Dr Claire Fitch
Biography
Dr Claire Fitch. FHEA., is a composer, cellist, author, and lecturer. Her award winning audio production company has worked with clients such as Intel, AMD, TG4, Adobe, Blender Institute, Riverdeep and Forfás, providing music, sound effects and dialogue, for games, advertising, theatre, film, radio, podcast and television. Claire’s sonic art output is inspired by electronic literature and game design, with performances on RTÉ Lyric FM and RTÉ Radio One; at conferences such as Irish Science Sound and Technology Association, Electronic Literature Organisation, and Kylie: The Symposium; and at festivals such as Music Current, HearSay, Hilltown, First Fortnight and SPIKE. Routledge published Sounding Emerging Media (Fitch 2022), with further output such as the AR Zine (RE)Verb presenting Vanguard Voices (Fitch, McErlean, Murray 2022), and Can’t Get You Out of My Web: Remixing Kylie as Digital Creative Practice (Fitch 2024) in O’Neill, S. and Pramaggiore, M. Kylie Minogue: Critical Insights into Music and Media Celebrity. Bloomsbury 2024. Claire was a member of the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra from 1995-2012 and is a Lecturer in Music at Dundalk Institute of Technology.
Teaching
BA (Hons) in Music and Performance Technologies
BA (Hons) in Audio and Music Production
BA (Hons) in Creative Media
BA (Hons) in Film and Television Production
Certificate in Sound Design and Implementation for Interactive Media
Qualifications & Awards
Qualifications:
- Ph.D. Sonic Art, Queen's University Belfast
- M.Mus. Improvisation, Dublin Institute of Technology
- Cert. Advanced Studies. Orchestral Cello, Royal Academy of Music
- B.A.(Hons) Music Performance, Birmingham Conservatoire
Awards and Membership:
- Advance HE: Fellowship
- European Commission: Quality Check Expert
- Arts Council: Peer Panel
- Creative Industries Award, Louth County Enterprise Board
- Contemporary Music Centre: Associate Membership
Training:
- National Forum Digital Badge in Universal Design for Teaching & Learning
- MA in Learning and Teaching (in Progress).
- Epigeum. Professional Skills for Research Leaders.
- AVID. Certified Instructor: Sibelius 101, 110.
- Epigeum. Supervising Doctoral Studies.
- Epigeum. Academic Integrity.
Research & Interests
Research interests include: Sound Design, Electroacoustic Composition, Electronic Literature, Interactive Media, Augmented Reality, Sonic Art and Improvisation. https://clairefitch.github.io/
Publications:
Hanlon, S., Fitch, C., Morris, P. An Exploratory Study on Gamification and Interactivity in VRET with 6DoF. (2025) International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Virtual & Augmented Reality Simulations (ICVARS). Birmingham, United Kingdom. pp. 136-144. doi: 10.1109/ICVARS66454.2025.11198751
Fitch, C. “Can't Get You Out Of My Web: Remixing Kylie as Digital Creative Practice”, in O’Neill, Stephen and Pramaggiore, Maria. Kylie Minogue: Critical Insights into Music and Media Celebrity. Bloomsbury Academic. 2024.
Fitch, C. Sounding Emerging Media. London and New York. Routledge. 2022. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003046561
Fitch, C. “Folding, Unfolding, Refolding Sound”, in O’Sullivan, James. Digital Art in Ireland: New Media and Irish Artistic Practice. London and New York: Anthem Press. 2021.
Fitch, C. The Unfolding of Sound: A Portfolio of Works. Ph.D. Queen’s University Belfast. 2019
Arts Practice:
Copperwhite, D., Fitch, C. “Happening”. Improvisation for cello and artist, in Onomatopoeia, The Printworks, Galway Arts Festival, Galway. 2023.
Fitch, C. “Now”. Improvisation for cello and electronics, in Some Shapes of Time, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda. 2022.
Fitch, C., McErlean, K., Murray, M. Vanguard Voices. Augmented Reality Text. Gesso. RE(VERB). 2021.
Fitch, C. “Becoming Imperceptible”. Electroacoustic fixed media, podcast, in Hegarty, B. Where Are We Now?, Droichead Arts Centre and thirtythree-45. 2021.
Fitch, C. Ear For The Surge. Transmedia Text (Twitter, Twitch, Instagram, YouTube, Wordpress, SoundCloud). Electronic Literature Organisation Conference. University of Bergen. 2021.
Fitch, C. Mrs McNamara and Mrs Matchwell. Transmedia Text (Twitter, YouTube, SoundCloud), in Clarke, B. Scribbledehobble, Museum of Literature Ireland. 2020.
Fitch, C. Populated Solitude. Transmedia Text (Poster, Twitter, YouTube, SoundCloud), in Hegarty, B. Connection 3, Droichead Arts Centre. 2020.
Fitch, C., McErlean, K. SFBookDraft1. Photosonic Text (YouTube, Flikr, SoundCloud, WordPress, Instagram). Electronic Literature Organisation Conference. University of Central Florida. 2020.
Fitch, C. Tale Of A Great Sham(e)Text. Transmedia Text (Twitter, SoundCloud, YouTube, WordPress). Electronic Literature Organisation Conference. University College Cork. 2019.
Fitch, C. Can’t Get You Out of My Web. Transmedia Text (Twitter, WordPress, YouTube, SoundCloud). Kylie: The Symposium. Maynooth University. 2019.
Fitch, C. Questioning The Elements. Electroacoustic fixed media, animated score. Instrumentation: Cellos. SPIKE Alternative Cello Festival, Dublin. 2019. Arena, RTÉ
Publications
The publications listed below represent my 10 most recent works as recorded on ORCiD
2025 International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Virtual & Augmented Reality Simulations (ICVARS)
25 July 2025
DOI: 10.1109/icvars66454.2025.11198751
Type: Conference paper
Kylie Minogue: Critical Insights into Music and Media Celebrity
November 2024
Type: Book chapter
Routledge
14 April 2022
DOI: 10.4324/9781003046561
Type: Book
(RE)Verb
3 February 2022
Type: magazine-article
Digital Art in Ireland: New Media and Irish Artistic Practice
1 August 2021
Type: Book chapter
Where Are We Now? (Curated) Hegarty, Brian. Drogheda: Droichead Arts and Thirtythree-45.
7 July 2021
Type: artistic-performance
Electronic Literature Organization Conference. Bergen: University of Bergen.
24 May 2021
Type: conference-abstract
Digital Art In Ireland: New Media and Irish Artistic Practice. (Edited) O'Sullivan, James. Anthem Press.
1 May 2021
Type: Book chapter
Connection 3. (Curated) Hegarty, Brian. Drogheda: Droichead Arts.
18 September 2020
Type: artistic-performance
Scribbledehobble. (Curated) Clarke, Bernard. Dublin: Museum Of Literature Ireland.
9 September 2020
Type: artistic-performance