bio


“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)
2023
Late Night Swim (EP, via Stereoscenic Records)
2022 August Underflow (w. Keesha Field, Konzertprojekt/the City of Sydney)
2020 Purple 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)
2026 Canvas of Time (Perth Fringe Festival)
2026 What We See In The Water (Shopfront Arts)
2025 ENDLING (Legs on the Wall, Vivid Sydney)
2025 Three (Short) Plays (Old Fitz Theatre)
2025 BiPolar 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


other

2024 Media Workshop  – Bang on a Can (USA)
2022 Mentorship Program – Australian Art Orchestra
2022
 Creative Music Intenstive – Australian Art Orchestra
2020–2021  HiberNATION Festival


Endling @ Vivid Sydney. © Legs on the Wall
Dancing at Lughnasa @ New Theatre. © Bob Seary
Bipolar Express @ Flight Path Theatre.

Images
© Keira Briggs
© Nick Bakopoulos-Cooke
Chaos Collective © Zoe Kemp
Supahoney © Hans Sutio
© Keira Briggs


Briggs is also an arts writer, contributing to publications including WNYC’s New Sounds, ClassikON, Limelight, Fine Music Sydney and the Australian Music Centre’s Resonate Magazine, and delivering pre-concert talks for organisations including Musica Viva Australia and Ensemble Offspring.

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