NIMF

COMPOSER
SOUND DESIGNER
RESEARCHER
PERFORMER

NIMF (Aoibhín Redmond) is an Irish composer, sound designer, researcher, and performer. In 2022, she was selected by Keychange as an artist and future leader in the music industry.NIMF explores the concept of the uncanny and horror in music and audiovisual mediums.Completed an M.Phil in Music & Media Technologies at Trinity College Dublin, completing courses such as psychoacoustics, electroacoustic music, composition, visual music, programming, audio engineering, with a final audiovisual project and thesis exhibited at The Science Gallery in Dublin, and performed at the Moon's Milk Exhibition by Dolorosa de la Cruz at Gallery X, Dublin. It was presented as part of a Guest Lecture given by Redmond at the Royal Irish Academy of Music.

SIRENOSCAPE

Out March 6th 2026
A collaborative release between Cursed Monk Records, Fiadh Productions & Camellia Sinensis Records

QUOTES

"The depth with which these scenes have been established is highly impressive in itself, but they’re really just the record’s framework. Instead of static aural landscapes, NIMF’s hallucinatory music is heavily layered and constantly shifting in tone and timbre, meaning that it teems and lives and breathes – sometimes to the extent that it frays at temporal and diegetic edges. If folk music done well can put past, present and future on equal footing, here is an artist who revels in blurring the boundaries between those states."
THE QUIETUS
"Haunting dark ambient that creates entire enchanted worlds in its vastly expanding layers of synth and atmospherics."
BANDCAMP, NEW & NOTABLE FEATURE
"Deep and atmospheric."
STEVEN STAPLETON, NURSE WITH WOUND
"Hallucinatory album with unusual atmosphere; a strange work!”
COLIN POTTER, FOUNDER INTEGRATED CIRCUIT RECORDS, FREQUENT MEMBER & ENGINEER NURSE WITH WOUND, CURRENT 93, ORA, ORGANUM
"Sirenoscape is an invocative séance on the distant shores of some long-dead sea. Full worlds emerge from each of NIMF’s compositions; ritualistic echoes resonate, cyclical, ever-repeating, somehow comforting in their desolation. Sirenoscape is an album of presence(s). There are mysteries in these soundscapes reminiscent of literature’s most disconcerting weird tales. Listen in the small hours."
BRIAN J. SHOWERS OF SWAN RIVER PRESS
"An extraordinary piece of music"
DAN HEGARTY, THE ALTERNATIVE RTÉ2FM
“Listening to Sirenoscape, I find myself completely and willingly immersed, it’s an absorbing and incredible piece of work. I particularly love the deconstruction of the folk elements, like ‘Willie O’Winsbury’, how they appear and then dissipate within the darker landscapes like ghosts — there’s a primal, ritualistic quality that conjures up a wealth of imagery. Indeed, the album is highly visual as a whole, descriptive and transportive — it takes me to many different (haunted) places. The otherworldly ‘Echoed as a Rhythm Against Reality’ is a personal favourite, very Arthur Machen.”
GREY MALKIN, THE HARE AND THE MOON
"An expanse of vision in sweetest song lures the listener to her shores, the birds soaring above and crying aloud, a witness to the procession of that more dreadful sacrifice wherein the wicker man does bow his head all ablaze before the setting summer sun. He too was helpless, dragged down with a gravity as inexorable as fate, to the black and living earth of the land. And with a vivid vibrancy, these songs also are evocations of the elements, where a heightened glimpse of nature suddenly slips with a stray step into the Otherworld, across evermore and throughout time. There are many such shifts to be found here, in darkly psychedelic twists which draw inward even deeper, as folk melody and marching rhythm merge and melt deliciously, ultimately to envelop utterly in the uncanny. This is magical music, and there are sublime secrets in these songs. Lose yourself in their splendidly haunted caverns."
BRIAN CONNIFFE, BC ORBIT
"A mesmerising and majestic work of unusual depth that leads ears and eyes on a journey of becoming into a shimmering realm of unsettled and elusive ecstasy. It is akin to being immersed in a disorienting dance of light and shade, where cloud and sun chase and contradict each other with supernatural speed and delicacy until perception itself becomes an unfamiliar medium for haunting."
MAXIMILIAN LE CAIN, FILMMAKER

REVIEWS/FEATURES

RADIO

  • Stars End, WXPN FM

  • An Taobh Tuathail, RTÉ Raidio Na Gaeltachta

  • Dan Hegarty's The Alternative, RTÉ2FM

  • Raidió Mar Dhea, ÉIST

  • Radio Starr Belfast

A BALLAD FOR LOOKING INTO TIME

QUOTES

"a rare phantasmic feat… That port in the storm-like energy feels like a constant in NIMF’s output to date. Unfurling in myriad directions, it doubles up as an invitation to drop out of the everyday in favour of tapping the wellspring of one’s mind"
BRIAN CONEY OF THE THIN AIR
"It’s dizzying, fantastical, carrying your ears to spaces unexpected and delightful"
BANDCLOUD
"Become swept into the magical forest-like landscape… you have entered a portal to an ancient world of otherworldly creatures, one you thought only existed in folklore and fairytales; and a deep sense of eerie unease sets in"
MUSIC'N'GEAR
"whimsical dreamworld as a haven for exploring darker, heavier themes"
GORILLA VS. BEAR

REVIEWS/FEATURES

  • Number 1 Track of the year in The Thin Air’s Top 100 Irish Tracks of 2022 “We’re excessively confident we’re set for another year of genre-spanning, forward-pushing greatness"

  • Featured in the autumn 2023 issue of The Thin Air Magazine

  • Selected for the Keychange 2022 Programme as a future music industry leader representing Ireland

  • Guest lecture at Royal Irish Academy of Music to Postgraduate students on composition and audiovisual work (2023)

  • Music and Media Technologies Trinity College Dublin Graduate Exhibition at The Science Gallery, Dublin (2022)

  • Film Festival: Portugal – Monstra Animation Festival in Lisbon

RADIO

  • An Taobh Tuathail, RTÉ Raidio Na Gaeltachta

  • Dan Hegarty's The Alternative, RTÉ2FM

  • Gorilla Vs. Bear on Sirius XM (USA)

  • Alternativa 98FM (Mexico)

live performances

EAST COAST TOUR 2025

  • Panettone Fest., Skinny Apartment, Ridgewood, NYC, USA (2025)

  • Low Ceiling Sessions, Gallery Under Main, Highbridge, NJ, USA (2025)

  • Frightful Fantasy IV, Flemington DIY, Flemington, NJ, USA (2025)

  • The Low Pass Presents, Philadelphia, PA, USA (2025)

  • Soupçon Salon, Lambertville, NJ, USA (May) (2025)

  • Soupçon Salon, Lambertville, NJ, USA (October) (2025)

IRISH TOUR 2025

  • Supporting Drew McDowall (ex-Coil), Bello Bar, Dublin, Ireland (2025)

  • Little Gem Beag Anseo, Anseo, Dublin, Ireland (2025)

  • Supporting Jon Collin, Kirkos Unit 44, Dublin, Ireland (2025)

  • Steven Stapleton/Nurse With Wound Exhibit Solo Performance & Performance with Brian Conniffe (BC Orbit), Gallery X, Dublin, Ireland (2025)

  • Headline Concert, Yeats Building, Sligo, Ireland (2025)

  • Handmade Music, Accidental Theatre, Belfast, Northern Ireland (2025)

PRE 2025

  • Kirkos Ensembles' Spatial Audio Concert , Unit 44, Dublin, Ireland (2022)

  • Spilt Milk Festival, Sligo, Ireland (2023)

  • Gallery X, Dublin, Ireland (2023)

  • Different Sounds Festival (Godflesh support), Lublin, Poland (2022)

  • The Grand Social (2021)

  • The Button Factory, Dublin, Ireland (2018)

  • Dolans, Limerick, Ireland (2018)

  • Whelans, Dublin, Ireland (2017)

  • etc.

Commissions

  • Soundtrack for Dolorosa de la Cruz's Exhibit Hymns to Unknowability and Devotion featured in Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles and Royal Society of Antiquaries Ireland featuring my own compositions and a collaboration with Brian Conniffe/BC Orbit (2023)

  • GUBU Dolls Book Launch Gallery X, Dublin (2023)

  • RTÉ1 Television Performance 'Songs of Ireland' Re-Imagining of Traditional Irish Song with Pat Shortt and Mike Hanrahan (2024)

  • Short Film Score/Sound (2026)

  • Collaboration with film-maker to create conceptual album featuring compositions and sound design with audiovisual elements (2026)