'Graduates 2007-08'

Jason Martin

On graduating from my MSc I initially worked a few odd jobs to help assemble the equipment I needed to create my own compact studio. As the meters of cable and boxes of knobs slowly increased, I began to get some commercial sound design work. I finally decided to study a business course through Invest NI’s Go for It program (www.goforitni.com/start-a-business) and was able to start my own fledgling company Augmented Audio. There’s work out there but no one’s going to give it to you on a plate. It’s a horrid term but networking really is important.

Commercial work aside I created a website to document projects I’ve worked on and things I’ve made- www.hermetic-developments.com/

Alma Kelliher

Sound Designer and Composer

Alma Kelliher has a BA in Music from Trinity College, Dublin and an MSc in Sound Design from Edinburgh University. She studied Organ to diploma level with the London College of Music and Media.

Alma is currently a member of the Rough Magic SEEDS Programme 2010-11, a theatre initiative in Dublin which allows five young theatre practitioners to gain experience alongside Ireland’s top theatre makers, both on placements and trips abroad to see and experience international theatre. This culminates in a showcase performance as part of the 2011 ABSOLUT Dublin Fringe Festival.

Previous theatre credits include sound for Plaza Suite (Rough Magic 11), the development of Jacques Cousteau is in the Silent World, (Making Strange 10) and the productions: Dead Cat Bounce… Too Fast For Love (Edinburgh Fringe Festival 10), Missing (Project Brand New 10), Basin (Anu Productions, Dublin Fringe Festival 09), Dead Cat Bounce… Wired (Edinburgh Fringe Festival 09) Extremities (Spark to a Flame 09), Zillah (The Headphone Theatre Project, Edinburgh 08), and as assistant sound designer and composer on Beauty and the Beast (National Theatre, London, 10) Sodome My Love, The Importance of Being Earnest and Phaedra (Rough Magic, 10).

Previous film and television work include The Incredible Shrinking Office (New Star Fish Enterprises), The Holiday Show (Trilogy Media, TV3), Lullaby (Barry Reddin dir.), The House and Veronique (both Timesnap Productions). Musical Director of Pop Céilî, an eight piece music fusion group. Also created a collection of music inspired by the book Magician by Raymond E Feist in 2007.