maddy briggs

“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, screen composition, chamber music and fixed media works.

A graduate othe Sydney Conservatorium of Music, her practice centres upon the digital elaboration and explosion of acoustic instruments, weaved together into highly textural soundscapes.

Her work has been presented at VIVID Sydney, MUSLAB’s 2024 International Electroacoustic Music Festival and Phoenix Central Park’s venue The Church, and has been aired on SBS On Demand, BBC Music 6 and FBi Radio.

She is the composer and sound designer for Endling, a physical theatre installation piece by Legs on the Wall that was presented at VIVID Sydney in 2025.

During lockdown, her collaborations with the APRA award-nominated HiberNATION festival include a series of solo and collaborative livestreams and an avant-garde Minecraft sound installation.

She also co-curated Konzertprojekt’s 2022 concert series Sound Stories in partnership with the City of Sydney, for which she created an audiovisual collaboration, August Underflow, with visual artist Keesha Field.

She was the recipient of the Australian Art Orchestra’s 4th Mentorship Program with mentor Tilman Robinson, and was awarded a place in Australian Art Orchestra’s 2022 Creative Music Intensive.

She is a member of new music ensemble Chaos Collective.

She is also an arts writer, contributing to Limelight as a Staff Writer. She has also contributed articles to WNYC’s New Sounds, ClassikON, Honi Soit, Fine Music Sydney, and Resonate Magazine. She has delivered pre-concert talks for Musica Viva Australia and Ensemble Offspring.

In 2024, she was selected as a participant for Bang On A Can’s Media Workshop in Massachusetts.

select works

exe.cute - 2018
This is Not a Torch Song - 2019
Welcome Stranger, But Now We Must Leave Without Thanks - 2019
Purple Prose - 2020
August Underflow - 2022
Late Night Swim - 2023
Violet Ends - 2023
First Dog In Space – 2025

scores

2021
Punishers dir. Alex Bateman

2022
Eulogise Me, dir. Alex Bateman
Needs of the Few dir. Max Norington

2023
Maya dir. Tavishek Sharma
A Sombre Lust dir. Jonathan Zhang

2024
Megafauna dir. Beatrice McGuire