Adam Melvin completed his PhD under Simon Bainbridge at the Academy where he was also Manson Fellow (2005-06). His music incorporates both acoustic and electronic forces and often seeks to interrogate the relationship between music, sound, site and the visual arts, particularly moving image.
His work has been performed throughout the UK and Ireland, mainland Europe, USA and Japan and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, RTÉ Radio 1 & Lyric FM (Ireland), Antenna 2 (Portugal) and WFMT, Chicago.
Notable projects include Fulgurite Chamber, a large-scale mixed-media piece for Rarescale (Arts Council of Ireland commission) and the sound installation, Monument, featuring the Juice vocal trio, exhibited at the Irish Science and Technology Association Festival, Derry (2016) and the Yoko Uhoda Gallery, Liège, Belgium (2018).
His writing, which investigates the relationship between music, sound and screen, has been published in The Soundtrack (Intellect), The Palgrave Handbook of Sound Design and Music in Screen Media and in Routledge’s Foundations in Sound Design series. Based in Donegal, Ireland he is a member of Dublin’s Spatial Music Collective and is represented by the Irish Contemporary Music Centre. He is lecturer in music at Ulster University’s Magee College, Derry, Northern Ireland.