Roger's piece for LookListen is called Under the Green Time featuring Brian Ó hUiginn on Uilleann Pipes and Roger Doyle on Keyboards / Electronics. The title Under the Green Time is taken from the poem The Room of Rhetoric by Irish writer Sebastian Barry. This piece was composed in 1995 and consists of an uilleann pipe solo over electric typewriter samples that have been manipulated and pitched to the key of D which the instrument is most typically tuned to.

Roger Doyle was born in Dublin and studied composition on scholarships at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, the Institute of Sonology at the University of Utrecht and the Finnish Radio Experimental Music Studio. He has worked extensively in theatre, film and dance, in particular with the music-theatre company Operating Theatre, which he co-founded with actress Olwen Fouéré. Babel, his magnum opus, was begun in 1990 and had its first public showing in an entire wing of the Irish Museum of Modern Art in 1992 as a dance piece. Subsequent sections were composed during residencies at the University of Washington in Seattle, the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada, the EMS studios in Stockholm and at the Royal Conservatory of Music in The Hague.

Roger is also a lecturer in Electroacoustic Composition at Trinity College Dublin.

This recording has been provided by the Contemporary Music Centre from the 'Contemporary Music from Ireland, Volume Two' CD.

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'An image of Ireland without the sweet Celtic wrapping'.

Photograph © CMC