Cárthach Ó Nuanáin (b. 1985) is an artist, researcher and educator specialising in new music & technology. His diverse expertise and interests include computational musicology and music information retrieval; electroacoustic composition, performance and theory; new interfaces; sound art and interactive media. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Music in 2018 from the Music Technology Group at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona where he worked and taught with the Musical and Advanced Interaction Team.
Currently he teaches and researches at the Cork School of Music (part of Munster Technological University).
He has presented and performed prize-winning work at festivals and events across all hemispheres, including the Dublin Electronic Arts Festival (DEAF), Darklight Film Festival, New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Sound and Music Computing Conference, Audio Mostly, Sónar International Festival of Advanced Music, Music Tech Fest, Phonos Foundation, Sonic Environments / Australasian Computer Music Conference, Radiophrenia Festival, International Symposium for Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research and the International Computer Music Conference.
Outside of academia and electroacoustic music he is active as a performer and engineer of all sorts of other music, particuarly Ireland’s native traditional music, electronica and jazz/swing. He has also worked for several years as an audio producer/engineer for Microsoft on many of their Xbox titles. Mostly dialog localisation into languages other than English but also some field recording, sound design and effects on games like Forza, Flight and Kinect Star Wars. Partial (auto generated, not by me) list of credits on MobyGames and IMDb:-
http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,501040
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4864217/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr43
(About the Name)
It It can be tricky to pronounce, even for most Irish natives. For people not familiar with the Irish language it is worth noting that the fada accent changes the sound of vowel. Also the letter “t” is silent in the firstname part.
Thus you make a good attempt with:
Cor-uck Oh Noo-nawn
Here’s an audio example from an Irish speaker from the West of the island: