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Dr. Enda Bates

Course Director & Assistant Prof (Electronic & Elect. Engineering)
ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH
      
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Dr. Enda Bates

Course Director & Assistant Prof (Electronic & Elect. Engineering)
ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH

 ebates@tcd.ie

 3531896 2253


Enda Bates is a composer, musician, producer and academic based in Dublin, Ireland, and an Assistant Professor and director of the Music and Media Technologies programme in Trinity College Dublin. In 2010 he completed a PhD entitled The Composition & Performance of Spatial Music, while current research interests include spatial music, spatial audio for VR, the aesthetics of electroacoustic music, and the Augmented Electric Guitar. He is an active composer of acoustic and electroacoustic contemporary music and scores and other material are available from his page at the Irish Contemporary Music Centre. His music has been performed by, among others, the Crash Ensemble, the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Choir Ireland, Anne La Berge, Concorde, Trio Scordatura, Darragh Morgan, the Doelen Quartet, and New Dublin Voices. He has received various commissions and awards including the 37th Florilege Vocal de Tours, the 2008 Irish National Choir of the Year competition, the 2009 Gaudeamus Music Prize shortlist and the 2010 Música Viva Competition. He is a founder member of the Spatial Music Collective and is an active performer, both of his own work and with The Spook of the Thirteenth Lock, Miriam Ingram, Nina Hynes/Dancing Suns, amongst others. He has also worked as a producer/engineer for a variety of artists and groups such as the Crash Ensemble, Mumbling Deaf Ro, Somadrone, and Conor Walsh.
  Chamber Music   Choral Music   Composition and Algorithmic composition, spectral music   Computer Music   electroacoustic music   interactive audio and sound design   microtonal music   music cognition and perception   Music Composition   music production   Music Technology   New Music   spatial audio   spatial music
Project Title
 Immersive 360 Video Productions
From
25/10/2018
To
20/12/2019
Summary
This collaboration project involved the production of two immersive 360 degree videos featuring spatial musical performances, and associated behind-the-scenes videos documenting the making of each production. The first video consisted of a performance by a saxophone quintet in four, distinct locations around the Trinity campus in June 2018. The final 360 video of the performance was released on the Soundfield Website in March 2019. The second video consisted of a performance of Thomas Tallis' landmark work of 16th century choral spatial music, Spem in Alium. The piece was performed by New Dublin Voices choir in the Samuel Beckett Theatre in May 2019, and the final video released in December 2019. The productions have been documented in detail on the Trinity360 blog, and via behind the scenes video on the Soundfield website.
Funding Agency
Rode Microphones
Project Type
Collaboration Agreement
Person Months
6
Project Title
 Trinity 360
From
09/2015
To
Summary
TRINITY 360 is an ongoing project of 360 video music productions funded as part of the Trinity Creative initiative.
Funding Agency
Trinity College Dublin
Programme
Trinity Creative initiative
Project Type
Creative Arts
Person Months
15

Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
English Fluent Fluent Fluent
Details Date From Date To
Audio Engineering Society - full member 01/01/2015
Audio Engineering Society - Chair of the Ireland Regional Section 01/01/2019
Association of Irish Composers 2013
Irish Music Rights Organization (IMRO) 2005
Irish, Sound, Science and Technology Association (ISSTA) 2012
Nan Zheng and Nils Peters and Enda Bates, On the relationship between objective room acoustic parameters and perceived differences in spatially interpolated RIRs, International Conference on Immersive and 3D Audio (I3DA), Bologna, Sept. 2025, 2025, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Néill O'Dwyer, Enda Bates, Nicholas Johnson, Reimagining Beckett's Not I in Virtual Reality: The MetaHuman as a Digital Double of the Actor, Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, 8, (3), 2025, p1 - 10, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Mauricio Flores-Vargas, Enda Bates, Rachel McDonnell, First-Person Vocal Auralisation in XR and its Influence on Perceived Presence and Audio-Visual Quality, 2025, p1586 - 1596, p1586-1596 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Mauricio Flores Vargas, Rose Connolly, Enda Bates, Rachel McDonnell, Immersive Vocal Practice: Audio-Visual Evaluation of an Acoustic Virtual Environment for Vocal Rehearsal and Performance, 2025, p1 - 10, p1-10 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
"What does THIS Mean?": A Collaborative Expert Evaluation of Health Data Representations for Older Adults in, Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024, pp365-372 , [Jean, Peterson, Murphy, Emma, Bates, Enda], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  DOI
Accessibility of Health Data Representations for Older Adults: Challenges and Opportunities for Design in, Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023, pp486-493 , [Jean, Peterson, Murphy, Emma, Bates, Enda], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  DOI
Vargas, M.F. and Fribourg, R. and Bates, E. and McDonnell, R., Now I Wanna Be a Dog: Exploring the Impact of Audio and Tactile Feedback on Animal Embodiment, 2023, pp912-921 , Notes: [cited By 0], Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  DOI
Enda Bates, William David, Daniel Dempsey, Ambisonic Decoder Test Methodologies based on Loudspeaker Reproduction, Audio Engineering Society, 152nd European Convention, Online, May 7-8th, 2022, Audio Engineering Society, 2022, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  URL
Enda Bates, Ambisonic Decoder Test Methodologies based on Binaural Reproduction, 150th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society , Online, May, 2021, 2021, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text
Samuel Beckett's Play in Digital Culture: Technologies of Influence in, editor(s)Anita Rákóczy, Mariko Hori Tanaka, and Nicholas E. Johnson, , Influencing Beckett / Beckett Influencing, Budapest and Paris, L'Harmattan / Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, 2020, pp145 - 157, [Nicholas Johnson, Néill O'Dwyer, Enda Bates], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  URL
  

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Enda Bates, Zeynep Bulut, Mattia Cobianchi, Neasa Ní Chiarain, Sound & Technology, Sonic Spaces |, The Long Room Hub, 02 December, 2020, The Long Room Hub, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Enda Bates, 'Spem in Alium', (Trinity 360), Soundfield Website, Soundfield Microphones, 2019, -, Film production, RELEASED
Enda Bates, 'Broken, Unbroken', Trinity360, Soundfield Website, Soundfield Microphones, 2019, -, Film production, 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, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Enda Bates, Spatial Music Composition Lecture, ZêzereArts Festival, Tomar, Portugal, 19/07/2019, 2019, ZêzereArts Festival, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Enda Bates, String Pull, 2019, -, Notes: [Art Installation exhibited in Dublin and Stockholm as part of the Sound Check Exhibition.], Miscellaneous, PRESENTED
O'Dwyer, Hugh, Bates, Enda and Boland, Francis M, A Machine Learning Approach to Detecting Sound-Source Elevation in Adverse Environments, Audio Engineering Society Convention 144, Milan, Italy, May 2018, (9968), 2018, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Enda Bates, Spatial Audio and VR, Immersive Stories Conference, Dublin International Film Festival, Dublin, Ireland, Feb 2018, 2018, Dublin International Film Festival, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Enda Bates, Practical Ambisonics, 2018, -, Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED
Enda Bates, An Introduction to Ambisonics / Comparing Ambisonic Microphones, 2018, -, Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED

  


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Award Date
Cork Choral Festival Composer in Residence 2013
Música Viva Competition Prize winner 2010
Gaudeamus Music Prize shortlist 2009
Florilege Vocal de Tours - Special Prize for a New Production 2008