Dr. Brigid Burke is an Australian composer, performance artist, clarinet soloist, visual artist, video artist and educator whose creative practice explores the use of acoustic sound and technology to enable media performances and installations that are rich in aural and visual nuances. Her work is widely presented in concerts, festivals, and radio broadcasts throughout Australia, Asia, Brazil, Europe and the USA.

Brigid’s main focus is integrating musical ideas with a combination of different media. Each component of media is a tool in the exploration of her artistic process: sound (acoustic, laptop, clarinets and electronics), composition, improvisation, installation, collaboration (with dancers, acoustic performers and other new media performers), print making, pen and ink drawings, painting and animation (digital). 

She regularly works across a range of contexts including experimental and improvised music, new chamber music, classical music ensembles and cross-disciplinary collaborations. Brigid’s work seeks to extend beyond the boundaries of her art form and to reimagine the possibilities of sound and visual.

Her involvement New Music has led her to integrate sound, visuals, video mixing and theatre in her performances of her own work and in collaboration with other composers/performers. Currently she curates with Mark Pedersen and Adrian Sherriff SEENSOUND a monthly Visual Music series at the LOOP Bar Melbourne –https://seensound.com and the Teal House Gallery with Steven Broughton and Melissa Sotelo https://www.thetealhousegallery.com

Recently she has been a recipient of an Australia Council Project Music Fellowship & new work commissions ‘Concrete Poems’, ‘Burning Antrils’, ‘Coral Bells’ & “Instincts and Episodes’ also Artist in Resident at Marshall University USA with a Edwards Distinguished Professor Artist Residency, Indiana University USA, also ADM NTU Singapore. Also most recently she has presented her works on the Big screen at Federation Square Melbourne, Splice Festival USA 2020, Tilde Festival 2019, ABC Classic FM and I Echofluxx Festivals Prague International Media Festival Prague 2013-20, ICMC International Computer Music Conference Perth Australia, Generative Arts Festivals in Rome, Milan, Ravenna & Florence Italy, Asian Music Festivals in Tokyo, The Melbourne International Arts Festival, Futura Music Festival Paris France, Mona Foma Festival Hobart, The International Clarinet Festivals in Japan and Canada also Seoul and Australian International Computer Music Festivals. She has a PhD in Composition from UTAS and a Master of Music in Composition from The University of Melbourne.

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