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.

RESIDENCES & AWARDS
2018 Vienna Summer Music Festival 2017 SIME 2017 International Electroacoustic Music Composition Finalist, Lille, FR 2016 Phil Winsor Electroacoustic Music Young Composers Award Finalist, WOCMAT, Taoyuan, TW • OMI International Music Residency, Ghent, US • Mutis Commission for Signal Festival, Prague, CZ 2015 Laboratoire Musique et Informatique Residency, Marseille, FR • Radical dB Festival Finalist (09/16) 2014 College of Fine Arts Juried Exhibition School of Music Award 2011 Composer-in-residence with Glitch Lich ensemble, Dept. of Performance Studies, Texas A&M University 2009 Elizabeth Mills Crothers Award for Outstanding Composition, Mills College

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
2022 Big Band du CNRS, La Caverne, Marseille, FR (16/12) • Benjamin O’Brien & Luke Darlison (e. guitar), Collection Lambert, Avignon, FR (23/04) 2020 Tony Buck & Marseille LABO Band, ReeVox-NH – Marseille, FR (22/12)

2018 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)