Composer Robert Coleman’s current work draws from numerous fields such as soundscape studies, site-specific art, field recording, and community and participatory arts. He is currently a PhD student at the Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen's University Belfast focusing on Ecological Sound Art where he is supervised by an interdisciplinary team from Sonic Arts and Biological Sciences. Throughout this time he has been developing his practice of the Ecological Soundwalk.

He has been commissioned by Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Sound Scotland, Crash Ensemble and New Music Dublin, the National Concert Hall Dublin, Irish National Opera, the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Tallaght Community Arts, violinist Larissa O’Grady and others.
Highly active in artistic direction he is a founding member and performer with Dublin based experimental music group Kirkos. In 2023 he founded the School of Wild Listening, a platform for the discussion and dissemination of ecological sound art. Its aim is to promote an understanding of the living world and the current challenges we face through open and accessible listening and creative sound events.

As a performer with Kirkos he has explored experimental repertoire from Irish and international artists, performing at Sound Festival, Scotland, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the Hugh Lane Gallery Sundays at Noon, the Douglas Hyde, Dublin Fringe, amongst others.