People
Dominic Gately
director, writer, performance, sound
Dominic is an actor, theatre-maker and writer. His performance work embraces devised site-specific fringe theatre, mainstream subsidised and commercial performance, television and radio. He creates work driven by shared human experience, rooted in a tradition of ensemble co-creation, collaborative by default. He is currently embarking on a long-term project to create impactful, research-informed performance works at the point where science and art converge. Works that could, in turn, feed into or inspire further research. This work relies on understanding and mediating the challenges that researchers find through applying creative methodologies. He believes that creative conversations between researchers and artists can result in both impactful art and a much broader, accessible dissemination of research: science made accessible not through a process of oversimplification, but through rich, creative interpretation.
Dominic is an Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health at the Global Brain Health Institute, which brings together a powerful mix of disciplines, professions, backgrounds, skills, perspectives, and approaches to develop new science-based solutions to improve brain health for populations across the world.
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James Hamilton
composer, musical performance, mix engineer, software development, additional sound
James is a Belfast born musician based in Yorkshire. For the past eighteen years he has worked as a composer, arranger, trumpet player and educator throughout the UK and beyond. After studying Jazz performance and an MA in composition, he began writing for his own award winning jazz orchestra and joined pioneering DIY indie band Hope and Social. He has taught in schools and colleges and lead workshops for both professional and community choirs and ensembles around the UK. He is a regular collaborator with theatre company Imitating the Dog and design studio Invisible Flock. His work sits at the intersection of music, technology, community and storytelling and has been recognised through various awards including a British Composers Award and an Ivor Novello nomination.
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Bea Schirmer
Bea Schirmer has spent all her working life playing and composing music. A double bass player with Manchester’s Hallé Orchestra, her creative work in music education takes place all over the UK and has won her the inaugural Salomon Prize, awarded by the Royal Philharmonic Society.
She also enjoys creating fused glass art. The ‘HemiHelix Effect’ is the name of her four book thriller series. She lives in the Peak District of Northern England.
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Tom Beer
Tom Beer took up the viola at the relatively late age of thirteen because of a love of the chamber music repertoire. Progressing quickly in his studies with Elizabeth Turnbull at Trinity College of Music he was fortunate enough to win several prizes for his playing both as a soloist, member of two string quartets and he also won the opportunity to perform a concerto with the college orchestra. After continuing his studies with the acclaimed British violist Roger Chase at Oberlin Conservatory in the United States, Tom returned to the UK where he worked extensively with broad range of ensembles including a guitar Quintet touring Brazil, the Ballet Rambert and major symphony orchestras before accepting a job in the Hallé Orchestra. After 8 happy years in Manchester (including a stint as a singer in a tango band), Tom headed back South to join the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra as Principal Viola. When not performing with the BSO he works with other ensembles such as the LSO or John Wilson orchestra. Tom loves learning languages, cross country running and travel.
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Debby Taylor-Woods
Debby Taylor-Woods is a lifelong music fan, Education and Welfare Adviser, and mum of two, who lost her hearing in her left ear following an ear infection whilst on holiday in Tokyo. Her hearing was replaced by tinnitus which is with her every waking moment. Nearly four years in, she’s still learning to adapt to the world as a single sided deaf person and doing her very best to ignore the constant noise her brain has created.
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Prof. Sven Vanneste
Sven is a neuroscientist and Professor of Psychology at Trinity College Dublin. He earned his Master’s in Psychology and Criminology at Ghent University and a Doctorate Degree in Medical Sciences at the University of Antwerp. Before he joined Trinity College Dublin, Sven was a Professor of Systems Neuroscience at the University of Texas, Dallas. He was awarded a Honorary Professorship at the University of Otago in New Zealand. Sven’s lab for Clinical & Integrative Neuroscience is undertaking ground-breaking research on the ageing-related neurological disorders.
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The Noise Begins was funded and supported, with generosity and tirelessness, by
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Thanks to
Rich Warburton
Gerard McBurney
Lois Boa and Simon Turner
Jen Yokoyama, Rob Whelan, Erin Smith, Tselmen Daria and Yared Zewde
Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience
Special thanks to
Dr Nicky Taylor
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Sunny, 2007 – 2021