Roger Doyle is a musician who, with the music theater company Operating Theatre that he helped found, staged multimedia shows such as "Angel_babel" using customized real-time interactive sensor software. His body of work spans computer music, musique concrète and sampling music through to electro-acoustic pieces. He issued several CDs in the late '90s and released a five-disc summation on his 50th birthday; this is a selection drawn from the Babel series. From the radio and tape-collage opening onward, it's packed with his singular musicality and experimental spirit. A compilation from Allchival, the label bringing Irish and Dublin music such as Michael O'Shea, Stano and Operating Theatre to the world. Roger Doyle is a musician who, with the music theater company Operating Theatre that he helped found, staged multimedia shows such as "Angel_babel" using customized real-time interactive sensor software. His work ranges mainly from music and sampling music to electro-acoustic pieces. He issued several CDs in the late '90s and released a five-disc summation on his 50th birthday; this is a selection drawn from the Babel series. A compilation from Allchival, the label bringing Irish and Dublin music such as Michael O'Shea, Stano and Operating Theatre to the world.
Other Music Magazine assessed him as follows in February 2000: "Roger Doyle has for many years been Ireland's foremost exponent of musique concrète and experimental composition. His work as Operating Theatre, released on Steven Stapleton's United Dairies label in the late '70s and early '80s, is the stuff of legend. This astonishing set is the culmination of his most ambitious work to date, recorded over more than a decade. The first three CDs alone are the work of a true genius, combining the finest elements of Pierre Henry and Nurse With Wound." (Original Japanese text by Saito)