Work Composed for a performance in Brazil inspired by the poet Clarice Lispector's and her work ‘Se eu fosse eu’ (If I were me).

If I Were Me

Composed in Brazil for the album Silent Spring for the Label Flaming Pines, released in 2019.

Strange Birds 2019

This piece was commissioned by Oxford University in 2021 for the 
A collaboration with composer and musician Tony Doyle. This work examines the way in which a language or sound evolves, becomes transmuted, muted or disappears as it moves beyond the centre, or source of its origin as a result of colonial transformations and post-colonial forgetting.

As Gaeilge Time and Space 2021 by Linda O Keeffe & Tony Doyle

Track 1 on my album \metamorphosis and Praxis, with the Label Farpointrecordings

Sorrow keening 2010

Track 2 on album Metamorphosis and Praxis, label Farpointrecordings

Elemental Argument 27-06-2010

track 3 on album Metamorphosis and Praxis, 

THE ECSTASY OF ST THERESA

A piece composed by David Canning and Linda O Keeffe, one track from the album Derry Soundscapes which was made in collaboration with a number of third age artists in Derry as part of a larger research project I was working on.
http://lindaokeeffe.com/blog/#/blog/cd-release-derry-soundscapes/

Belfast Rose

In 2010 I started collecting a series of sonic memories from older people from the north inner city of Dublin.  These interviews were based on how they remembered the inner city soundscape, both natural and technological, from their youth; this was during the 1950s and 1960s. As an artist and sociologist, my role is to not just document the world, it involves asking how particular problems or issues can be challenged or changed.  One way is through writing and analyzing these issues, but another way, is to create an artistic response, crossing the discipline of the arts and sciences. This track will feature on my new album coming out early next year. 

May's Song

Part of a collaborative work in progress with sonic artist Slavek Kwi.

HotandColdCollab

This piece was created in 2004 as part of an interactive installation. It is one half of the audio of this work, the other can be found here. The work was based on a poem I wrote which was performed by four women in a large factory space.  
http://cec.sonus.ca/electrobox/sonus03/okeefe_tuning_in_1.mp3.

Tuning In Women

A piece created in 2006 while on residency in France. It explores the transformation of meaning when words are translated into different languages, it was an early examination of AI from a philosophical perspectice.

Sentient

A piece commissioned for label Flaming Pines album Footfalls (edition 2). The USB or digital album can be purchased here https://flamingpines.bandcamp.com/album/footfalls-edition-2.

Walking LaFatarella 2020

Dr. Linda O Keeffe is a sound artist based in Edinburgh, Scotland. She is head of the School of Art at Edinburgh College of Art. She is founder of the Women in Sound Women on Sound (WISWOS) organisation, Editor-in-Chief for the Interference Journal, a journal of audio cultures. She Co-Founded the Irish Sound Science and Technology Association in 2009 and was President from 2015-17.

O Keeffe has had works performed and exhibited in Asia, the USA, Brazil, Canada and Europe. In 2018 O Keeffe was awarded the Arts Council of England international travel award to undertake a large research project which included touring Brazil giving talks, performances and organising workshops, symposia and outreach activities. During this time she released two albums (album 1, album 2) and published a paper, Applying Feminist Methodologies in the Sonic Arts: Sound Walking as a Process, full paper here. Other recent works include; an exhibition at the New Art Exchange (NAE) Gallery Nottingham 2017, a commission for the Ormston Gallery as part of EV&A festival in Ireland 2016, Murder Machine, a solo exhibition for the Leitrim Sculpture Centre in 2014, ‘Spaces of Sound and Radio Spaces’, and in 2017 was commissioned to be part of the creative team developing an interactive and immersive theatre production in Manchester at The Horsefall space. Her work is predominantly sound based with a focus on installation and performance as well as soundscape studies. She has created works for radio, dance and public installation projects. In 2010 she released an album with Farpoint recordings, Metamorphosis and Praxis and collaborative albums with Artificial Memory Trace in 2012 and 2017. Her written publications include, ‘Thinking Through New Methodologies-Sounding out the city with teenagers’, published by the Qualitative Sociological Review (2015), ‘Memories of sound: socioeconomic, community and cultural soundscapes of Smithfield, Dublin from the 1950s’ (2016) in the 2nd Ed. of the Auditory Culture Reader, and Reclaiming Public Space: Sound and Mobile Media Use by Teenagers, published in the International Journal of Communication (2015).

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