Linda Buckley
Linda Buckley is an Irish composer who creates electronic and acoustic music, often in the realm of glitch, drone and dark ambient. Her NMC record From Ocean’s Floor was featured by Iggy Pop on BBC Radio 6 as “beautiful music – here is somebody really special”. Her work has been described as “sublime and brilliant” (BBC Radio 3), “engaging with an area of experience that new music is generally shy of, which, simplified and reduced to a single word, I’d call ecstasy” (Bob Gilmore, Journal of Music).
Linda has scored films by renowned Irish directors Pat Collins, Tadhg O’Sullivan and Clare Langan and has co-scored silent films with Irene Buckley – Nosferatu and Metropolis, as well as mixed media projects with the Liz Roche Dance Company and Doireann Ní Ghríofa. She has written extensively for orchestra (BBC Symphony Orchestra, RTÉ NSO) and was elected to Áosdana in 2021. Recent collaborations include new work for Liam Byrne and Crash Ensemble, Gudrun Gut (Einstürzende Neubauten), Andrew Zolinsky (for Dark Music Days, hcmf and New Music Dublin), film maker Mark Cousins and the score to Nothing Compares (co-composed with Irene Buckley), the award-winning film based on Sinéad O’Connor.