Production:
Linda Buckley - music
Mike Liffey - writer/video
Layla O’Mara – director
Enda Bates – audio designer
Brian Solon - video systems designer
Fionnuala Conway – producer

The group has been actively promoting new composition and performance techniques and have dazzled audiences throughout Ireland. This year the group will present 4 Irish premieres in the Printing House Festival of New Music, work with Linda Buckley at the Dublin Electronic Arts Festival, support Shaz Oye in Dublin and continue their touring schedule with concerts planned in Dublin, Cork, Galway and Waterford.

Bulraga's performances vary from pubs to disused churches and have been described as anarchic... run of the mill is not a term suited to Bulraga," "uniquely exilarating," and "agonizingly powerful."
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Christopher is a former member of Dublin Youth Theatre and DCU Drama Society, where his credits include 'The Proposal', 'Someone Who'll Watch Over Me', and 'Antigone'.

While at DCU, he was awarded 'Best Actor' for 2003/2004, as he successfully neglected his studies in his first and final year of a degree in Journalism. In 2005 he spent a 7 week internship as a working actor with 'nervousystem' theatre company (www.nervousystem.net). In the last year he has produced and acted in several short films: 'Picnic', 'l'Oeuf', 'Park, and 'I Want to be Someone like Somebody else once was'.
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She has written extensively for both electronic and acoustic forces including Javanese Gamelan, choir, multi-channel tape and prepared piano. She was a prizewinner at the International Young Composers Meeting at Apeldoorn, the Netherlands for her work Bobeobi which has been extensively performed by the Orchestra de Ereprijs. She has also participated in the Bang on a Can Summer Institute of Music at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.

Her work has been performed in Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Egypt, Canada, the U.S.A. and at festivals including (re)sounding spaces at New York University and the International Gaudeamus Music Week, Amsterdam.
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Mike Liffey
Mike Liffey is a musician, writer and filmmaker. A recent graduate of the M.Phil. in Music and Media Technologies at Trinity College, Mike concentrated on music and image production and also combining performance and new media throughout his studies at TCD. He is a member of the group Mail Order Messiahs who have recently completed their debut album and his films and music videos have been shown as part of the Darklight Film Festival in recent years.
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Layla O’Mara
Layla O’Mara is a writer and director who makes both theatre and multimedia installations. Some of her projects to date are How Jane Brown Grew Her Fingers and Toes which she wrote and directed with her company Punch/Drunk in the Dublin Fringe Festival, Machinal and Ghost Sonata in the Samuel Beckett Centre, This Lime Tree Bower at the New Theatre and the SFX. She has also worked with the Pan Pan Theatre Symposium, the Dublin Theatre Festival and as PR & Marketing Manager with the Dublin Fringe Festival. In addition she is currently writing a MA at the Samuel Beckett Centre.
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Enda Bates

Enda Bates writes records and performs music under the alias Fairlights. His first release, the Deadweight E.P. was recorded in 2003, and the debut Fairlights album, Scraps, was released on the Alphabet Set label in 2005 (www.alphabetset.net). Fairlights have played numerous gigs around Dublin including the Ballroom of Romance, Lazybird, the DEAF festival (www.deafireland.com) & Beaconsfield galleries’ The Mother of All Parties (www.beaconsfield.ltd.uk). Enda has played with the Holy Ghost Fathers, Miriam Ingram, and the Spook of the 13th Lock and has done audio production work for Somadrone, the Holy Ghost Fathers and Daniel Figgis.

Enda works as a part-time lecturer in the M.Phil. in Music & Media Technologies course in Trinity College and is currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Music with Donnacha Dennehy and Dr. Dermot Furlong. His particular area of interest is surround sound technology and contemporary music composition. The Quarterworks Series is a new collection of electro-acoustic music which reflects this interest, and can be found at www.fairlights.net. Enda has also recently joined with a number of other composers in the formation of the Spatial Music Collective (www.spatialmc.net), which aims to run various surround sound events around Dublin over the coming months.
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Brian Solon
Brian Solon is currently based in Naas, Co. Kildare.

In 2004 he received a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science from UCD and spent time developing multimodal interfaces at Media Lab Europe.

He completed the Music and Media Technologies course from Trinity College Dublin in 2006, where his thesis submitted in part fulfilment of the degree of M.Phil focussed on the development of a gesturally-controlled audiovisual synthesis instrument.

He has recently been a featured composer in the NODE series of concerts at Trinity College Dublin, and is a member of Dublin/Kildare-based rock group The Mes, who are currently writing and recording their debut album. Recent musical collaborations include a performance at Offside Live II in the Hugh Lane Gallery as part of trio 'Superposition' with Alex McMahon and David Lacey.

He also works as a freelance designer, and was recently involved with establishing the first Trinity Arts Festival which took place in February 2006.
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Fionnuala Conway
Fionnuala Conway is a musician and artist and has just completed her PhD at Trinity College, Dublin. Her thesis focuses on the creative use of art and technology in installation spaces to provoke thought and generate awareness of social issues. Fionnuala was responsible for the design and creation of the Art of Decision, a large-scale multimedia exhibition consisting of 9 interactive rooms, that was first seen in the Digital Hub warehouse in May 2006.

Fionnuala completed a Bachelor of Music at University College, Dublin in 1994 and an M.Phil. in Music and Media Technologies from Trinity College, Dublin in 1999. She is currently Course Director of the M.Phil. in Music and Media Technologies course.
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