Metronome: Dublin Modular

Folding Waves & Genevieve Howard 
Tadhg Kinsella 
Sonia Killmann 

An evening where modular and hardware electronics fuse with acoustic instrumentation and immersive digital art. Curated as a celebration of queer identity, experimentation, and collaboration, this event brings together some of Ireland’s most exciting electro-acoustic artists. Expect performances to blur genres, sounds and worlds. A vibrant snapshot of Ireland’s evolving electronic music landscape and grassroots communities.

Folding Waves is an international award-winning creative audio studio based in Dublin. Comprising a small team of sound designers, composers and mix engineers, united by their shared enthusiasm for the symbiotic relationship between sound and moving image.
 
Borne from their collaboration for ICADs Reverb event (part of Irish Design Week 2025), Folding Waves will be performing alongside multidisciplinary artist, designer and musician Genevieve Howard - live processing her spontaneous harp gestures through a Eurorack modular synthesiser. 
 
This, with accompaniment from Folding Waves' own Mark Bergin on heavily effected Banjo, creates a sonically rich, and texturally dense improvisational soundscape - harkening back to Ireland's cultural music tradition through a distinctly modernist lens.

Tadhg Kinsella is a queer Dublin-based sound artist, classically trained percussionist, and composer whose work blends acoustic performance with experimental electronic practices.
Specialising in modular synthesis, haptic sound devices, and percussion elements. Tadhg’s practice spans contemporary classical music, sound art, and immersive installation. Their work explores the meeting point of sound, technology, and urban space, often drawing on lived experiences; queer identity, disability and grief to shape compositional and performative approaches. Deeply engaged in Ireland’s contemporary/experimental arts through grassroots, queer & disability communities. 

Tadhg’s compositions have recently been performed and exhibited in Berlin, Bristol, Romania and Stockholm, with past performances at international masterclasses and concert halls across the United States, Colombia, and Europe. In Ireland, their work has been presented at Project Arts Centre, the RHA Gallery, Smock Alley Theatre, and IMRO for NMDX.

Sonia Killmann is an international saxophone player and electronic musician. They have performed across the UK and Europe and are collaborating closely with Cryptic Glasgow as a Cryptic artist, working in immersive installations and audiovisual performance. Sonia's work treads the boundaries between the familiar and the unfamiliar by merging organic and synthetic sound worlds. Sonia has been exploring Pauline Oliveros’ Deep Listening concepts through circular breathing and adapting environments in the context of live performance.

Presented by NCH