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Tilman Robinson is a composer, producer and sound designer. He creates dark ambient and maximalist electro-acoustic music drawing on a wide range of genres. Tilman’s diverse output focuses on dense sound, incorporating acousmatics and psychoacoustic principles. His music ranges from drone heavy ambient meditations, to pointillistic flurries of electronically altered acoustic sound, to rich immersive field recordings.

Tilman has released three solo albums: CULTURECIDE (via Iceland’s Bedroom Community)

Deer Heart (Hobbledehoy) and debut, Network of Lines (Listen/Hear). His releases have been described as “...at once soothing and avant-garde, but never anything other than warmly human” (The Guardian) and have received widespread critical acclaim. He is also a sought after musical collaborator having released recordings with Luke Howard (Mercury KX), Peter Zummo (7K!) and KCIN (Spirit Level).

Tilman has worked extensively as a cross art-form collaborative composer, sound designer and creative sound engineer for well over a decade. He is one of the most in-demand creative professionals in his field in Australia, having contributed scores and sound design to

innumerable dance/theatre works, experimental music, corporate events, installations, films and television.

Tilman has received major commissions from Australian Art Orchestra, Speak Percussion, Arts Centre Melbourne, Perth International Arts Festival, and APRA; accolades including nominations for numerous arts prizes; and has twice been a finalist for the Melbourne Prize for Music. He has performed a broad range of festivals and venues including Dark MOFO, MONA FOMA and The Substation in Australia; Ruhrtriennale, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and Berlin Jazz Festival internationally.

"...there's a lingering sense of bleak romanticism here, a deliberate and human design that leaves the natural world as a beautiful and separate image." – The Wire, on CULTURECIDE

"This is not just a highfalutin and overly cerebral body of work, it’s also a cracking album of sonic textures to get entirely lost in." –  Beats per Minute, on CULTURECIDE

“...a colossal cinematic marvel...” –  Headphone Commute on Deer Heart

“...addictive...” – Sunday Times, London on Deer Heart

"Tilman mesmerised an audience ... with music that was at once soothing and avant-garde, but never anything other than warmly human" –  Alex Needham (The Guardian)

IN DEVELOPMENT

The Quieter You Become is an electro-acoustic sound work that shifts through 1st, 2nd and 3rd person perspectives of listening. Seated within a forest of speakers, audiences are submerged in the psychological experience of how others hear. Developed in consultation with musicians experiencing symptoms of hearing conditions, The Quieter You Become encourages deep, humanistic listening and investigates whether we can truly trust our own senses. How do listening and hearing differ? And how might hearing through the ears of another enable us to listen with more acuity?

TQYB TEAM

• Tilman Robinson – lead artist, composer, sound designer and performer
• Roslyn Oades – dramaturg
• Bob Jarvis – audio systems design
• DUAL FLOW – lighting design/fabrication
• Rob Larsen – speaker design/fabrication
• Aviva Endean, Afsaneh Torabi and Tra Mi Dinh – performance consultants
• Siobhan McGinnity – audiologist, hearing and access consultant
• Michaela Coventry (Sage Arts) – producer
• Rebecca Bracewell, Morten Aarup, Harry Cook, Rebecca Tilley & Daniel Pinkerton – research participants
• Liam Byrne - viola da gamba (recorded)

The Quieter You Become has received support from Creative Australia, Creative Victoria, City of Merri-Bek, City of Melbourne, Speak Percussion, APRA AMCOS, Next Wave/Brunswick Mechanics Institute and The Substation