


This collection of pieces explores the idea of space; both the outer spaces we see and the inner spaces they open within us. Each work begins with a photograph: a view from my home in rural County Cork, Ireland, where I have lived for over twenty years. These images are not just records of a scene, but invitations into reflection, calm, and beauty.

From each photograph, I extract data that generates random sequences of notes. Out of these, fragments become apparent, sequences that feel alive in some way, or suggestive of atmosphere. This provides a sonic palette that is then arranged and manipulated to create shifting textures of sound.

Some pieces also include field recordings made at the time and place of the photograph. Birds, dogs, cattle, wind, distant farm machinery, sounds I hear every day. These also become part of the same sonic space as the transformed notes.

What emerges is less a direct translation of image to sound than a way of inhabiting it. Each piece becomes a space in itself: a place to pause, to listen, to wander inward while remaining rooted in the world outside.

01 - Space #1 (Types Of Space)

Duncan O’Cleirigh - Biography
Duncan O’Cleirigh is a producer, and composer with over 35 years of experience in live
audio, recording, and sound design. Touring internationally, mixing for diverse artists before
moving into recording and production.
Duncan’s work has expanded to experimental composing / sound design for visual media;
His works The Universal Language (installation Culture Night 2024), A Type of Space and
Ambient 1 have received airplay on The Blue of the Night and on Ambient Orbit
(RTELyricFM)
Past work includes;
Sound design for XR ECO+/The Kinship Project (2024) with Ann Burns.
An ongoing collaboration with Lucy Phelan on the Women Make Art The soundtrack for the film Fairways to Happiness (Documentary 2021).
His current work explores the interrelationship between visual and sonic representations of
space and the sonorities that result from this.
He holds a first-class honours MA in Experimental Sound Practice from University College
Cork.

01 - Space #1 (Types Of Space)

Duncan O'Cleirigh