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FUAIM Lecture - Danny Bright - 07/11/24, Ó Riada Hall, 11:00
Acts of sonic fracture: working with Sonic Ghosting as an experimental music practice
Danny Bright is a composer, sonic artist, sound designer, musician and researcher working across the fields of music, performance, installation, theatre and media. His creative and critical work explores space/place/memory through a Sonic Ghosting practice; develops multi-modal composition, performance, critical and installation work; and explores contemporary guitar technology-based performance systems. Danny performs on guitar, samplescapes, tape, electronics, and text/voice as an ensemble member/leader, solo artist and improviser, and as half of no-input pedalboard duo Noise Peddler with Lee Westwood. He also works as a sound designer and composer for arts, theatre and media companies, and as a producer, recordist, sound technologist and audio engineer.
Danny’s work has appeared at the Hatton Gallery, V&A, Prague Quadrennial, World Stage Design, Edinburgh Festival, Brighton Digital Festival, Semaine des Arts, International Conference on Live Interfaces, New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, World Soundscape Conference, British Science Festival, on the BBC and Channel 4, and throughout the UK, Europe, Australia and the USA. Commissions and supporting organisations include: Catalyst Arts, Arts Council England, Canada Council for the Arts, Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, British Council, Heritage Lottery Fund, Octopus Collective, MAGNA Trust, and the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
He is currently Head of the Music Department at the University of Sussex.