, edited by Jim Carroll. Dublin: Raidió Teilifís Éireann – Ireland’s National Public Service Media, 2022.
“Daft Punk’s Farewell: a Fitting Conclusion to their Reign as Composers, Producers and Filmmakers.”
In RTÉ Brainstorm, edited by Jim Carroll. Dublin: Raidió Teilifís Éireann – Ireland’s National Public Service Media, 2021.
“‘Blue skies and golden sunshine’: David Lynch's lockdown weather reports.”
In RTÉ Brainstorm, edited by Jim Carroll. Dublin: Raidió Teilifís Éireann – Ireland’s National Public Service Media, 2021.
CURENTLY UNDER REVIEW
“Rearrangement and Music Editing as Compositional Devices in Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby (2013).
Music and the Moving Image (currently being revised following initial editorial review)
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Keynotes and Invited Lectures
“Return to the Forgotten Forest: Collaborative Scoring Practices and Shaping the Fictional Geography of Kena: Bridge of Spirits (2021).”
Forthcoming invited presentation as part of the AMS Music and Media Study Group’s “Music and Place / Worldmaking” roundtable, The 89th Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Denver CO, 9–12 November 2023.
“The Life and Legacy of Danijela Kulezic-Wilson.” [Keynote Panellist]
Music and the Moving Image XVIII, NYU Steinhardt, Greenwich Village, New York, 26-29 May 2022 (held remotely due to COVID-19).
“The Proliferation of ‘Musical Remakes’ in Film and Television scores.” [Invited Presentation]
Presented as part of the AMS Music and Media Study Group’s “Approaches to Transmedia Adaptation and Rearrangement” roundtable, The 87th Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society (AMS), 11-12, 20-21 November 2021 (held remotely due to COVID-19).
“The Transient Film Score: Audience Subjectivities, Sonic Storytelling and Cultivating Imagined Worlds.”
The 5th Annual Rev. Liam Swords Foundation Lecture, Royal Irish Academy, Dawson Street, Dublin, 6 February 2019.
“Transient Composing - Subjectivities and Sonic Storytelling in the Film Score.”
The 5th Annual Rev. Liam Swords Foundation Lecture, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris 5è, 19 November 2018.
“Scoring Realities: Sonically Conveying Narrative, Temporality and Characterisation in HBO’s Westworld (2016).”
Society For Musicology in Ireland 11th Annual Postgraduate Conference, Maynooth University, 19-20 January 2018.
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Conference Presentations
“The Pleasures (and Displeasures) of Adaptation: Intertextual Modes of Audience Engagement with the Music of The Rings of Power (2022) and The Last of Us (2023).”
Annual Plenary Conference of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, TU Dublin Conservatoire, 8–10 June 2023.
“Scoring TV Adaptations: Taking Pre-existing Musical and Sonic Identities to the Small Screen.”
19th Annual Music and the Moving Image conference, NYU Steinhardt, Greenwich Village, New York, 26–28 May 2023.
“Communicating Screen Music Research through Videographic Criticism.”
18th Annual Irish Screen Studies Seminar, The Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute, Trinity College Dublin, 11–12 May 2023.
“Serialising Cinema: Music for Small-Screen Adaptations in the ‘Peak TV’ Era.”
Music for Stage and Screen: Celebrating SMI at 20, Jerome Hynes Theatre, National Opera House, Wexford, 10–11 March 2023.
“Radiohead’s Impossible Museum: Representing Abstract Musical Phenomena and Ephemeral Listening Experiences in KID A MNESIA EXHIBITION (2021)”
10th Annual North American Conference on Video Game Music, Stetson University, 4–5 Feb 2023.
“Cantor Mortis: Singing Voices, Bodies, Life and Death in Swiss Army Man (2016).”
18th Annual Music and the Moving Image conference, NYU Steinhardt, New York, 26–29 May 2022 (held remotely due to COVID-19).
“Befriending Spirits”: Jason Gallaty and Gamelan Çudamani’s score for Kena: Bridge of Spirits (2021).”
9th Annual North American Conference on Video Game Music, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston Louisiana, 2–3 April 2022 (held remotely due to COVID-19).
“‘Musical Remakes’: Re-envisioning the Rearrangement of Pre-Existing Music in Contemporary Screen Scoring.”
Presented as part of panel “‘Play It Again:’ A Panel on Remaking Pre-existing Music in Screen Media,” co-organised with Prof. James Deaville, British Audio-Visual Research Network Virtual Colloquium 2021–22, 3 March 2022 (held remotely due to COVID-19).
“Rearrangement of Pre-existing Music in the Film Score: Narratological Possibilities, Deliberate Ambiguities and Questions of ‘Originality.’”
12th Meeting of the IMS Music and Media Study Group: Pre-existing music in screen-media: Problems, questions, challenges, Cleveland OH, 10-11 June 2021 (held remotely due to COVID-19).
“‘Never Gonna Dance Again’: Transformations of Pre-existing Music and the Communication of Trauma in Watchmen (2019).”
17th Annual Music and the Moving Image conference, NYU Steinhardt, New York, 27–30 May 2021 (held remotely due to COVID-19).
“Rearranging Popular Music and ‘Composite’ Scoring in the films of Baz Luhrmann.”
The 16th Annual Irish Screen Studies Seminar, Ulster University, Magee Campus, Derry, Ireland. 5–6 May 2021 (held remotely due to COVID-19).
“‘I am no longer afraid’: a Case Study on the Musical Communication of Trauma in Narrative Film and Television.”
Music, Sound, and Trauma: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Indiana University Bloomington. 12–14 February 2021 (held remotely due to COVID-19).
“Crisis? What Crisis?: Film Music Studies as a Hopeful Paradigm of Interdisciplinarity in Musicology.”
Young Musicology Belgrade 2020, Institute of Musicology, Serbian Academy of Sciences, Belgrade, Serbia, 26 September 2020 (held remotely due to COVID-19).
“Carraway, Kanye and ‘Dubious Descendants of Beethoven’: narrative functions of rearrangement in Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby (2013).”
16th Annual Music and the Moving Image conference, NYU Steinhardt, New York, May 29–31 2020 (held remotely due to COVID-19).
“(Re)arranged Marriages: Industry Demands, Citation and Narration in Blade Runner 2049 (2017).”
15th Annual Music and the Moving Image conference, NYU Steinhardt, Greenwich Village, New York, 31 May – 2 Jun 2019.
“A Murder Weapon In Plain Sight: Manipulating Cinematic Conventions, Duplicitous Narration and Asynchronous Sound.”
15th Annual Irish Screen Studies Seminar, NUIG, Galway, 9th May 2019.
"Rearrangement and Narration in the Film Score: Pre-existing musical content, narrative communication and examples from the Blade Runner series."
Fuaim lecture series, Department of Music, University College Cork, 17th January 2019.
“Scoring Realities: Sonically Conveying Narrative, Temporality and Characterisation in HBO's Westworld (2016).”
Identity (Re)construction: The CACSSS Annual Aigne Postgraduate Conference, University College Cork. 11 December 2017.
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Scholarships
Recipient of the CACSSS PhD Excellence Scholarship, University College Cork
Scholarships are competitively awarded by UCC’s College of Arts Celtic Studies and Social Sciences to students demonstrating exceptional promise for research in the humanities
Former Recipient of Quercus Creative & Performing Arts Scholarship, University College Cork
Scholars are recognised for demonstrating an exceptional level of excellence, academically and in their chosen art form, and are selected by an extensive multidisciplinary panel.
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Jun 2015 - May 2017
Research Awards
Staff Research Support Fund (CACSSS), Funding Recipient 2023
Stipend, awarded in support of my travel to the 2023 Music and the Moving Image conference (NYU Steinhardt, New York), having served on the conference’s programme committee.
Society for Musicology in Ireland (SMI), Research Grant
Stipend, enabling my travel to DeLand FL to present at the 10th Annual North American Conference on Video Game Music, Stetson University, 4-5 April 2023
Staff Research Support Fund (CACSSS), Funding Recipient 2022
Stipend, enabling my registration and presentation at the 2022 Music and the Moving Image conference at NYU Steinhardt, New York (held remotely due to COVID-19)
Society for Musicology in Ireland (SMI), Research Grant
Bursary, enabling my invited presentation at the the 87th Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society (AMS)
Postgraduate Research Travel Bursary, 2019
Stipend, enabling travel and presentation of scholarship at the 2019 Music and the Moving Image conference at NYU Steinhardt, New York
Rev. Liam Swords Foundation Bursary 2018
Invited to spend three months as resident researcher at the Irish Cultural Centre in Paris, conducting archival research and studying under the influential film sound scholar Michel Chion
11th Annual Undergraduate Musicology Competition, CHMHE / SMI
Invited to present at the SMI Postgraduate Conference 2018, having been awarded 1st Prize in the 11th Annual CHMHE Undergraduate Musicology Competition
Staf Gebruers Memorial Prize 2017, University College Cork
Awarded the coveted annual award and bursary as displaying exceptional promise for postgraduate studies in the UCC Department of Music
The Mary V. Hart Memorial Prize in Music, University College Cork
Awarded title and prize for obtaining first place at the BMus (Hons) Degree Examination.
Undergraduate Award - Highly Commended, Undergraduate Awards 2016
Internationally recognized amid 243 participating universities for paper “Evocations of the Occult: Folk Music's role in creating Tension and Unease in The Wicker Man (1973)”
UCC Works Recipient, University College Cork
Awarded as part of the Student Life strand of the UCC Works Award, for contribution to UCC student societies
UCC College Scholar 2016, CACSSS University College Cork
Awarded bursary as highest scoring student in degree programme
UCC College Scholar 2015, CACSSS University College Cork
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UCC College Scholar 2014, CACSSS University College Cork
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NUI Award 2014, National University of Ireland
Among the three highest scoring English students in Ireland across four NUI universities, commended as part of the Henry Hutchinson Stewart literary scholarship
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Editorial Experience
Editorial Board member
Sonic Scope: New Approaches to Audiovisual Culture (MIT Press / Goldsmiths, University of London)
Co-editor
Special Issue, Journal of Sound and Music in Games (University of California Press)
Invited Peer-reviewer
[in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies (JCMS)
The Musicology Review (UCD)
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