Rob Cosgrove is a percussionist, composer, and technologist interested in creating situations for embodied sounding. His works explore the feeling of a sound as a tactile, visual, and visceral entity by investigating the peripheries of sonic experience and the ways these contexts affect our perception. Recent projects include an interactive robotic installation that morphs remote users’ inputs through artificial intelligence, a gesture-controlled instrument that allows for real-time composition by a dancer, and a four-hour telematic radio broadcast and sound sculpture. Over the last year, Rob has received the SUNY PACC Prize for Performing Arts, Creation, and Curation to commission and record 10 new pieces for electroacoustic ensemble, a seed grant by the Institute for AI-Driven Discovery and Innovation for continued research in Music Information Retrieval, and a USArtists International Grant for a European tour in Fall 2021. Rob has performed/exhibited at Fridman Gallery (New York), Eastern Bloc (Montreal), National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.), DOX Center for Contemporary Art (Prague), KM28 (Berlin), and OZ Arts (Nashville). Rob is the current Artist-In-Residence at Practice Gallery (Philadelphia) and Technical Director for Yarn/Wire and Ensemble Decipher. He has a Doctorate of Musical Arts (Percussion Performance) from Stony Brook University.
