During the SFMI masters course I got an introduction to many exciting areas of audio post-production.I particularly enjoyed working with Ambisonics and spatial sound installation. I graduated in 2024 and spent my first year freelancing as a sound editor and designer, earning credits on the feature film California Scheming (2025) and the TV series Summerwater (2025). From there, I moved into a dialogue editor role at Bigmouth Audio. Currently, I am working as a dialogue editor atRockstar North.
I also work with a collective of musicians and sound artists in Glasgow to host live communal listening events with spatial audio.
The MDes Sound for the Moving Image at Glasgow School of Art was a highly valuable experience that helped me develop both my creative and technical skills as an audio designer. The course offered a strong balance of artistic exploration and industry-focused practice, alongside access to excellent facilities, inspiring tutors, and a collaborative creative environment. The flexibility to tailor parts of the programme to personal interests, such as game audio, was particularly invaluable.
The course gave me the confidence, knowledge, and portfolio needed to progress my career in audio for games. Since graduating, I have been working at Frontier Developments as an Audio Designer, applying the skills and experience gained at Glasgow School of Art in a professional context.
My experience on the course was extremely fruitful. It opened up many possibilities for me and has shaped all the work I do today as an artist living from my practice and currently based in Berlin. I recall that when I first started the programme, I was afraid that I would not be able to"compose" because I came from a fine arts background. I was quite intimidated by the other students who had studied music or played in bands before. I feel very fortunate that Ronan encouraged me to look beyond these restrictions I had created in my mind and instead approach sound in a sculptural way, drawing on the strengths of my own practice.
The interdisciplinary nature of the programme gave me the confidence to develop a practice that moves fluidly between sound, performance, installation, and moving image. It encouraged me to think beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries and to approach sound and music as both a material and a method for artistic inquiry.
Since graduating, I have continued to apply the skills I developed during the course across a wide range of projects. I compose scores for film, theatre, audiowalks, and sound installations, and I perform live internationally. In 2024, I released my debut solo album, Beirut Birds, which I have since presented at festivals and venues across Europe. More recently, I have returned to my visual art practice, exploring its relationship to performance, the body, and the objects I use on stage.
My work engages with themes of migration, exile, and memory. My research is developed through the collection of interviews and field recordings, which shape the narratives of my ongoing interdisciplinary projects.
(Photo credit Lips#3 — Souffle festival and Camille D. Tonnerre)
I had a wonderful experience on the MDes Sound For The Moving Image course. I loved the opportunity to develop and learn the technical side of being a sound/music professional in Film/TV, understanding post production, using software etc but I also got a lot from the intellectual/theoretical side of the course and learned a lot of skills in how to contextualise, analyse and frame thoughts about sound that help me massively in my work today.
I also loved the collaborative nature of some of the projects and met some people I’m still really close to, which is really helpful in an industry where a support network is very important.
Since leaving the course, I’ve been working professionally as a film and television composer. Recent projects include ‘Nightsleeper’ (BBC) , ‘Grow’ (Sky), and ‘Coldwater’ (ITV). I take a lot of the skills I learned on the course forward into what I’m doing now.