Nick Roth is a saxophonist, composer, producer and educator.
His work seeks the liberation of improvisation from composition, the poetic syntax of philosophical enquiry, and the function of music as translative epistemology.
A curious predisposition and a steadfast refusal to accept the existence of boundaries between the real and the imaginary has led to collaborations with an array of performers, composers, choreographers, visual artists, poets, sculptors, directors, festivals and ensembles around the world.
Fascinated by emergent behaviour, his work is an investigation into how we can come to know through the art of music, in conversation with scientists from the fields of mathematical biology, astrophysics, forest canopy ecology, evolutionary genetics, high-frequency market trading, neuroscience, quantum loop gravity or hydrology.
Simultaneously subsumed by an insatiable appetite for literature, his compositions often interrogate the resonant symbiosis of language as sound and symbol.
He has served as artist-in-residence at institutions including the European Space Agency (ESTEC), California Academy of Sciences (CalAcademy), Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris (CCI), Porto's Casa da Arquitectura and the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA).
He is a founding member of the Yurodny Ensemble and The Water Project, artistic co-director of Unreal Cities, and a partner at Diatribe Records, Ireland's leading record label for new music.
His work is represented by the Contemporary Music Centre.
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