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KNECT

KNECT is a music facility owned by Kevin Nolan.

 

The aim of KNECT is to enable innovative composing by merging piano, hardware synthesizers, computer & orchestral composing techniques and experimental software (Cycling 74 MAX, IRCAM’s Spatialisateur…). It’s a work in progress and an enormous challenge…

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Focus

 

 

Music: Acoustic, electronic and computer music across orchestral, electronic & instrumental genres…

Science: Mars, Life in the Universe, Grid computing, Communicating good science…

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Music Projects

 

 

Projects in development:

-       Orchestral / Piano

-       Immrana (Celtic Mystical Voyage) – electronic work

Upcoming projects:

-       The Last Perfect Day

-       The Rose

-       Hibernation

-       Pyramid

-       Deep Field

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Music for TV & Theatre

 

 

TV      Theatre      Radio      Video

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Tools @ KNECT

 

 

Studio Listing

Facility images

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Science Projects

 

 

Current Research:

-       ESA Integral/OMC (1999-2005): design of software for ESA’s Integral probe (constituting my nearing-completion PhD)

-       Grid analysis of the SDSS catalogue in the search for candidate stars possessing exoplanets (small research group where I lecture at ITTD, Dublin).

Outreach

-       Volunteer Coordinator Ireland for The Planetary Society

Writing:

-       Mars, A Cosmic Stepping Stone  is my first popular-science book, published by Praxis/Copernicus Books, NY, September 2008

Technology

-       Korg OASYS Beta Tester (2006 – 2008)

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Affiliation

 

 

UCLA Film Scoring Program

Dublin Philharmonic Orchestra

Irish Film and Television Academy Member

ForumIRCAM
YAMAHA CS80
  @ YAMAHA Classic Corner
Irish Music Rights Organization (IMRO)
Dreamlines Entertainment Limited
The Planetary Society (TPS)

Korg OASYS

Blackrock Castle Observatory

RLMusic

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Contact

 

 

Email knolan@knect.ie
Tel:   +353 87 238 6141

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