Music

The following is a list of honours, discography, and notable performances. Feel free to check out my Bandcamp, SoundCloud and Vimeo pages for more information.

MUSIC PROJECTS

Big Band du CNRS de Marseille (Marseille Big Band specialising in jazz, funk, salsa)

Benjamin O’Brien (Experimental electronics and guitar)

Darlison O’Brien Duo (20^th century music and free improvisation guitar duo)

Petits Accents (American pop trio based in Marseille)

Moby & The Dicks (Pop & originals by Charlottesville-based musicians)

DISCOGRAPHY
Darlison O’Brien Duo Live at Collection Lambert (self-release: 12/22) • Darlison O’Brien Duo Meditations EP (self-release: 04/22) • cause et fx (self-release: 04/22) • Marseille Labo Band 13 (self-release: 12/21) • Afternoon in the Galapagos (sonospace, London: 01/17) • Densité (UNDÆ! Radio, Madrid: 09/16) • For In-Between Times (naucleshg, Madrid: 05/16) • eaves in Sonic Haikus: Electroacoustic Miniatures (SEAMUS, US: 04/16) • Six4 for Eight Spaces in Re-Caged: Electroacoustic Miniatures (SEAMUS, US: 01/13) • cila (Taukay Edizioni Musicali, Florence: 10/08)

NOTABLE PERFORMANCES
2024 Big Band du CNRS, Jazz Cinq Continents, Marseille, FR (09/06) • 2022 Benjamin O’Brien & Luke Darlison (e. guitar), Collection Lambert, Avignon, FR (23/04)

2018 Tony Buck & Marseille LABO Band, ReeVox-NH – Marseille, FR (22/12) • Ulrich Drechsler (b. clarinet) & Benjamin O’Brien (e. guitar), Vienna Summer Music Festival – Vienna, AT (16/06) • along the eaves, Festival Mixtur – Barcelona, ES (29/04) 2016 The Loop, Universidade Estadual do Paraná, Brasil (22/07) • Benjamin O’Brien (e. guitar), Julien Bayle (electronics), Fa Cesario (electronics), Marseille, FR (03/05) • Piano Roll, Diffrazioni Festival – Florence, IT (21/11) • along the eaves, Festival Ecos Urbanos – Mexico City, MX (09/11) • along the eaves, Malaysia Music Technology Festival – Kuala Lumpur, MY (22/10) • OSCines, Electroacoustic Music Festival – Rome, IT (24/10) • The Loop, Signal Festival – Prague, CZ (21/10) • Benjamin O’Brien, Chuck Johnson (e. guitars), Data – Marseille, FR (06/09) • OMI International Music Residency – Ghent, NY (11-28/08) • along the eaves, Sonic Environments – Brisbane, AU (01/07) • along the eaves, Art & Science Days – Bourges, FR (01/06) 2015 along the eaves, Muestra Internacional de Música Electroacústica – Mexico City, MX (09/12) • OSCines, EviMus Festival, Saarbrücken, DE (04/11) • along the eaves, Electroacoustic Music Festival – Rome, IT (05/10) • along the eaves, International Computer Music Conference – University of North Texas, Denton, US (01/10) • Benjamin O’Brien (e. guitar) & Joan Jordi Oliver Arcos (sax), Radical dB Festival – Zaragoza, ES (23-25/09) • OSCines, Brooklyn Acoustic Ecology Festival – Brooklyn, US (16/04)

2014 BabyBirdBeat, Arts and Science Days – Bourges, FR (01/05) • OSCines, Sweet Thunder Festival of Electro-Acoustic Music, San Francisco, US (15/04) • OSCines, Slingshot Athens Music & Arts Festival, Athens, US (15/03) • Ph.D recital, University of Florida, Gainesville, US (17/03) • OSCines, SEAMUS National Conference – Wesleyan University, Middletown, US (28/03) 2013 OSCines, Workshop on Computer Music and Audio Technology, Taoyuan, TW (01/12) • Live coding concert with Glitch Lich, US Consulate – Shanghai, CN (12/12) • OSCines, Symposium on Acoustic Ecology – University of Kent, Kent, UK (01/11) • OSCines, International Computer Music Conference – Perth, AU (11/09) • OSCines, Toronto International Electroacoustic Symposium – Toronto, CA (15/08) • Diptiq, International Symposium on Electronic Art – Sydney, AU (01/06) • Chad McKinney’s Shoggoth with Glitch Lich, New Interfaces for Musical Expression – Seoul, KR (28/05) • La Langue Maternelle, Densité, Glitch Lich live coding concert, International SuperCollider Symposium – University of Colorado, Boulder, US (20/05) • La Langue Maternelle, Festival Silence – Lecce, IT (10/05) • Diptiq, NoiseFloor Festival – Staffordshire, UK (01/05) • La Langue Maternelle, SEAMUS Conference – McNally Smith College of Music, St. Paul, US (18/04) • Densité, NYCEMF – NYC, US (02/04) • Chad McKinney’s Yig with Glitch Lich, live.code.festival – Karlsruhe, DE (19/04) • Live coding concert with Glitch Lich, Network Music Festival – Birmingham, UK (22/02) • Densité, SCI National Conference – The Ohio State University, Columbus, US (13/02) • Composer-in-residence with Glitch Lich – Texas A&M University, College Station, US (05/02) • Densité, Audiograft – Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK (01/02) 2012 Densité, Workshop on Computer Music and Audio Technology – National Taiwan University, Taoyuan, TW (01/12) • Densité, Colloqui di Informatica Musicale – Udine, IT (23/11) • La Langue Maternelle, SCI National Conference – Lewis College, Columbus, US (12/10) • Densité, Chad McKinney’s Yig with Glitch Lich, International Computer Music Conference 2012 – Ljublijana, SI (14/09) • Glitch Lich, lecture and performance – TEDxSussex, Sussex, UK (27/04) • Diptiq, Linux Audio Conference – Stanford University, Palo Alto, US (24/04) 2011 Diptiq, SEAMUS Conference – University of Miami, Miami, US (20/01) • all two clarinet, International Computer Music Conference – University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK (31/07) • all two clarinet, Electronic Music Studies Network Conference – NYC, US (18/06/11)

2010 all two clarinet, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, ES (01/11) • Chuck Johnson, Danishta Rivero, & Benjamin O’Brien (electronics), Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, US (10/01) 2009 Matt Marble & Benjamin O’Brien (electronics), Free-Form Mash Up, Princeton University, Princeton, US (15/11/09) • i.v., Signal Flow – Mills College, Oakland, US (15/03/09) • Mills Improvisation Ensemble performs works by Fred Frith, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, US (01/02/09) 2008 Mills Improvisation Ensemble performs works by Anthony Braxton with Gino Robair, Mills College, Oakland, US (01/12) • Roscoe Mitchell‘s Nonaah for electric guitar quartet: Benjamin O’Brien, Karl Evangelista, Chad McKinney, Andrew Conklin (e. guitars), Mills College – Oakland, US (20/11) • Performance of Cornelius Cardew’s The Tiger’s Mind with Keith Rowe, Mills College, Oakland, US (01/11/08) • cila, FrammentAzioni – Cittá di Udine, Udine, IT (08/10/08) 2007 cila, Recombinant Media Labs, San Francisco, US (01/12/07)