Ronan Breslin
Ronan Breslin
- Lecturer Sound for the Moving Image
- ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2782-7281- Job Title
- Lecturer Sound for the Moving Image
- School or Academic Area
- School of Innovation and Technology
- School or Academic Area Supervised for
- School of Innovation and Technology
- R.Breslin@gsa.ac.uk
- Professional Address
- School of Innovation & Technology, 65 West Regent Street, Glasgow G2 2AF
- Country
- United Kingdom
Biography
My research interests are currently focussed on the culture and technology of sound recording studios and the practice of popular music production. As the co-director of a commercial studio facility in Glasgow, I deploy an autoethnographic approach to my research which allows for credible interaction with other professional practitioners in the recording industry. I am also passionate about widening accessibility to music production and recording technology for disadvantaged groups.
Further recent research focusses on the use of 3D audio within VR/AR/XR technology for content creators, artists and film-makers and I have a delivered a number of conference papers and workshops in the field.
I am an established composer and sound mixer, with production credits including music for television network programmes, surround sound mixes for cinematic documentaries and immersive sound design for VR/AR experiences including the AHRC funded "Digital Laocoön" project and "Empire Retold: other voices from the British Empire Exhibition".
Research Interests
Technology and culture of sound recording studios, the practice of music production, music technology, 3D audio for AR/VR/XR.
Widening accessibility to music production.
PGR Supervision Interests
My current supervision interests are currently concerned with 3D audio for VR, XR, AR. I would also be interested in supervising students with an interest in music production, music for picture, recording technology and sound
Former PGR Students
PhD Supervision
Jessica Argo "Immersive Soundscapes to Elicit Anxiety in Exposure Therapy" (with Daniel Livingstone and Christoph Kayser)
Basil Al-Rawi "Recomposing the Archive: Remediating memories of Iraqi diaspora with personal archive photos, oral history, and Virtual Reality " (with Mathieu Poyade)
Alexander Horowitz "SoundTown : building accessible music-making experiences using videogame technologies" (with Daniel LIvingstone)
Leslie Deere "Action at a distance : reformatting the paradigm of spectatorship through virtual games and audio-visuals" (with Francis McKee, Marianne Greated. James Hutchison)
Teaching
I teach on the MDes Sound for the Moving Image and the BDes Sound for the Moving Image. The key areas of my teaching are production sound, post-production sound, sound design, music for picture, 3D audio, surround sound and audio-visual technology.
I also teach a cross-school postgraduate elective in Music for Picture Theory and Practice.
Latest Additions
- Archibald, David, Anderson, Robert, Breslin, Ronan, Ferrari, Mark, Maclean, Olivia, Martin, Therese and Whittle, Simon (2026) Public Sector Radio in Scotland: A View from The Tenementals. Other. Scottish Parliament.
- Breslin, Ronan (2025) "The Beyond and the Better Way" by The Gorgeous Pouting Mr AR.
- Jeffrey, Stuart, Trench, Jordan, Noble, Shona, Robertson, Bruce, Breslin, Ronan, May, Aaron, Bissell, Kate, Kibble-White, Jack, Ramsay, Samuel, Calderara, Stefania, Simpson, James, Halkett, Jonathan, Rawlinson, Alastair, Alexander, Derek, Jones, Sian, Rhodes, Daniel and Poller, Tessa (2019) Edinburgh Festival BBC Virtual Reality experience at Summerhall - Fingals's Cave 360 Video VR. Summerhall, Edinburgh, 19-23 August 2019
- Jönsson, Andreas, Breslin, Ronan and Ma, Minhua (2013) The Ambience Table: A Serious Gaming Interface for Aiding Sound Design. In: Serious Games Development and Applications. SGDA 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 8101 . Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 151-164. ISBN 9783642407895
