Born in 1972; Dugal McKinnon is a New Zealand composer and sound artist. He completed his doctorate in composition at the University of Birmingham while working as a guest artist in the electronic music studios of the Technische Universität Berlin. Residencies have taken him to the IEM in Graz, the ZKM in Karlsruhe and STEIM in Amsterdam. At the New Zealand School of Music in Wellington he is deputy director and co-director of the Lilburn Studios for electronic music. His works include “let x =” (2014), commissioned by the IEM, and “Lost Oscillations” (2015), commissioned by the Audacious Festival of Sonic Arts; “This Storm Is Called Progress” (2016), created with Grayson Cooke, was shortlisted for the Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize at the South Australian Museum. In his writings he addresses ecological and material practices in sound-based art. In the Cybele catalogue he appears on DEGEM Vol. 9 – Orpheus 400 (2007) with “Strane e sconosciute vie” (2007) and on the audiobook Mirjam Wiesemann: Weht ein Stadtspaziergang durch den Traum (2014).
Dugal McKinnon
Composer
