Max Gibson is a British-Irish composer, sound artist, performer,
writer, and educator, splitting his time between Birmingham, UK,
and Northern California. His works have been performed and
presented internationally in Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada,
France, Slovenia, Sweden, Turkey, the USA, and across the UK.
His teachers and mentors have included Rolf Hind, Antoine Beuger,
Ron Kuivila, Paula Matthusen, Howard Skempton, Michael Zev
Gordon, Scott Wilson, Daria Kwiatkowska, and Michael Finnissy,
among others.
Max’s work is eclectic, and draws on a myriad of lines of
interest, influence, and confluence, including medievalism,
architecture, globalism, industrialism, astronomy and astrology,
as well as the natural world. His recent work engages with
aspects of expanded time, line and counterpoint, sound massing,
the act of listening, and with configuring the space of
performance and spectatorship through interdisciplinary
approaches to composition. Concerns surrounding sustainable
creative practices, the politics of participation, and demands of
labor within various musicking models have also started to inform
and influence his philosophy of practice.
Graduate student composer Max Gibson along with collaborator
Nazli Tabatabai-Khatambaksh (Librettist) will see the premiere of
their short opera Leonard as part of Jewellery
Quarter Festival in late July. The work was commissioned by
the Birmingham
Opera Company in the United Kingdom.
