Biography
Robin Parmar explores the phenomenology of place and the poetics of memory using non-narrative film, generative installations, environmental composition, photography, and text. Interests include psychoacoustics, visual music, field recording, audio synthesis, radiophonics, music production, and epistemologies of nature. He has released eleven albums, on Silent Records (USA), Gruenrekorder (Germany), and his own Stolen Mirror (Ireland). The psychoacoustic sound piece 'Music for Glaciers' debuted on Culture Night 2019. His film 'The Swerve' premiéred at Light Moves: Festival of Screendance 2018. Awards include the Invisible Places residency (The Azores, 2017) and an Arts Council Bursary (2017). Robin has a doctorate in Sonic Creativity from De Montfort University (Leicester, UK) and is Lecturer in Video, Film, and Visual Communication at the University of Limerick (Ireland). He is Vice-President of the Irish Science, Sound, and Technology Association (ISSTA) and is on the board of Interference: Journal of Audio Culture. Visit robinparmar.com and stolenmirror.com.
Research Interests
soundscape studiessound artelectroacoustic musicepistemologies of naturepost-punk music
