b. 1995 (human #105,485,752,487)
Rory Murphy is an Irish composer and music theorist.
His work has a primary focus on notation, in particular on experimental and invented notation, dealing with the phenomenology of performance and interpretation, and often operating through multi-sensory and three-dimensional approaches in order to create a more embodied interaction for the performer. Recent examples include frequency illusion and Hilling, which explored intersensory and expanded use of the sense of sight, incorporating visual perception of texture, distance, line, and colour.
Rory was artist-in-residence alongside Sara Di Costanzo at Arte Studio Ginestrelle in Assisi in September 2024, where they began the development of a project whose notation will use the somatosensory system alone, relying for example on the experience of touch, balance, and heat. He has twice received an Agility Award from Arts Council Ireland, for work using Andrew McPherson's Magnetic Resonator Piano (2024) and for the development of a new system for the generation of hexadic harmonic structures (2023), and twice received grants from Tónskáldasjóður RÚV og STEFs (RÚV and STEF Composer's Fund, Iceland), for a composition-notation project using the magnetic resonator piano (2023) and for the project Hilling, a notation-installation in textiles (2022).
His works have been performed by Xenia Pestova Bennett, Quatuor Flume, Caput Ensemble, Edda Óskarsdóttir, Messíana Kristinsdóttir, Sara Di Costanzo, and Ensemble Adapter with John McCowen.