UCC Music staff and postgraduates @ SARC ITM Symposium

Happening On 24/07/2026

UCC Department of Music lecturer and MA Irish Traditional Music programme coordinator Dr. Jack Talty, and MA Experimental Sound Practice student Colleen Freeman will present and participate in panels at Irish Traditional Music and its Edges on 24th July. The symposium is organised and hosted by Queen's University Belfast's Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC).

SARC:

This symposium is a knowledge exchange, performance and discussion day, highlighting practices, considerations, and communities on the fringes of the tradition. 

While experimentation and development has always been a feature of traditional music, there are a remarkable number of recent examples of creative work that clearly exist on the boundaries of what is understood as Irish traditional music. Artists are combining standard approaches with new technologies, improvisation, other art forms and other genres of music.

Dr. Jack Talty will chair the paper session 'Edges of Place' and participate in the Plenary Discussion (in partnership with BelfastTrad).

Colleen Freeman will present her work 'Is Maith an Scéalaí an Aimsir: Rain, Embodiment, and Sonic Agency' as part of the concert closing the symposium.

For a full programme and list of presenters, visit the Symposium page on Queen's University Belfast's website.