Jason Patrick Murphy
Audio documentary maker and sound artist. Associate Professor at the American University in Bulgaria. Prix Italia, 2017.
Selected works
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2027
Upcoming · 3 February 2027
Between Notes
An immersive listening performance of live vinyl, field recordings and sound design.
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2026
Песента на Бистрица / Song of Bistritsa
A sound portrait of the river that runs past AUBG, recorded on foot from campus up to the Makedonia hut. Made with my Applied Audio class and premiered live for a full local audience.
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2026
Ovid on the Train
Experimental audio poetry on Ovid's exile to Tomis, with poet Oana Marian and sound designer Vera Arzumanyan.
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2023
Lake Voices African Soundscape
A soundscape of Rwanda in late 2022, recorded mostly on the shore of Lake Kivu by the Congo border and in the east near Tanzania. It ends with the songs of the night fishermen, who sing for bravery, strength and a safe return as they head out onto dark water.
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2023
Undefined
Sound design for Undefined, a new dance-theatre work by Andrea Williams, premiered at Dance Cork Firkin Crane.
Festival poster · 24 June -
2022
Selected work
Eulogy for a Sound at Sound Experiences
My lament for the Irish fog horn was selected for Sound Experiences, an international conference on memory, creativity and participation in sound, organised by the Audire project and CECS, the Communication and Society Research Centre.
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2022
From the Ukrainian border
Daily reports from the Polish–Ukrainian border in the first weeks of the full-scale invasion.
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2017
Prix Italia · NYF Gold · PPI Gold
No Time To Lose
Katie Cooke, a young Irish runner, lives with epilepsy and keeps racing long distance. Winner of the Prix Italia for Best Documentary.
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2016
NYF Gold · PPI Gold
Open Verdict
The life and death in Ireland of the young Iranian writer Marsha Mehran.
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2015
Simon Cumbers Media Fund
Malawi series
Reporting from Malawi on the UN Development Goals and what they mean for young people.
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2011
Eulogy for a Sound
A lament for the Irish fog horn. Presented at the Audire conference Sound Experiences, Braga, 2022.
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2022–
Mahala youth radio
Radio training for Roma young people from Blagoevgrad's Mahala, run with student research assistants.
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Route
- CorkUniversity College Cork, Bachelor of Commerce, 2002
- NewcastleMA, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2003
- LondonBBC Radio 4, then back to Ireland as a daily current affairs producer
- West ClareProducer, then manager of Raidió Corca Baiscinn, a community station with 14 staff and 50 volunteers, 2011–14
- Limerick · Cape TownPhD at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, with months reporting at Bush Radio in Cape Town, South Africa, 2014–18
- CorkSenior Lecturer in Journalism, Griffith College Cork, 2016–18
- Milan · TokyoPrix Italia, 2017; masterclasses for journalists at NHK, 2018
- BlagoevgradAmerican University in Bulgaria, from 2018
- CorkSound design for Undefined, Cork Midsummer Festival, 2023
Research
- Book · in progress Bulgarian radio through Radio AURA A history of Bulgarian broadcasting told through Radio AURA, drawing on archives and interviews with the people who built it.
- Article · 2021 Community Youth Radio in Rural Ireland With Kate Bluett. Online Journal of Communication and Media Technologies 11(3).
- PhD · 2018 Audio production in an international youth development setting A pedagogical study of youth radio in Ireland and South Africa. Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick.
- Talks RAI radio history, University of Rome, 2019 · Audire, Braga, 2022
- In preparation Practice-research articles On producing student audio for a public audience.
Teaching
I chose teaching over a career in industry because that is where my heart is. At AUBG I built the department's audio track, co-chair the Department of Journalism, Media and Communication, and have supervised 20+ capstone and independent studies.
- Applied AudioField recording to a live public show. The 2026 class made Song of Bistritsa.
- Sound EditingAudio editing for journalism students, who also ran the technical side of Lake Voices.
- Broadcast Producing · Digital StorytellingCurrent affairs audio class with a weekly show on Radio AURA.
- Before AUBGGriffith College Cork, Mary Immaculate College, and masterclasses for NHK in Tokyo.
About
I'm from Cork. I came to radio through community stations and current affairs, and I still make work for the airwaves: documentaries, reports, field recordings and pieces for live audiences. My documentaries have won the Prix Italia, two golds at the New York Festivals and two Irish radio awards for best documentary.
Most of what I make is about people at the edges, whether that's young people in West Clare, Roma teenagers in Blagoevgrad, or migrant fishermen at Lake Kivu in Central Africa. Lately it has turned towards listening itself: field recordings, installations and live work. Since 2018 I've lived in Bulgaria, teaching at the American University.
- 2017Prix Italia, Best Documentary · No Time To Lose
- 2017New York Festivals Gold · PPI Gold · No Time To Lose
- 2017New York Festivals Grand Jury
- 2016New York Festivals Gold · PPI Gold · Open Verdict
- 2016–17Prix Europa finalist ×2 · Rose d'Or finalist
- 2015Simon Cumbers Media Fund
- 2012PPI Newcomer of the Year
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