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The sound artist Linda O Keeffe has published a number of articles, essays and book chapters on the impact of sound in society, as well as developing a series of creative methodological approaches to exploring sound in urban and rural spaces.

The Irish Times Review of co-published article 'Reclaiming Public Space: Sound and Mobile Media Use by Teenagers'.

She has worked in sound and the arts since 2004, and has degrees in Fine Art, Media Technology and Art, Communications, and Sociology.

She is founder of the Women in Sound Women on Sound (WISWOS) organisation, "Women in Sound Women on Sound (WISWOS) is an international hub of networks and individuals, including artists, researchers, technologists, musicians, archivists and everything in between, with an interest in sound, technology and education. This network plays a pivotal role in supporting this interventionist activity".

She is Editor in Chief of the Interference Journal, a journal of auditory cultures, and was president of the Irish Sound, Science and Technology Association (ISSTA) from 2015 to 2017.

O Keeffe's artistic practice has included large scale exhibitions, her most recent as part of the Sounds Like Her touring exhibition curated by Christine Eyene, where she developed a new body of work Hybrid Soundscapes. Rachel Willcocks of the Leftlion stated that,

"A favourite piece for me was Linda O’Keeffe’s, Hybrid Soundscapes, which explores the impact of renewable technologies on the sonic environments of urban and rural spaces. The eerie sounds paired with artwork on the four surrounding walls makes for a powerful experience and highlights the effects of technology on our natural world".

Eyene has also curated Linda to develop a new piece for the Irish Biennale, EV&A, in 2016. She created the work My Voice is Still Lost. She has also developed a number of performance works, working with live coding, generative synthesis and granular synthesis. She was commissioned in 2017 to create a performance at the CentroCentro CIBELO Palace in Madrid Spain. For a list of her works click here to explore her website.

She has collaborated with the sound and performance artist Slavek Kwi AKA Artificial Memory Trace, releasing the albums CHOOLTD and Collaborations 2009-12.

As a sound designer she has worked in both theatre and dance, with commissioned works for Dance Theatre Ireland and as sound designer and composer for the production HIDDEN at the Horsefall space in Manchester in 2017. Her work for Dance Theatre Ireland was presented at the Prague Quadrennial in 2007, whilst the production HIDDEN was shortlisted for the Northern Soul Awards in 2017 for the Fringe Production of the Year.

Her contribution to the field of Graphic Composition has been written about by Theresa Sauer, who wrote the book Notations 21. Her practice increasingly features Graphic Scores and she has worked with numerous community groups around the world teaching sound mapping and graphic composition.