Rory Murphy is an Irish composer and music theorist. His work has a primary focus on experimental and invented notation, dealing with the phenomenology of performance and interpretation and often taking multi-sensory and three-dimensional approaches in order to create a more embodied interaction for the performer. Recent examples include “frequency illusion” and “Hilling”, which explored intersensation and expanded use of the sense of sight, incorporating visual perception of texture, distance, line, and colour.
Following “Hilling”, he is now developing a totally touch-based piece which will premiere in Assisi in August 2025 having originated there while artist-in-residence at Arte Studio Ginestrelle alongside collaborator Sara Di Costanzo (flute). Other recent projects include a set of seven pieces for Andrew McPherson’s magnetic resonator piano, and the creation of a new compositional tool for the generation and progression of hexadic harmonic structures (this was used in the composition of “nonsense” for string quartet).
He received his M.Mus. in Composition from Iceland University of the Arts (2023) and B.A. in Music from Trinity College Dublin (2018), and completed an Erasmus Graduate Traineeship in Artistic Research at Orpheus Institute in Ghent, Belgium (2024). His music has been performed publicly in Belgium, Iceland, and Northern Ireland.
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