Experience

Sound Designer | Arturia | Feb 2026 – July 2026

Arturia Sound Design Work
  • Designed 500 presets across 45 Arturia instruments for the Arturia VC 12 Collection.
  • Designed 100 presets for the Arturia Polybrute 12 Metro library.
  • Led QA and FX optimization for the ~850 preset Analog Lab / Astro Lab 2.0 update. Completed 3.5 months ahead of schedule.
  • QA contributor for 200 presets for Memory V.
  • QA contributor for 300 presets in the Beyond series (Beyond Electronica/Indie/Ballads).
  • QA contributor for 50 Rev Ocean presets.
  • Developed a binary-injection system for dramatically increased preset levelling efficiency across multi-thousand preset libraries; incorporating AI, Lua, Reaper, and Python.
  • Developed Sunny, a local AnythingLLM Llama 3.1 model trained on Arturia's synth manuals to provide sound synthesis assistance.
  • Hosted masterclasses in AI/sound-design integration for the Arturia sound design team.

Educator, Videographer, Audio Engineer | Deathcorp | Apr 2024 – Feb 2026

Arturia Sound Design Work
  • Founded Deathcorp as an educational service that synthesises classical pedagogy with modern production.
  • Coded the site (HTML/CSS/JS), filmed/graded/edited all visual content (DaVinci), and created AILA (ElevenLabs API/OpenAI API4) - Deathcorp's AI assistant for lesson booking.
  • Created the custom M4L devices: Deathverb (reverb/bitcrusher) & Voidswarm (chorus).
  • Created custom python scripts for Sharp batch image editing & conversion, and efficiency-first ProRes YouTube video upload.
  • Engineered/Mixed/Mastered the Expansive Canvas concerts for The Royal Irish Academy of Music (Dublin), inclusive of performances by Ursula Erhart-Schwertmann & Elisabeth Aigner-Monarth; Judith Valerie Engel; and Tabitha Selley & Cheryl Tan.
  • Engineered/Filmed/Graded performances for early-career Irish and European classical artists including: Oryna Veselovska, Laura Aherne, and Eadaoin Hassett.

Artist | The World Without You | May 2024 – Present

Arturia Sound Design Work
  • Songwriter / Composer / Producer / String Arranger / Performer / Sound Designer / Editor as a member of The World Without You.
  • Currently finalizing productions for new albums set to be mixed by George Lever (Sleep Token, Loathe).
  • Orchestrated parts and led studio sessions with Parallax Orchestra at Middlefarm Studios (Devon, UK), and piano (Conor McCarthy) & choral (New Dublin Voices) sessions at Windmill Lane Studios (Dublin, Ireland).
  • Collaborators include: George Lever, Nolly Getgood, Peter Miles, Nathan Smart, Mike Malyan, Lewis Johns and Parallax Orchestra.

Record Label Artist | Epitaph Records | Apr 2017 – Apr 2024

Arturia Sound Design Work
  • Previously signed to American rock record label Epitaph Records; relocated to Los Angeles on a J-1 artists' visa to work in studios across West Hollywood and Burbank.

Musician | The Matthews | Jan 2011 – Apr 2017

Arturia Sound Design Work
  • Performed leading venues and festivals throughout Ireland and Northern Ireland.
  • Performed for the Irish President Michael D. Higgins.
  • Irish Young Music Group of the Year (Hotpress).

Education

PhD in Music Technology, Part-Time Distance Learning 2026 (Application in progress)
University of York, UK

Postgraduate Professional Mentorship in Orchestral Composition, 2026 (Ongoing)
Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin

BMus Classical Composition (Honours), 2025
Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin


Skills

Audio

Reaper / Ableton / PT / Logic Sound Design Foley Engineering Editing Mixing Mastering Production Wwise Fmod

Music

Composition Orchestration & Arrangement Advanced Theory/Harmony Analysis Electric/Classical Gtr / Piano / Bass

Technical

Python (Pandas, Numpy, Torchaudio, Mido, Pedalboard, Pytorch) M4L / Max/MSP Supercollider Lua JS / HTML / CSS PD CSound Strudel

AI

Sys 1 (General Models) Sys 2 (Thinking Models) Advanced Prompt Engineering OpenAI API ElevenLabs API Ollama AnythingLLM

Visuals

Content Creation Youtube Scripting DaVinci Lua/Python Integration Photography Filming Editing Grading Affinity Jitter TouchDesigner Hydra

Admin

Notion Google Workspace (Docs, Sheets etc...) Server familiarity Dropbox