Alex Dowling is an award-winning Irish composer and producer. His current work involves repurposing autotune and other vocal effects to create strange and otherworldly extensions of the voice.
Recent projects include a commission from Irish National Opera to create a work for boy soprano as part of their 20 Shots of Opera project and a theatrical collaboration for the show ‘There’ at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. His album of electronic vocal works, Reality Rounds , was released in January 2020 on Carrier Records and is described as “an enthralling trance of live-processed vocals and synthesizers" (The Road to Sound). His music has been performed by ensembles internationally including the Iri
Dowling was recently named a MacDowell Fellow and an artist-in-residence at the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming. Awards include the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, Jerome Hynes Composer Award, and the West Cork Chamber Music Composition Award. He has an MPhil in Music & Media Technology from Trinity College, Dublin and studied composition as a PhD fellow at Princeton University. He is currently the 2023-2024 composer-in-residence with Irish National Opera as part of their INO Studio. Upcoming projects