Sound design
Sonic worlds for theatre, dance and performance — built around story, space and the live moment.
Independent sound practiceDublin · Ireland
Eóin Murphy
Sound Designer · Music Producer · Composer · Live Sound Engineer
Stage — Screen — Studio — Performance
About Eóin
Every Room
Resonates
Eóin is a music producer, sound designer, musician and live engineer with more than twenty years’ experience across Irish music and theatre.
His work moves between the intimacy of a recording studio and the scale of a live performance: listening for the character of a voice, the energy of a room and the precise moment sound becomes narrative.
Based in Dublin, Eóin runs Big Garden Recording and collaborates with artists, companies and venues on music, theatre, dance and hybrid performance.
The practice
Music production
Recording, arranging, mixing and producing artists from first take to finished record at Big Garden Recording.
Composition
Original music and sound-led collaboration for stage, screen and projects that resist easy categories.
Live sound
Detailed, musical engineering for concerts, touring productions and ambitious contemporary performance.
Selected work
Recent theatre work sits beside two decades of live music, recording and collaboration.
2025
Good Sex
Audio Engineer
Powerhouse Arts · Brooklyn 2025FLIES
Sound Engineer
The Ark 2025Reverb
Sound Engineer
Luail 2023Hothouse
Associate Sound Designer · Sound Engineer
Project Arts Centre 2023Quake
Sound Engineer
Dublin Theatre Festival 2002—12Mermaid 10
Live recording · Mix · Production
Mermaid Arts CentreBrooklyn / 2025
GOOD SEX
Dead Centre at Powerhouse Arts
Eóin was audio engineer for the Brooklyn run of Dead Centre’s acclaimed, ever-changing live experiment in intimacy and performance.
The New York Times covered the production during its Brooklyn run, exploring the show’s unusual process and the live craft behind each performance.
Good Sex / Powerhouse: International / Brooklyn
Big Garden Recording
Studio productions, live recordings and Eóin’s own music — a wide archive of artists, rooms and moments preserved in sound.
Explore the full SoundCloud archiveBig Garden AudioSelected recordings
Play on Bandcamp Archive note / 2012
MERMAID 10
An eclectic document from ten years of live music at Mermaid Arts Centre.
Recorded live and mixed by Eóin; produced by Eóin and Mermaid Arts Centre. Featuring Roger Doyle, Niwel Tsumbu, Vyvienne Long, Redmond O’Toole and more.
From the room
PHOTO ALBUM
Productions, performances and the people behind the work.
