Roger Doyle

Roger Doyle (Dublin, 17 July 1949) is an Irish composer whose career is associated above all with electroacoustic music, a field in which he has worked since the mid-1970s. His training took place in his native city and abroad, and his output reflects an interest in combining recorded sound with theatre and audiovisual media.

Doyle studied composition with A. J. Potter at the Royal Irish Academy of Music between 1968 and 1971, where he was awarded two composition scholarships. From 1974 to 1976 he studied at the Institute of Sonology in Utrecht, now based in The Hague, and also worked in electroacoustic studios in Helsinki. Around 1980 he premiered Rapid Eye Movements, a tape piece incorporating natural sounds, voices and radio fragments, which won a prize at the Bourges Festival in 1981. After performing with the group Operating Theatre from 1983 to 1989, he returned to composition with Charlotte Corday and the Lament of Louis XVI, a commission from the same festival.

His activity extended to musical theatre, in collaboration with the company IContact. Between 1990 and 1998 he worked on Babel, a large-scale work composed "room by room" that integrates music, dance, architecture, graphics and electronic media. His catalogue also includes music for the stage, film scores, and instrumental and vocal pieces, which makes Doyle a significant figure in Irish electroacoustic music of the late twentieth century.