Trancedance: Created at the Cyberdelic Society Hackathon in C-BASE, Berlin, November, 2025

We created Trancedance – an amazing Cyberdelic Music/Art experience at the Cyberdelic Society hackathon in C-BASE, Berlin in November, 2025. Our project incorporated holographic step sequencers, reatime audio effects processed from the microphone on the Quest 3 and passed to an external speaker, dancing aliens, sound orbs playing the words of Timothy Leary, live Traditional Irish Music played on the flute and artistic projections of my brain patterns captured on EEG:

Created by an international team using Godot and Touch Designer:

@skooter500
@sankar_viswanath
@paolaaaaa______
@bili.bala
@sodacream.studio
@vinay_4jan
@digitalan

Download on Itch and GitHub.


Quest: SDG – @ TU Dublin 2025 Student Inductions

Announcing Quest: SDG – a unique, immersive and magical holographic experience incorporating 3D maps, sounds and interactions – where users can learn about projects and activities across Technological University Dublin that support the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s).

Quest: SDG will be @ inductions across five TU Dublin campuses in September 2025, for incoming TU Dublin students to experience!

The project was developed using the Free and Open Source Godot Engine, by an international team of interns led by Dr Bryan Duggan from TU Dublin Computer Science, in partnership with the TU Dublin Sustainability Office.

Quest: SDG runs on specially modified headsets that provide full 180 degree FOV, so that virtual objects appear seamless with the real world. This offers an impactful and novel means of communicating and engaging with students about the SDG’s at the leading edge of Computer Science!

Tunepal @ Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy

What a joy to see so many people using Tunepal at Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy last week! It is the greatest happiness to me to see my software being used to learn Traditional Irish Music. Tunepal provides the music scores to over 24K traditional melodies in your pocket and can be searched by title or by playing a few notes from the tune. It has around 100K users and 60K tune searches every month! Its users are from every country in the world and Tunepal is beloved in the trad community. For my PhD in DIT in 2009, I developed the algorithms for matching live playing with music scores. It was such a useful invention, I released it as Tunepal and it has been growing in usage ever since. A true Irish and TU Dublin Computer Science success story!

Tunepal Nua to launch this summer!!

I am excited to announce that Tunepal Nua will launch this summer at Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy:

  • Every traditional music tune-book in your pocket, searchable by title, melody or audio query
  • Works offline forever!!
  • Keep track of tunes you want to learn in “My Tunes”
  • High quality playback and display of all the scores
  • AI powered transcription with support for a wide range of instruments
  • Import your own tune books in abc, and search them by playing!
  • Search audio from the Comhaltas Archive and other sources
  • Available on IOS, Android and Web
  • Quest 3 version – coming soon!
  • Created in Godot
  • FOSS

Watch the official announcement from GDC in San Francisco:

Two in a row for TU Dublin Computer Science and Godot!

Congratulations TU Dublin Computer Science students winning Best Game Made With a Games Engine, Best in Audio and third place in Robocode @ Games Fleadh 2025. Always great craic and hospitality in TUS Thurles and a brilliant experience for all the competitors and mentors. Proud to wear our Godó Gaedhleach merch! Two in a row for TU Dublin Comp Sci and Godot!

Gamecraft

We had great craic at Dublin Gamecraft on Saturday 16th February 2024 creating games, music and art, and eating pizzas. Me and my long-time collaborator and great friend Darren Fitzpatrick created a pass-through MR game where you use a slingshot to pop alien-shaped balloons created by a weird, golden musical instrument powered by a hand crank. We used FOSS: Godot, Blender, Audacity and XR Toolkit and got most of the mechanics working within the time and everyone got to try it out! Looking forward to polishing our game and releasing it in the coming days! Godot is honestly a fantastic tool for XR prototyping. Huge thanks to TU Dublin Computer Science for sponsoring lunch and the pizzas and TU Dublin Chaplaincy for providing a beautiful and historic setting to inspire us!

Tunepal: Past Present and Future

I was honoured to present a talk on Tunepal: Past Present and Future @ the No Borders festival in Brittany in December 2024. Honoured to present Tunepal and to experience the rich culture of Breton traditional music and dance with my new Breton friends. Grateful to Dastum for the invitation. Looking forward to future collaborations! Check out their website: https://www.dastum.bzh/

Link to my slides:

Tunepal Past Present and Future.pptx