Simon O’Reilly is a composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, visual artist and cofounder of Hedge School Festival. His is based near the Cliffs of Moher where he has his recording studio. He has worked with many musicians including Rufus Nightjar, Manchán Magan, The Monks Of Glenstal, Mick Flannery & Susan O’Neill, Myles O’Reilly, The ConTempo Quartet, Steve Wall, and many more. He has written music for award winning films and documentaries including Sundance award winner The Summit.

In 2023 Simon put together a stage show with Manchán Magan called “Slí na Samhlaíochta” (The Way of Imagination) presented by Once Off Productions and featuring Manchán and the Other World collective. They performed 2 shows at the Kilkenny Arts festival. Slí na Samhlaíochta featured an ambient score directed by Simon that underscored Manchán’s words, it was accompanied by a stunning visual narrative made by the Otherworld team.

As a songwriter notable cowriting alumni include Mic Flannery & Susan O’Neills Choice music award nominated 2021 album ‘ In the game, ‘ Steve Wall -Rise with the sun, Luka Blooms – Tribe, Rónán Ó Snodaigh – Tiptoe, Davy Spillane – Deep Blue Sea among others. He has written two solo albums, Tide Lines 2004 and Evolve 2016. Evolve was Irish Times album of the week in Nialler 9s colm and Dan Hegarty’s top 10 Albums of 2016.

Simons work in ambient music, film scoring and event curation led him to develop an interest in visual arts. After visiting a local dump and noticing several perfect tube TVs he brought them back to his studio and hooked them up to visual projection mapping software Resolume. After been barred from the local dump and 40 TVs later he built a wall of TVs with 4 feeds of visuals. The TV walls first outing was used for Simons interactive immersive exhibition / performance ‘ Memlab ‘. Memlab was a a fictional company that would harvest memories from live participants who would talk in to samplers via old phones under the impression that their memories were been preserved for future generations. At the end of the performance they realised they were duped into having there memories harvested for other people and would need a premium account to retrieve them.

Since Memlab the TV wall has had two other outings with the collective Simon set up called ‘ Lost Vision Collective ‘ In 2024 The collective had an exhibition at the Courthouse Gallery Enistymon and the Hedge School festival in Doolin. They put an open call out to film makers and visual artists to have their work shown on the TV wall and appear in a Zine brochure documenting the event. Their were 20 successful applicants both Irish and International and the films were well received at both events. After the Courthouse show there was a live performance from Anna Mularky, Myles O’Reilly, Simon and others.