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PATRICK MCGLYNN is a musician and composer of ambient, chip and experimental music. Patrick holds a BA and MA in computer music from NUI Maynooth, where is he is lecturing in music technology and completing his PhD on interaction design for digital musical instruments. He is currently working on SurfacePlayer and OSCar, multi-touch performance systems for musicians which have recently been presented in Ireland (ISSTC), the USA (NIME12), UK (IFIMPaC, SAFUK) and Brazil (SBCM11, UbiMus11/12).

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PUBLICATIONS

2^nd August 2012
Spatial Tagging: A Preliminary Study
(with Victor Lazzarini, Damián Keller, Marcelo Soares Pimenta & Marcelo Queiroz)
2nd Irish Sound, Science & Technology Convocation, Cork School of Music, Cork.
[Abstract] [Slides] [Site]

7^th July 2012
Multi-touch gestures for Musical Performance – live demo ‘singing bowls’
Sonic Arts Forum, School of Music, University of Leeds, UK.
[Site]

22^nd May 2012
Recontextualizing the Multi-touch Surface
(with Victor Lazzarini, Gordon Delap & Xiaoyu Chen)
12th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.
[Abstract] [Paper] [Poster] [Site]

22^nd May 2012
Considering Audience’s View Towards an Evaluation Methodology for Digital Musical Instruments(with Jerônimo Barbosa, Filipe Calegario, Veronica Teichrieb & Geber Ramalho)
12th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.
[Abstract] [Paper] [Site]

4^th May 2012
OSCar: A non-visual multi-touch controller
3rd Ubiquitous Music Workshop, Sao Paulo, ES. Brazil.
[Abstract] [Video] [Slides] [Site]

27^th April 2012
Live demonstration/performance of work
International Festival for Innovation in Music Production & Composition, Leeds College of Music, UK.
[Site]

20^th January 2012
Non-Visual Interfaces for Musical Performance using Multi-touch
(with Edward Costello)
Society for Musicology in Ireland Postgraduate Conference, DIT Conservatory of Music & Drama, Dublin.
[Abstract] [Site]

25^th November 2011
Expression through Design: Unifying the Creative Tools of the Electronic Performer
‘Echoes and reflections’ Inaugural Interdisciplinary Seminar, An Foras Feasa, NUI Maynooth.
[Abstract] [Site]

2^nd September 2011
Developing a Method for Multi-touch
2nd Ubiquitous Music Workshop, Vitória, ES. Brazil.
[Abstract] [Site]

1^st September 2011
Analysing Multi-touch Data for Expressive Musical Control
13th Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music, Vitória, ES. Brazil.
[Abstract] [Site]

9^th July 2011
Improving the Efficiency of Open Sound Control with Compressed Address Strings
(with Jari Kleimola, Aalto University, Finland)
8th Sound & Music Computing Conference, Padova, Italy.
[Abstract] [Paper] [Site]

25^th June 2011
Evaluating the Expressive Potential of New Gestural Interfaces through Experimental Musical Application Development
9th Annual Society for Musicology in Ireland Conference, RIAM, Dublin.
[Abstract] [Site]

7^th May 2011
Towards More Effective Mapping Strategies for Digital Musical Instruments
9th Annual Linux Audio Conference, NUI Maynooth.
[Abstract] [Paper] [Video] [Slides] [Site]

13^th April 2011
Sound Augmented Vision
Irish National Finals ‘Imagine Cup’, Microsoft, Dublin.
[Site]

27^th January 2011
Motion & Metaphor
Society for Musicology in Ireland Postgraduate Conference, Queen’s University, Belfast.
[Abstract] [Site]

14^th January 2011
Intelligent Mapping in Digital Musical Instrument Design
Irish Workshop on Music and Audio Signal Processing, Trinity College, Dublin.
[Abstract] [Site]

12^th July 2010
Sound Sculptures: Exploring Music through Motion
3 Minute Gong Competition, NUI Maynooth.
[Site]

5^th March 2010
Acoustic Intimacy and Electronic Possibility: Exploring the Expressive Potential of Gesture in Performer-Instrument Interfaces
Music Department Postgraduate Conference, NUI Maynooth.