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Jimmy Eadie is a sound artist, composer, and researcher working across sound design, audio engineering, music production, and software development. His practice-based research explores the relationship between creative production and technical systems, with outputs spanning hybrid installations and internationally presented performances. His academic work has been published in Organised Sound and Leonardo, as well as in Springer and IEEE conference proceedings, and he has presented at numerous peer-reviewed international conferences. He holds a PhD in Sonic Design and an MPhil (Hons) in Music & Media Technology, with additional professional training in acoustics and audio technologies. From 2009 to 2019, he played a central role in the development and delivery of music production programmes at Pulse College/Windmill Lane Studios, Griffith College Dublin, and University of Central Lancashire. His theatre sound design work has received multiple Irish Times Theatre Awards, including awards in 2011 and 2015, with additional nominations recognising his contribution to Irish theatre. As an audio engineer and producer, he worked on numerous critically acclaimed recordings from his Dublin-based studio between 2004 and 2014, and toured internationally, performing at venues including Carnegie Hall and Royal Albert Hall. He was a founding member of Crash Ensemble in 1997, serving as audio engineer and technical manager, and contributing to the development of the ensemble"s distinctive sound. Earlier in his career, he was a professional musician, releasing work on Ensign, Setanta, and Dirt Records.

Research Tags

Acoustics Audio Engineering Audio Production Audio Software Development Music Composition Signal Processing Sound Art Sound Design Theatre Sound Virtual Music Instrument Design

Representations

Details	Date
PhD External Examiner - Technological University of the Shannon	2025
Leonardo Journal Peer Review Panel (MIT).	2024
Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT) External Examiner Audio and Music Production	2022
Technological University of the Shannon and Midlands Midwest (TUS) External PhD Examiner.	2022
External Examiner PhD Transfer - Munster Technological University (Cork School of Music)	2022
Expert Panel, Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI)	2021
Chair for 'Sonic Spaces' Sounds of the Environment Seminar - School of Creative Arts, Trinity College Dublin.	2021

Memberships

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

Details	Date From	Date To
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)	2017	Present
The Teaching Council of Ireland	2016	Present
The Spatial Music Collective	2014	Present
The Association of Sound Designers	2012	Present
Music Producers Guild	2009	Present
Audio Engineering Society	2007	Present
The Irish Federation of University Teachers	2006	Present
Irish Music Rights Organisation	1990	Present

Publications and other Research Outputs

Publications

Peer Reviewed (267)
Non Peer Reviewed (13)

Jimmy Eadie, The New Irish Recording Company History, People, and Recordings, ICTMD-IE 21st Annual Conference 2026: Broadcasting Music and Dance, RTÉ Donnybrook Campus, Dublin, 17/4/26, 2026, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED URL

Jimmy Eadie, '100', RTE Radio 1, Radio Telefísín ireland, 2026, -, Broadcast, PUBLISHED URL

Jimmy Eadie/PanPan Theatre, 'Cascando', Celtic Club, Melbourne, Australia, Culture Ireland, 2026, -, Theatre Production, PUBLISHED URL

Jimmy Eadie/Paul Page, Dave Long, 'The Sentimental Tourists', Dublin, Ireland, Subjangle Records, Pretoria, South Africa, 2025, -, Music Production, PUBLISHED URL

Jimmy Eadie / PanPan Theatre, 'Cascando', Jermyn Street Theatre, London, UK, Culture Ireland, 2025, -, Theatre Production, PERFORMED URL

Jimmy Eadie, Mediating Spaces: Sound and Hybridity in Installation Practices, Art History, Presenting Art History and Theories, Nice, France, June 26-27, 2025, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED TARA - Full Text

Jimmy Eadie, 'Into Paradise 'Album 25'', UK, Bandcamp, Setanta, Ensign Records, 2025, Remastered - Curated, 1989-1993, Music Production, PUBLISHED PURL

Jimmy Eadie, 'Eno ~ 100 Worthwhile Dilemmas Plugin', Oblique Strategies, (VST/AU) Standalone, KVR Audio/Eadie Audio, 2025, -, Software, RELEASED URL URL

Jimmy Eadie, 'The New Irish Recording Company (NIRC)', Trinity College Dublin, Commission by Raidió Teilifís Éireann, Coimisiún na Meán., 2025, -, Broadcast, PUBLISHED URL PURL

Jimmy Eadie, 'Cascando', Daliangshan Theatre Festival, China, 2024, -, Theatre Production, PUBLISHED URL

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Jimmy Eadie/Adrian Curtin (Interview), The (Dead) Centre Cannot Hold: Ontological Insecurity in, 2023, - 159-175, Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED

Jimmy Eadie, 'Spatial Audio and Interactive Techniques in Sound Design for Theatre', Arts Council Ireland/LIR TCD, 2023, -, Digital research resource production, EXHIBITED

Jimmy Eadie, 'An Ruirthech [River Liffey]', Arts Council/Trinity College Dublin, 2020, -, Music Production, PUBLISHED

Jimmy Eadie , Artistic Research PhDs: Process, Experience And Ideas, Visioning the Future, Online, 22nd September, 2020, Invited Talk, PRESENTED

Jimmy Eadie, Jimmy Eadie, TCD Seminars GBHI Fellows Invited Talk Global Brain Health Institute, Concepts of creativity for brain health, Trinity College Dublin online, 18th September, 2020, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED

Jimmy Eadie, Sound Art , TCD Seminars GBHI Fellows, Online, June 5th, 2020, Global Brain Health Institute, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED

Bates, Enda; Eadie, Jimmy; Kang, Ji Youn; Mulvey, Gráinne; Dowling, Fergal; Nealon, Alexis, Workshop on Spatial Audio for Contemporary Music and Theatre, AES 146th Convention, Dublin, Ireland, March 2019, 2019, Audio Engineering Society, Dublin, Dublin, March, 2019, AES, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED

Jimmy Eadie, Theory & Practice within Sound Design, Samual Beckett Summer School, Trinity College Dublin, 2017, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED

Jimmy Eadie, Sound Design for Performance, LIR National Centre for Dramatic Arts, March, 2017, Loughlin Deegan, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED

Jimmy Eadie, 'Morton, John and Me...', Trinity College Dublin, 2017, -, Music Production, COMPLETED

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Awards and Honours

Award	Date
Coimisiún na Meán, Sound & Vision Broadcasting Funding Scheme.	2024
Agility Award Arts Council	2023
Arts Council of Ireland Bursary	2020
Professional Development Award, Arts Council	2020
Teaching Excellence Award Trinity (Nomination)	2020
Office of Public Works - Arts Grant	2017
Best in Sound Irish Times Theatre Awards	2016
Trinity Creative Challenge	2016
The Visual & Performing Arts Fund TCD	2016
The Visual & Performing Arts Fund TCD	2015
Arts Council of Ireland Bursary	2015
Arts Council Project Award	2016
Arts Council Project Award	2015
Arts Council Project Award	2014
Arts Council Travel Award	2015
Dublin City Council Arts Award	2013
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council -Arts Grant	2014
South Dublin County Council - Bursary	2013
Best Overall Production Edinburgh Festival for Embers w/PanPan	2013
Best in Sound Irish Times Theatre Awards	2011

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