John Driscoll is a composer/sound artist who is a founding member of
Composers Inside Electronics and collaborated on David Tudor’s Rainforest IV project
since its inception in 1973. He has toured extensively in the US and Europe with:
CIE, Douglas Dunn & Dancers, David Tudor, and also as a solo performer. His work
involves robotic instruments, compositions and sound installations for unique
architectural spaces, rotating loudspeakers, and music for dance. In 2014, he was
artist-in-residence at Harvestworks Inc. developing a work for robotic-driven highly
focused speakers, and has recently completed new works for an array of ultrasonic
instruments. He is working on the revival of David Tudor’s Pavilion works in
conjunction with CIE, E.A.T., Wesleyan Univ. and the David Tudor Project. In 2015,
he was the David Tudor Composer-In-Residence at Mills College and is currently
performing Tudor’s original Rainforest work as part of a reconstruction of Merce
Cunningham’s dance RainForest by the Stephen Petronio Company. He is collaborating
with Phil Edelstein and Matt Rogalsky on Rainforest V (a self-running installation
version) with two variations of the work. Rainforest V (variation 1) has been
acquired by the Museum of Modern Art (NY) for their collection and Rainforest V
(variation 2) has been acquired by Museum der Moderne Salzburg for their collection.
