Organic Synthesis — 26MMT Graduate Exhibition poster
2026 MMT Graduate Exhibition · 27–28 August

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

Location · Stack B, TCD