Matthew Noone

Matthew Noone is an Australian-Irish ex-indie rocker, improviser, composer, artist-scholar and performer of the 25 stringed Indian sarode. After beginning his musical career as a guitarist and drummer in Brisbane in the mid 90s, Matthew fell in love with the sarode during a trip to India in 2003. He has studied North Indian Classical music for two decades with Sougata Roy Chowdhury in Kolkata and with UK based sarodiya, K. Sridhar. He performs Indian classical music across the globe and composes in a diverse range of disciplines ranging from Irish traditional music, free improvisation and contemporary electroacoustic music.

Matthew is also an Irish Research Council scholar and was awarded a PhD for his work exploring the performance of Irish music and completed a postdoctoral fellowship investigating electroacoustic music improvisation. His research interests include cultural hybridity, phenomenology, consciousness and deep ecology. He is the Course Director of the BA in World Music at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick.