Manoli Moriaty

I am a music producer, performer, DJ, researcher and educator working across electronic music, multimedia performance and creative technology. My research explores DJ practice, electronic dance music cultures, collaboration across disciplinary boundaries, technologically mediated performance and the ways artists negotiate tools, scenes and embodied knowledge.

Originally from Athens, Greece, I am now Lecturer in Music Production at Liverpool Hope University. I lead the BA Digital Creativity programme and the MA DJ Performance and Broadcast Techniques, teaching across music production, electronic music, performance, broadcasting, creative technology and practice research.

My work has been presented at New Interfaces for Musical Expression, the International Computer Music Conference, Supersonic Festival, the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, Electric Nights Athens, Beijing New Dance Festival, Shanghai’s West Bund Centre, Manchester International Festival and the Ionian Academy’s Audiovisual Arts Festival. I have composed music for, performed alongside and collaborated with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Echo Echo Dance Company, Jim Cartwright, Teresia Björk, Nicola Ellis, Silvia Batista and Tywi Roberts’ UnHeard Ensemble, and I am currently working with Svara Radio and North Wales’ Equity Hi-Fi sound system. As curator and producer of the Metanast collective, I organised concerts that brought experimental, academic and international sound practices into nightlife contexts, hosting over 100 artists from more than 30 countries. On Record Store Day 2026, I organised the Revolving Grooves symposium on vinyl culture and DJ practice at Liverpool Hope’s Creative Campus. My research has been published with Taylor & Francis, Springer, Routledge and Cambridge University Press, and has appeared in the Journal of Pervasive Media, the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media and Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture.

I now live on the Wirral, where the skies over the Irish Sea provide a daily reminder that synthesisers are not the only things capable of dramatic modulation. Between periods of giving my tinnitus a well-earned rest, I continue to balance the BPMs of an expanding record collection that my partner, not entirely incorrectly, suspects is becoming too soft.