Academic leadership and faculty

Senior Lecturer, Music
MA Fine Arts, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
MA Media Arts and Technology, Electronic Music & Sound Design,
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Certificate in Electroacoustic Composition, Les Ateliers UPIC, Alfortville, France
BFA Sound & Video, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA

Brian O'Reilly is Senior Lecturer in Electronic Music, working within the fields of electroacoustic composition, sound installations, moving images and noise music. He is also a contrabassist focusing on uncovering the inaudible textures and hidden acoustic microsounds of his instrument by integrating electronic treatments and extended playing techniques.

O’Reilly’s formative education took place at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he studied sonic art, kinetic sculpture, and analogue video synthesis, most notably in Sound and Video department using the Sandin Image Processor. His parallel interests in improvisation, composition and synthesis informed a distinctive interdisciplinary approach.

In the late 1990s, he relocated to Paris to undertake research into the graphic sound synthesis methods of composer and architect Iannis Xenakis, working extensively with the UPIC system. During this period, he was appointed musical assistant at Les Ateliers UPIC, collaborating closely with pioneering figures such as Luc Ferrari on his Cycle Des Souvenirs and Eliane Radigue’s L'Ile Re-sonante.

He later pursued graduate studies in electronic music composition at the Media Arts and Technology program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. There, he began his long-standing collaboration with Curtis Roads, contributing to the seminal project Point Line Cloud, recipient of an Award of Distinction at Ars Electronica in 2002. Following this, he joined Recombinant Media Labs in San Francisco as operations manager, contributing to projects with the Asphodel record label and further expanding his reach within experimental media.

His Masters in Arts Fine Arts titled Excavation Index set out to build an “archive of forms” by repeatedly layering, eroding, and reworking mixed-media drawings so that buried marks re-emerge as new strata. Originally conceived as an interconnected ecosystem, an “index of directives” in which each generative stage informs the next. The project treated every addition or abrasion as data that reshapes subsequent arrangements, gradually exposing the gestural history embedded in the work. In parallel, these excavated images have converged with his long-standing use of graphic musical notation: shifting visual elements now operate as a score that both shapes and responds to sound. By decoding and reordering entire archives of drawings rather than single notational sheets, the process forged a flexible visual/sonic language.

His work has been supported through international residencies and commissions at institutions and festivals such as Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM, Germany); SH Festival (Shanghai); KLEX - Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film, LUFF - Lausanne Underground Film, Mozarteumm (Salzburg), Ionian University (Corfu), All Tomorrow’s Parties (curated by Autechre, UK), and Signal Culture (New York) amongst others.

At LASALLE, O’Reilly lectures on electronic music history, composition, and performance while pursuing research into electronic music practice, visual music and creative music-making techniques through improvisation. His artistic output spans solo audiovisual works, mixed media drawings, music for films, modular synth and live video performances with the group Black Zenith, as well as contrabass and electronics contributions to the noise-jazz ensemble Game of Patience.

Academic leadership and faculty

Programme Leaders

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Alan P Rudge

Andreas Schlegel

Audrey Wong

Dayal Gian Singh

Dr Diego Celi

Dr Ronald P.M.H. Lay, MA, AThS-HF, AThR, ATR-BC

Dr Emilio Molina

Erzan Adam

Dr Francis Maravillas

Ginette Chittick

Hazel Lim-Schlegel

Dr Ian Woo

Dr Indra Selvarajah

Jay Loo Dexian

Jaygo Bloom

Jeffrey Say

Joselyn Sim

Justin Hegburg

Kathryn Shannon Sim

Khalid Almkhlaafy

Matt Grey

Michael Budmani

Dr Natalia Grincheva

Nathan Yong

Dr Rosslyn Prosser

Dr Subashini K Rajanthran

Victoria Elizabeth Ho

Wendy Chua

Associate Professor Woo Yen Yen

Senior Lecturers

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Adeline Kueh

Brian O’Reilly

Dr Darren Moore

Dirk Johan Stromberg

Hideho Urata

Jeremy Sharma

Kelley Cheng

Dr S Chandrasekaran

Salleh Japar

Urich Lau Wai-Yuen

Lecturers

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Aloysius Foong

Alvin Chiam

Ang Qing Sheng

Dr Aprille Chua Jia Qi

Chen Chin Tyng

Chris Yee

Christina Low Yung Chyuan

Dr Damaris D E Carlisle

Daniela Monasterios Tan

David Lee Siew Bing

Edmund Chia

Emylia Safian

Eta Lauw

Eugene Lee

Fanny Bratahalim

Dr Gan Sheuo Hui

Goh Hiro Toshi

Hera

Hillary Yeo

Janet Teoh

Jason Vitorillo

Jessica Olivia Chua

Dr Joel Gn

Dr Leela Alaniz

Lidya Chrisfens

Lim Shu Min

Lim Teng Hong

Dr Mardhiah Osman

Michael Charles Daniel Rezandi

Michelle Loh

Muhammad Fairul Azreen Bin Mohd Zahid

Nadia Oh Sueh Peng

Nicholas Ooi Wei Siong

Dr Nicholas Teo