Cory O'Brien / Myo

Cory O'Brien is a computer musician and electro-acoustic improvisor who lives in Washington, DC. His work is a hyper-dense collision of feedback networks and extended technique percussion. The static, hovering compositions are meditations on the intersection of external environment and internal perception. Feelings of movement, tension and vertigo create a hyper-spacial awareness in the listener.

Cory O'Brien is a computer musician and electro-acoustic improvisor who lives in Washington, DC. His work is a hyper-dense collision of feedback networks and extended technique percussion. The static, hovering compositions are meditations on the intersection of external environment and internal perception. Feelings of movement, tension and vertigo create a hyper-spacial awareness in the listener.

The specific focus of his work is on internal sounds; the resonance of materials like plexiglass and metal, the chaotic life of feedback networks. This focus is realized through improvised performances set within strict compositional rules. The result has been called "louder, dirtier, gritty and angular, but still with ingredients of microsound" by Vital Weekly.

He has toured the USA and Europe, performing with artists like SKIF++, Andy Guhl, Ignaz Schick, Audrey Chen, Zavaloka, Alexi Borisov, Accelera Deck, Zenial, Chuck Bettis, Bonnie Jones, Jason Kahn, Mattin, Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words, Kotra, Andrey Kiritchenko, Pink Twins, Eliot Sharp, Carlos Giffoni, Sten Ove Toft, and many others.

Collaborations include Dì Tuī Piàn Duàn (with Mei Mei Chang), Dozen Dimensions Duo (with Jeff Carey), Never Work (with Kenneth Yates), Makioki Sisters (with Jeff Surak) and Clouds-Out (with video artist Jesse Hartgraves).

He is also web developer and associate curator for the Sonic Circuits Festival of Experimental Music in Washington, DC.