Brian McCorkle

Brian McCorkle is a composer, performer, and digital artist. He was co-director of the Panoply Performance Laboratory (PPL) for over a decade and a founding member of Varispeed Collective. McCorkle has received residencies from Yaddo, Harvestworks, IDEA New Rochelle, Three Phase, and Chance House at John Cage Memorial Park, and has performed at the Venice Biennale, Adelaide Festival, American Repertory Theater, the Guggenheim, the Kitchen, the Whitney, Roulette, the Stone, PERFORMA, and other spaces across North America, Europe, and Australia. In addition to eight operas and hundreds of smaller performances with PPL, and five epic works of durational music making with Varispeed Collective (including Perfect Lives), McCorkle has worked with Robert Ashley, Joan La Barbara, thingNY, Colin Self and Raul de Nieves, Wang Jianwei, Warren Neidich, Banana Bag and Bodice, Thylias Moss, and others across disciplines.