About Dublin Sound Lab

DUBLIN SOUND LAB is a contemporary music performance group specialising in new electroacoustic music and computer-mediated performance. The group was formed in 2008 by organist Michael Quinn and composer Fergal Dowling to perform new electroacoustic works by Irish and international composers.

DUBLIN SOUND LAB has given Irish premieres of many contemporary electronic works and have worked with leading Irish and international composers, performing works by: Ailis Ni Riain, Nick Collins, Julio d'Escrivan, Gérard Grisey, Salvatore Sciarrino, Kaija Saariaho, Luca Francesconi, Karlheinz Essl, Peter Ablinger, Mauricio Kagel, Wim de Ruiter, Ann Cleare, Scott McLaughlin, Barry Truax, Roderik de Man, Karen Tanaka, Jean-Claude Risset, Ed Bennett, Judith Ring and Jonathan Harvey. In 2009 Dublin Sound Lab invited the renowned violist Garth Knox to programme a concert of contemporary viola music at St Werbugh’s Church, Dublin. In April 2011 DUBLIN SOUND LAB performed a special Beckett-inspired programme at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, to a capacity audience, and in October 2011 we hosted a two days of concerts and workshops in Dublin with the Austrian composer and computer musician Karlheinz Essl.