Mullagh Gearr
Multichannel Sound2026
Mullagh Gearr is a series of multi-channel sound works based on field recordings made along the Mullaghmore Peninsula on the west coast of Ireland. The recordings were collected around the site associated with the lost village of Mullagh Gearr, whose presence persists through landscape and oral history.
The works are created using a digital system developed through my research on digital instrument design, generative synthesis and field recording. The system analyses the temporal structures within field recordings and uses them as a generative source for new sonic material, while allowing their sonic character to be manipulated.
The pieces begin with the sonic character of the original recordings and gradually drift into new spectral regions. Familiar elements, waves, wind, and distant resonances, remain perceptible as their spectral qualities slowly shift, producing an evolving sonic environment.
Presented as a spatialised multichannel sound installation, the work unfolds gradually through the movement and transformation of the recordings in space.