Robin Parmar
Robin Parmar is an electroacoustic composer, improviser, and sound artist based in Ireland. His pieces have been played in Canada, United States, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, England, Germany, and Sweden. He explores the phenomenology of place and the poetics of memory using non-narrative film, generative installations, poetic texts, and environmental composition. Research interests include psychoacoustics, visual music, field recording, audio synthesis, radiophonics, and epistemologies of nature. He has released eleven albums: on Silent Records, Gruenrekorder, and his own Stolen Mirror (Ireland). "Music for Glaciers," a generative performance, debuted on Culture Night 2019 in Limerick. His film "The Swerve" premiéred at Light Moves: Festival of Screendance 2018. Awards include the Invisible Places residency (The Azores, 2017) and an Arts Council Bursary (2017).
Robin has a doctorate in Sonic Creativity from De Montfort University (Leicester, UK) and is Lecturer in Video, Film, and Visual Communication at the University of Limerick (Ireland). He is Vice-President of the Irish Science, Sound, and Technology Association (ISSTA) and is on the board of Interference: Journal of Audio Culture.
Robin participated in the conference Beyond Listening in Budapest 2023
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