“Her music is bursting with inventive and moving soundscapes.” - Obscure Sound
Maddy Briggs is a composer and sound designer who works across the fields of theatre, dance, screen, chamber music and fixed media composition. Her practice centres upon the digital elaboration and explosion of acoustic instruments, woven into highly textural soundscapes.
Her work has been presented at/by VIVID Sydney, MUSLAB’s International Electroacoustic Music Festival, the City of Sydney and Phoenix Central Park’s The Church, and has been aired on SBS On Demand, BBC Music 6 and FBi Radio.
She performs with improvising ensemble Chaos Collective and art rock band Supahoney.
select compositions
2025 First Dog In Space (SCALP Ensemble, Phoenix Central Park) 2023Late Night Swim (EP, via Stereoscenic Records) 2022August Underflow (w. Keesha Field, Konzertprojekt/the City of Sydney) 2020Purple Prose (City of Sydney) 2019 This Is Not A Torch Song (Vivid Sydney)
theatre/dance
2026 FLOP(Sydney Fringe Festival) 2026 Dancing at Lughnasa (New Theatre) 2026 PLATINUM (FORM Dance Projects) 2026Canvas of Time (Perth Fringe Festival) 2026 What We See In The Water (Shopfront Arts) 2025 ENDLING(Legs on the Wall, Vivid Sydney) 2025Three (Short) Plays (Old Fitz Theatre) 2025BiPolar Express(Sydney Fringe Festival)
screen
2024 Megafauna dir. Beatrice McGuire 2023 Maya dir. Tavishek Sharma 2023 A Sombre Lust dir. Jonathan Zhang 2022 Needs of the Few dir. Max Norington 2022 Eulogise Me dir. Alex Bateman 2021 Punishers dir. Alex Bateman
Briggs is also an arts writer, contributing to publications including WNYC’s New Sounds, ClassikON,Limelight, Fine Music Sydneyand the Australian Music Centre’s Resonate Magazine, and delivering pre-concert talks for organisations including Musica Viva Australia and Ensemble Offspring.