In 2020, we found ourselves in a Zoom room at the (online) Music and the Moving Image conference. This led to a 2½ year collaboration on a special issue of 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤 𝘪𝘯 𝘎𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘴. In 2025, how amazing to meet in-person for the first time!

So honoured to present for the 7th time at NYU Steinhardt Screen Scoring’s Music and the Moving Image conference, as well as chairing various panels feat. truly inspirational colleagues. Having attended MaMI annually since 2019, it never ceases to wholly enliven me and remind me why I do what I do

My MaMI paper, “Music and Sound in Aleatoric Filmmaking: The Case of 𝘌𝘯𝘰 (2024),” was a new strand of my research on the intersection of new media technologies and popular music culture, arising from my recent Research Ireland-funded postdoc Research Fellow role at Film Department, Trinity College Dublin.

An incredibly well-deserved (and entirely expected) Best Actress win for Sarah Snook at The Tony Awards So delighted I caught The Picture of Dorian Gray during my time in NYC for Music and the Moving Image, especially w/ my decades-long love of the novella and having missed the West End run

What a thrill to perform as part of the Irish Video Game Orchestra’s 10th anniversary show in Belfast last week Even more special that our programme included Rika Muranaka’s “The Best Is Yet To Come” from 𝘔𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘎𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘚𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘥, especially given its Irish language lyrics

Thrilled to be invited to contribute to this exciting online symposium being organised by the AMS Music & Media Study Group (Zoom, 7 Aug, 1-3pm ET) My paper is on “Democratising Screen Music Studies through Videographic Criticism.” Come one, come all! musicandmedia.ams-net.org/home/online-sy…

Conference on screen music/sound: 🚨 CFP: Sound on Screen V 🗓️ 5–17 Jul 2026 📍 Royal Northern College of Music Manchester UK 📩 Deadline: 1 Oct 2025 I had the pleasure of attending (and, on occasion, presenting at) several iterations of this fabulous event. A really collegial, supportive gathering!

What a delight to present alongside such wonderful and talented colleagues as part of the online symposium “Presentational Technologies in Music and Screen Media Research and Pedagogy,” organised by the American Musicological Society’s Music & Media Study Group last Thursday.

My latest article “Scoring Synthetic Media: Library Music in the Viral ‘A.I. Film’ Trend” has been published in Emerging Media (Sage Journals)—and it is open-access! Heartfelt thanks to my peer-reviewers and everyone who offered feedback on this research doi.org/10.1177/275235…

Thrilled to be back on terra firma at Trinity College Dublin this week, where I recently accepted a Teaching Fellow post in the School of Creative Arts Excited to return to Film Department, Trinity College Dublin Dept, where I am teaching a number of new modules I designed on screen music and videographic criticism

After attending/presenting at previous iterations of the IMS Music & Media Study Group’s annual conference, how wonderful to have it come to us in Dublin 🗓️ June 11–12, 2026 📍 UCD School of Music ⏰ Deadline: Dec 5 Thrilled to be on the programme committee for this exciting event

A reminder that the CFP is live for the International Musicological Society (IMS) Music & Media Study Group’s annual conference. Taking place in June 2026 at UCD School of Music, the theme is “Directions and Aesthetics of the Digital Era” Please share widely careers.amsmusicology.org/opportunity/du…

🚨 Screen Music / Ludomusicology CFP ℹ️ Symposium: “What Does Video Game Music Tell Us About Music?” 🗓️ 15–16 Sep 2026 📍 University of Liège (Belgium) 📩 Deadline: 31 Dec 2025 liegegamelab.uliege.be/cms/c_12771474…

Lovely to be invited to present my research at my alma mater UCC Ireland, at a special event in memory of my late mentor Danijela It marks the establishment of a new scholarship in her memory, supported by the wonderful human (and Oscar nominee!) Doug Murray ucc.ie/en/fmt/music/e…

🚨 CFP: Music and the Moving Image XXII 🗓️ Friday, May 29 - Sunday, May 31, 2026 📍 NYU Steinhardt, New York 📩 Deadline: 15 Dec 2025 ℹ️ More information and submission portal: form.jotform.com/252924045459159

Pleased to be presenting some of my recent research as part of the forthcoming conference “Algorithmic Audiovisualities: Music and Media in the Age of AI” which takes place this coming weekend, November 13–15 (NOVA University Lisbon) Free access via Zoom cysmus-cesem.weebly.com/international-…

“Algorithmic Audiovisualities: Music and Media in the Age of A.I.” (organised by CysMus - CESEM at NOVA) kicks off today Excited to be presenting my recent screen music research as part of the Day #2 panel “Transcultural Practices and Perspectives” tomorrow morning from 10:30

My latest article—available via OnlineFirst earlier in 2025—has just been published in the new themed issue of Emerging Media: Technology, Industry, and Society: Public Engagement and AI in Constructing Reality Due to Sage Journals's global agreements, it is open-access for many readers journals.sagepub.com/toc/EMM/current

Thrilled to be invited to join such an illustrious schedule of guest speakers in Trinity’s Musicology Seminar Series this Hilary Term, to deliver a paper that draws together many threads of my recent postdoctoral research 4pm, March 19th, Boydell Recital Room, House 5 Trinity College Dublin

Wonderful to catch an advance screening of this beautiful, devastating film at Dublin's Light House Cinema Cinema, feat. an enlighting discussion with Oscar-nominated director Amy Berg Great to see some of my Intro to Documentary students in attendance getting involved in the Q&A too