Celsey McFadden

Celsey McFadden is a Galway-based composer, producer, guitarist and multimedia artist. He holds an Honours BA in Applied Music from DKIT and completed an MA in Composition and Creative Practice at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance in 2021, graduating with first class honours. He is now a PhD student there and occasionally tutors audio production to the MA students.

With UK producer Tim Clarke, he has composed and produced music for TV since 2010. Their music has been placed in advertisements and promos for brands and broadcasters including National Geographic, Sky News, Volvo, Comedy Central and CNN. It has also appeared on shows such as BBC's The One Show, Masterchef UK and Top Gear. His music has been played on Irish radio, including RTE 2FM and Lyric FM.

As a solo acoustic guitarist, Celsey plays everything from weddings to wine bars. His repertoire spans swing jazz, classical, popular classics, theme tunes and some Latin music. He specialised in contemporary solo performance at DKIT under Dublin jazz guitarist Hugh Buckley. He also plays in a guitar and violin duo, Les Troubadours, with Francis Moore-Colyer, and he teaches guitar.

His composition ranges from contemporary classical to glitchy techno. He wrote the soundtrack for the Irish film North Circular Road and released the electronica album TeaTronica as TeaTroniK on Diatribe Records in 2013. The audiovisual album The Fear (2023) blends electronica with acoustic instruments and experimental sounds. He is a member of the Irish Composers Collective.

Since 2019 he has focused more on visual art, working with AI-enhanced photography and video, AI-generated animation and style transfer. In 2024 Crash Ensemble commissioned him to create visuals for seven musical works, and the resulting Postcards was released on RTE Culture online in 2025 with funding from the Arts Council of Ireland. He describes his aim as finding the midpoint between the beauty of the natural world and the possibilities of fast-developing AI software.