Úna Monaghan (NC 2002) has been appointed Lecturer in Sound and Music Computing at Queen’s University Belfast. Úna, who read Natural Sciences at Newnham, also released her album Aonaracht, an album of new compositions for soloists and computer, in January 2023.
Aonaracht, meaning a combination of solitude/soloism or singleness in Irish, is a collection for solo traditional musicians and computer, combining traditional Irish with experimental electronic music.
Each piece has a different theme, exploring Irish traditional music and poetry, artificial intelligence, feminism, instrumentation and community. It includes text by Maureen Boyle, Ciaran Carson and Cathal Ó Searcaigh.
The album features Úna on the harp and computer with Paddy Glackin (fiddle), Saileog Ní Cheannabháin (piano), Tiarnán Ó Duinnchinn (uilleann pipes), Pauline Scanlon (voice) and Jack Talty (concertina).
You can read more about Úna in this article by the Irish Times.