An album by Quiet Music Ensemble, a group created by UCC’s head of Film, Music and Theatre, John Godfrey, was awarded a prestigious Coup de Coeur for Experimental Music by the Académie Charles Cros in Paris this February.

Alex Khalil of UCC is lead researcher with the SoundMind project, a groundbreaking international research initiative exploring the use of augmented audio reality (AAR) to continuously deliver sounds that have shown potential to treat Alzheimer’s Disease.

There is a growing movement amongst researchers to encourage ethnic communities to curate and conserve their own heritage, including music. Lijuan Qian is principal investigator of the five -year community-engaged ERC-funded research project ECura, Everyone’s a Curator: Digitally Empowering Ethnic Minority Music Sustainability in China.

UCC celebrates the successful conclusion of the world’s first global hip-hop knowledge-mapping project, CIPHER: Hip Hop Interpellation, funded by a €2 million European Research Council consolidator grant and led by Prof. Griffith Rolleffson.

UCC’s Music Department has held a central place in the history of Irish Traditional Music since its first Professor of Irish Traditional Music, Carl Hardebeck, was appointed in 1922.

Yvon Bonenfant, UCC’s Head of Theatre and Director of the Future Humanities Institute, is the inspiration behind Toward the Opposite of Queer Trauma – A Voice-Movement Choir professional-participatory arts project, which is halfway through its research and development phase.