Tony Doyle

Lecturer in the area of Electronic Music, Spatial Audio Composition, and Music Technology

Tony.doyle@stonybrook.edu

With a foundational background in music and visual media, he brings a diversified skill set shaped by formal training as both a classical and jazz musician. His academic credentials include a Diploma in Jazz Performance and Composition, an MPhil in Music and Media Technology, and a PhD specialising in Spatial Audio Composition. Over the years, he has collaborated with an array of bands and musicians, spanning genres from pop to classical and contemporary performances, in both live and studio capacities. 

His teaching portfolio encompasses roles as a lecturer in various domains, such as music and sound for film, audio editing, sound design, live coding for performance, and spatial audio design and interaction. Technically, he is adept in a spectrum of software and coding languages, including but not limited to: computer music platforms such as Supercollider, SonicPi and ChucK. He is also proficient with ProTools, Logic, Cubase, Final Cut Pro, Adobe Illustrator, and Photoshop. He has also undertaken an in-person full-stack web development course covering the MERN stack (React, Node, Express, MongoDB), and languages such as Java, Javascript, Python, Swift and Ruby, all to support creative artistic outputs. 

Professionally, he has delved into diverse disciplines, crafting creative sonic and audio-visual outputs. He has  served as an audio mixing engineer for various artists, composed for theatrical productions, designed sound setups for theatre, and conceptualized spatial audio installations for visual and sound artists. Among his notable works, he engineered several sound art albums and collaborated with visual, game-based artists, and researchers to architect online interactive realms. These immersive spaces have more recently probed intricate subjects, such as the ethical considerations of gene editing in the context of climate adaptation.