Organic Synthesis brings together the final thesis projects of this year's Music and Media Technologies graduates at Trinity College Dublin, presented over two days in Stack B. The title marks a recurring pull across ideas: between the organics of the natural world and the electronic and experimental world of synthesis and machines.
The exhibition spans immersive installations, interactive and participatory pieces, live performances, visual music representations, spatial compositions, and prototype instruments/audio tools. Some projects present the ecological processes of our world as sound; others probe how machines listen and how technology mediates memory, presence and place. You are invited to move through it and experience what emerges.
Grace Adams
Man vs Machine: A Perceptual Evaluation of AI and Human Mastering
Jesse Ash
Revealing the Acoustic Ecology of the Unheard
Through Locative Audio Augmented Reality
Sanju Alex
A Practice‑Led Investigation into Spatial Audio as a Structural Parameter in Progressive Rock/Fusion Music
Joe Bracken
Everything is Made of Colour
Brian Cory
Neural Network Based Emulation of the DBX 160 VCA Compressor: A Perceptual Evaluation Against Commercial DSP Plugin Emulations
Vedasya Deva
Grief as a Search for Connection: Embodied Data for Audiovisual Co-Composition in an Interactive Installation
Aengus Gilligan
Gathering Power: Soundscape as Social Ethnographic Research
Kayla Lee
Acoustic Feature Trajectories and the Perception of
Machine Autonomy
Alessandro Loro
Recreating Acoustic Amplitude Panning in Choral Music
Poyun Mao
Instrument Timbre and Anxiety Reduction in Auditory Navigation for Visually Impaired Users: A Comparison of Violin, Marimba, Piano, and Synthesised Sound Across Three Headphone Types
Bernhardt McKenna-Doeblitz
Composing Consequence: Can soundscape composition techniques in an interactive installation reflect humans' influence on natural sound environments?
Rory Mulligan
Sounding the Underground:
Modelling Mycorrhizal Fungi as Sonic Environments
Laura Paron
Enhancement of a Sampler Instrument with Physical Modelling in Decent Sampler
Gabrielle Seymour
Development of a Digital Kora VST: From Multi-Perspective Sampling to Hybrid Physical Modelling
John Turner
An Acoustics Informed Approach to Natural Reproduction of Pipe Organ Reverberation
Yizheng Wang
Evaluation and Optimization of Speech Obfuscation Strategies in Soundscape Recordings