I am currently a lecturer and deputy director of the Music and Media Technology Programme at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, and I conduct research as part of the Spatial Audio Research Group in Computational and Media Engineering.

My PhD thesis (2010), supervised by Donnacha Dennehy and Dr, Dermot Furlong, examined the composition and performance of spatial music, particularly in terms of the less than ideal conditions ofen encountered during live performances.

Research interests include;

 
The Augmented Electric Guitar Spatial Audio Players  
     
     
SpaceMap-Unmasking s  
SpaceMaps Spatial Audio Synthesis  
     
 
Spatial Hearing Flocking Algorithms  
     
 
The Composition & Performance of Spatial Music Speech Synthesis & Spoken Mathematics  
     
sax quintet  
Spatial Music, VR & 360 Video Acoustic & Electroacoustic Composition  

 

 

Publications, Guest-Lectures & Workshops

2019
Recording & Composing Site-Specific Spatial Music for 360 Video
- Bates, Enda; Csadi, Sebastian; O'Dwyer, Hugh; Ferguson, Luke; Boland, Francis M.
- AES 146th Convention, Dublin, Ireland, March 2019.
 
A Study in Machine Learning Applications for Sound Source Localisation with Regards to Distance
- O'Dwyer, Hugh; Csadi, Sebastian; Bates, Enda; Boland, Francis M.
- AES 146th Convention, Dublin, Ireland, March 2019.
 
Workshop on Spatial Audio for Contemporary Music and Theatre
- Bates, Enda; Eadie, Jimmy; Kang, Ji Youn; Mulvey, Gráinne; Dowling, Fergal; Nealon, Alexis
- AES 146th Convention, Dublin, Ireland, March 2019.
 
Direct to Reverberant Ratio Measurements in Small and Mid-sized Rooms
- Csadi, Sebastian; Boland, Francis M.; Ferguson, Luke; O'Dwyer, Hugh; & Bates, Enda
- AES International Conference on Immersive and Interactive Audio, Youk, UK, March, 2019
 
 
2018
Samuel Beckett in Virtual Reality: Exploring narrative using free viewpoint video
- O’Dwyer, Néill; Johnson, Nicholas; Bates, Enda; Pagés, Rafael; Amplianitis, Konstantinos; Monaghan, David; Smolic, Aljoša
- The MIT Press Journals - Leonardo, pp. 10, 2018.
 
Practical Ambisonics
- Enda Bates
- The Journal of the Wildlife Recording Society, Vol. 14, No 4, 2018.
 
Beckett in VR: Exploring Narrative Using Free Viewpoint Video
- O'Dwyer, Neill & Johnson, Nicholas & Pagés, Rafael & Ondrej, Jan & Amplianitis, Konstantinos & Bates, Enda & Monaghan, David & Smolic, Aljoscha
- Siggraph 2018, Vancouver, Canada, August 2018.
 
A Recording Technique for 6 Degrees of Freedom VR
- Enda Bates, Hugh O'Dwyer, ; Karl-Philipp Flachsbarth, Francis M. Boland
‐ AES 144th Convention, Milan, Italy, May 2018.
 
A Machine Learning Approach to Detecting Sound-Source Elevation in Adverse Environments
- Hugh O'Dwyer, Enda Bates, Francis M. Boland
‐ AES 144th Convention, Milan, Italy, May 2018.
 
Spatial Audio and VR
- Enda Bates
- Immersive Stories Conference, Dublin International Film Festival, Mansion House, Dublin, Feb 24-25th, 2018.
 
An Introduction to Ambisonics / Comparing Ambisonic Microphones
- Enda Bates
- The Journal of the Wildlife Recording Society, Vol. 14, No 3, 2018.
 
What's That Sound
- Enda Bates
- RTE Brainstorm, www.rte.ie/eile/brainstorm, Feb. 21st, 2018
 
 
2017
Virtual Play in Free-viewpoint Video: Reinterpreting Samuel Beckett for Virtual Reality
Bates, Enda; Johnson, Nicholas; Smolic, Aljosa
VR Meetup, Filmbase, Templebar, Dublin. Dec 18th, 2017.
 
Technological Innovation, New Media, and the Arts
- Enda Bates
- MIDAS Ireland Conference, Clayton Hotel, Ballsbridge, Dublin. Nov 30th, 2017.
 
The Spatial Composer as Illusionist
- Enda Bates
- Sounding out the Space Conference, DIT Grangegorman, Dublin, 2-4th November, 2017.
 
Virtual Play in Free-viewpoint Video: Reinterpreting Samuel Beckett for Virtual Reality
- O’Dwyer, Néill; Johnson, Nicholas; Bates, Enda; Pagés, Rafael; Ondrej, Jan; Amplianitis, Konstantinos; Monaghan, David; Smolic, Aljosa
- 16th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), pp. 262-267, IEEE Xplore digital library, 2017.
 
Beckett in Virtual Reality
Bates, Enda; Johnson, Nicholas; Smolic, Aljosa
Intermedial Beckett Symposium, Dublin Theatre Festival, Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin, October 14th, 2017.
 
Spatial Audio for VR Workshop
- Enda Bates / Augustine Leudar
- Queen Mary University, London, 1st September, 2017.
 
Comparing Ambisonic Microphones – Part 2
- Enda Bates, Sean Dooney, Marcin Gorzel, Hugh O’Dwyer, Luke Ferguson and Francis M. Boland
‐AES 142nd Convention, Berlin, Germany, May 2017.
 
Capturing Sound for 360VR
- Hyunkook Lee, Enda Bates, Gavin Kearney, Henrik Oppermann, Tom Parnell, Ulli Scuda
- AES 142nd Convention, Berlin, Germany, May 2017.
 
Capturing and Rendering Audio for VR
- Hyunkook Lee, Enda Bates, Gavin Kearney, Tom Parnell
- AES UK North, University of Huddersfield, 25th March, 2017.
 
The Spatial Composer as Illusionist
- Enda Bates
- Open Circuit Festival, Victoria Gallery, Liverpool, 27th March, 2017
 
Spatial Audio for VR Workshop
- Enda Bates / Augustine Leudar / Spatial Music Collective / Festival ESMAE 2017
- Teatro Helena Sá e Costa, Porto, Portugal, March 23rd, 2017.
 
 
2016
Spatial Music, Virtual Reality, & 360 Media
- Enda Bates, & Frank Boland
- AES Conference on Audio for Virtual and Augmented Reality, Los Angeles, USA, Sep/Oct 2016.
 
Virtual Headphone Testing for Spatial Audio
- Hugh O'Dwyer, Marcin Gorzel, Luke Ferguson, Enda Bates, & Frank Boland
- Interactive Audio Systems Symposium, University of York, September 2016.
 
Composing and Producing Spatial Music for Virtual Reality and 360 Media
- Enda Bates
- ISSTA International Festival and Conference on Sound in the Arts, Science and Technology, Ulster University, September, 2016.
 
Spatial Music Masterclass
- Enda Bates / Spatial Music Collective / Association of Irish Composers
- Unit 4, James Joyce St, Dublin, July 30th, 2016.
 
Comparing Ambisonic Microphones – Part 1
- Enda Bates, Frank Boland, Marcin Gorzel, Hugh O’Dwyer, Luke Ferguson
- AES International Conference on Soundfield Control, Guildford, UK, July 2016.
 
Introducing Trinity 360
- Enda Bates
- Music at Trinity Lecture Series, Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin, March, 2016
 
Space Mapping
- Enda Bates
- [HE]Arts of Stem Festival, Ulster University, Derry, 25th Feb, 2016.
 
 
2015
SpaceMaps, Manifolds and a New Interface Paradigm for Spatial Music Performance
- Enda Bates
- BEAST FEaST 2015, University of Birmingham, 30 April – 2 May, 2015
 
 
2014
Before and after Kontakte: Developments and Changes in Stockhausen’s Approach to Spatial Music in the 1960s and 70s
- Enda Bates
- Compositions for Space: Electro-acoustic Music and its Contexts, TU Berlin, July 2014
 
 
2013
Cork International Choral Festival Seminar on New Choral Music
- Enda Bates, Paul Hillier, National Chamber Choir of Ireland
- Cork International Choral Festival, Stack Theatre, CIT Cork School of Music, May 2013
 
The How, What and Why of Spatial Music
- Enda Bates
- Stevens Institiute, Hoboken, NJ 07030, United States, April 19th, 2013
 
Harmonic Shake: Augmenting the Electric Guitar
- Enda Bates
- New Music Dublin Festival Creative Lab, National Concert Hall, Dublin, March 2013
 
 
2012
Symposium: Irish Modern Music
- Enda Bates, Roger Doyle, Brian Bridges, Hugh O'Neil
- Dulwich College, Shunyi, Beijing, P. R. China, March 2012
 
 
2010
Designing Auditory Cues to Enhance Spoken Mathematics for Visually Impaired Users
- Emma Murphy, Enda Bates, Dónal Fitzpatrick
- 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, Orlando, Florida, USA, October,  2010.
 
Sound Swarm (interactive spatial music installation)
- Enda Bates
- Dublin Culture Night, the Contemporary Music Centre, September, 2010.
 
Remote Hearing (binaural installation and spatial music presentation)
- Enda Bates
- Biorhythm: The Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin, July-October, 2010
 
Spoken Mathematics using Prosody, Earcons and Spearcons
- Enda Bates and Donal Fitzpatrick
- 12th ICCHP Conferance, Vienna, July, 2010
 
The Perception of Spatial Music in a Performance Context
- Enda Bates
- Annual Conference of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, University of Ulster, Derry, May, 2010.
 
 
2009
Spatial Music Production using Ambisonics (workshop/lecture presentation)
- Enda Bates

- Dublin Electronic Arts Festival, National Concert Hall, Dublin, October, 2009.

 
How Can Electronic Music Live On? (seminar/lecture presentation)
- Enda Bates, Anne La Berge, Christina Viola Oorebeek, Hannah Bosman & Davo van Peursen.
- Gaudemaus Music Week. Muziek Centrum Nederland, Amsterdam, September, 2009.
 
Score File Generators for Boids Based Granular Synthesis in Csound
- Enda Bates and Dermot Furlong
- 126th AES Convention, Munich, May 2009.
 
 
2008
Adapting Polyphonic Pickup Technology for Spatial Music Performance
- Enda Bates, Dermot Furlong and Donnacha Dennehy
- International Computer Music Conference, S.A.R.C. Belfast, August 2008.
 
Spatial Music Performance with the Hexaphonic Guitar
- Enda Bates, Dermot Furlong and Donnacha Dennehy
- Lewis Glucksman Memorial Symposium, Long Room Hub, June 2008.
 
 
2007
Localization Accuracy of Advanced Spatialization Techniques in Small Concert Halls
- Enda Bates, Gavin Kearney, Dermot Furlong and Frank Boland
- 153rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, June 2007
 
Monophonic Source Localization for a Distributed Audience in a Small Concert Hall
- Enda Bates, Gavin Kearney, Dermot Furlong and Frank Boland
- Proc. of the 10th Int. Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-07), Bordeaux, France, September 10-15, 2007
 
A Comparative Study of the Performance of Spatialization Techniques for a Distributed Audience in a Concert Hall Environment
- Gavin Kearney, Enda Bates, Frank Boland, and Dermot Furlong
- 31st International Conference of the Audio Engineering Society (2007)
 
Source Localisation Mapping using Weighted Interaural Cross-Correlation
- Gavin Kearney, Damien Kelly, Enda Bates, Frank Boland and Dermot Furlong
- Proc. of the Irish Signals and Systems Conference, September 2007
 
 
2004
Composing, Perceiving and Developing Real-time Granulation with Surround Sound
- Enda Bates
- Master's Thesis, Trinity College Dublin.