AOIFE DEMILLE
Resume
Education
2014 - 19 Bachelors in Music, Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin.
Solo Exhibitions
2019 Boydell Recital Room, House 5, Trinity College Dublin, Interstices of Sound & Vision: Heterotopia Installation
Publications
2018 “Talking Heads: Lyrical Contribution.” Writings About Music Journal, Volume IV.
Honors and Awards
2019 Geoffrey Singleton Prize in Music, Trinity College Dublin Department of Music, 2019 for the best final project submitted in Music by candidate of sufficient merit.
2019 Stewart and Prout Prize in Music, Trinity College Dublin Department of Music, 2019 – founded in 1951, awarded annually for the best overall Senior Sophister final project
on the recommendation of the Department of Music.
2020 Covid-19 Response Award by Arts Council Ireland.
Music Bursary Round 2 by Arts Council Ireland.
Music Project Award by Arts Council Ireland (ISLO Collective).
2021 Agility Award Round 1 by Arts Council Ireland.
2022 Music Bursary Round 1 by Arts Council Ireland.
Performance
2015 Waiting To Happen EP – vocals for A Happy Accident, Co.Dublin.
Performed as a support act for Irish duo, Saint Sister, Carnegie Art’s Centre, Co. Kerry.
2016 Performed as part of the Trinity Winter Showcase in Powerscourt Theatre, Co.Dublin.
2017 Performed as part of a charity event hosted by DU Dance in Powerscourt Theatre,
Co.Dublin.
2019 Performed as part of the Draoi ensemble at Body & Soul Festival.
2019 Performed as part of the Draoi ensemble at Electric Picnic Festival.
2021 Light Moves Festival: Conducted two multimedia performances commissioned by the festival at the Hunt Museum and in People’s Park, Light Moves ‘Spiral’series
in conjunction with Dublin Modular, Co.Limerick.
2022 Performed as part of ambient electronic music event Still Space, Unit 44 Co.Dublin.
2022 Performed as support act for More Ease & Seth Graham at the Workman’s Cellar hosted by Foggy Notions.
Solo Projects
2018 Launched an interview series at Trinity College Dublin. Featuring a wide range of musicians, I conducted interviews with artists including Lisa Hannigan, Cigarettes After Sex, Girlband, Helena Wood, and Interference. This series gave recognition for each artist(s)’s outstanding contribution to music and the arts in Ireland.
2020 Released, ‘Forward & Back We Go’. Referencing Ireland, its landscape, culture, mythology, the piece engaged electronic and vocal sound design and improvisation,
and visual projection. Debut virtual immersive exhibition.
2022 Released, ‘Morning Fires’ as supported by the Arts Council Bursary Award.
Group Projects
2020 Co-founded, co-created, and launched a new online platform and artist collective titled the ISLO Collective. Originally acting as a virtual contemporary art museum featuring
emerging Irish artists during the Covid-19 pandemic, ISLO has formed into a multi-medium art collective and organization which will assist emerging artists of all
disciplines to create new media art projects and events in Dublin.
2022 Curated, composed, and produced sound for a debut exhibition as co-founder of the ISLO Collective in Studio 10.
As You Can Tell was an immersive audio-visual installation featuring the work of five Dublin artists, Lara Gallagher, Aoife DeMille, Becky Jones, Suibhne Durand, and Alana McDonough.This exhibition was supported by the Arts Council Ireland Music Project award.
Media
2021 Featured on Dublin Digital Radio as part of the “Dublin Modular Talks” series to discuss upcoming commission from Limerick Light Moves Festival and Dublin
Modular in September 2021.
Programmes & Residencies
2021 - 22 Taking part as one of five artists selected for the Project Intensive pilot programme with the Project Arts Centre.