Mac Tire is a musician, performer, and researcher.
His work focuses on sound design, live electronics and multidisciplinary performances, with a strong interest in using water and instruments of his own design.
He describes himself as a water alchemist.
After obtaining a Bachelor of Arts in Music Performance and a Master’s degree in Music and New Technologies, he enrolled in a PhD in Performing, Staging Arts, Music and Compositions at ABANA.
His artistic research combines the sound and motion of water; starting from an observation of sea waves, his interest in using water as a sound source and core for his projects was born. Sampling and reshaping this natural element, combined with a curiosity for electronic design, led to the creation of Cariddi and (Ω)Scilla.
Cariddi is a gesture controlled whirlpool generator created to explore, through radical improvisation, the sonic unpredictability of the tides.
(Ω)Scilla is a dual water oscillator in which sound is manipulated using syringes. These syringes allow the user to control the level of immersion of the electrodes in water, thus varying the pitch or waveform of the oscillators..