Robert will be presenting a new site-specific audiovisual installation at Fuddlefest 2021.
Fuddlefest is a music festival, nestled in the heart of rural Wexford. This years festival presents leading Irish musicians performing classical and contemporary works. Hosting cutting-edge electronic music with Dublin Modular alongside afternoon trad sessions by Tulua. Sonic installations await discovery.
Website and full information for the festival available here
I’m delighted to have been awarded an Artist Resilience Bursary with South Dublin County Arts Office
My project will be to create a sound walk for the River Dodder in South Dublin. During the last year my time spent walking there has been a great source of solace, and I'm sure I'm not the only one to feel that.
Excited to be exploring this wonderful area and hopefully make something meaningful to share over the coming months.
Read MoreParticipants from 5th and 6th class in Scoil Chrónáin and Rathfarnham Parish National School will work with composer Robert Coleman to make a sound art piece comprising the sounds of their everyday lives,
Read MoreFor Private Use is “an experimental anthology to help you hear, see and taste your environment in new ways, and redefine what you mean by the word performance.”
A series of small “perform it yourself” works, which will be released on Sunday 25th April at 11:00am
Read MoreThe concert will take place on Sunday 25th April at 3:30pm (Irish time) and like all the events for the festival is free to stream here through the New Music Dublin website.
Read MoreThe workshops will cover ideas around listening, recording, soundscapes and sound maps and how these fit into composing music and performance.
Read MoreThe project is a collaboration with two local schools in the South Dublin area: Scoil Chrónáin in Rathcoole and Rathfarnham Parish National School. Robert will devise and teach a series of sound art workshops to pupils of the schools
Read MoreThe Colour Green, a short 5 minute opera devised for online publication is now available at the website of Irish National Opera.
Read MoreRobert’s opera titled the Colour Green is inspired by Mark Boyle, ‘the moneyless man’ who gave up technology for a life in rural Galway.
Read MoreRobert has been commissioned by Crash Ensemble and New Music Dublin to write a new work for the New Music Dublin Festival 2021.
Read MoreAhead of our upcoming outdoor Biosphere festival, the Dublin Enquirer has written up a broad account of what to expect throughout the week.
Read MoreRobert is pleased to announce that he has received a Music Bursary Award 2020 from the Arts Council of Ireland which will allow him to develop new work throughout the next year which builds on ideas from his recent masters studies at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague.
Read MoreThe bursary will fund Robert to compose a new multi-media work based on research carried out throughout his recent masters studies.
Read More‘but more powerful was how Coleman impelled audiences to witness the suffering; the composer made the living come face-to-face with the dead.’
Read MoreI am delighted to announce that I am a recipient of an Engagement with Architecture Award 2019 from the Arts Council of Ireland. This project will allow me to research the unique architectural heritage of the Dublin Port area through study, investigation and recording of the soundscape which characterises it.
Read MoreRobert will be writing a new work for violinist Jane Hackett supported by the Arts Council of Ireland Commission Award.
Robert has previously collaborated with Jane in the past in 2016 when he wrote a three movement work for Jane Hackett and Siobhán Doyle titled Spectrum with visuals by Mihai Cucu.
The new work for violin and multimedia will complete the Spectrum set and is unusual in that it will be written to be performed specifically out of doors. It will be performed in the Netherlands and also in Ireland in Summer 2020.
‘How many sides do you see?’ is a new site specific work written for the special area of James Turrell’s Celestial Vault in Kijkduin. I have organised an event Dune Works, collaborating with sound artist Tony Guarino and artist Anni Nöps who will each present their own repsonses to the site and environment alongside my premiere which will be performed by Hague based ensemble But What About.
Read More"The strangeness had ended; its reverberations, however, remain"
Big thank you to The Journal of Music & reviewer Tim Deovanni for the kind words of the review and for joining all the artists for a special evening at Body Noise Work.
Read More‘Energy is also important’ will be premiered on 19th October at the Zuiderstrandtheatre, Den Haag by the Residentie Orkest (Hague Philharmonic).
Read MoreWritten for Billy O’Brien, Impulses will be premiered at Billy’s concert at the New Ross Piano Festival 2018.
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