Brian House is an artist who investigates the rhythms of human and nonhuman systems. Through sound, subversive technology, and multidisciplinary research, he makes our interdependencies audible in order to imagine new political realities. Past work has incorporated the sounds of urban rats, vinyl records made from geolocation data, an orchestra distributed throughout a museum, and a street art project covering 467 cities around the world. His current project, Macrophones, explores atmospheric infrasound as a means of listening to the climate crisis.

House is a Creative Capital awardee and has exhibited at MoMA, Los Angeles MOCA, Ars Electronica, ZKM Center for Art and Media, V&A Museum, Beall Center for Art + Technology, Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Stockholm Kulturhust, Science Gallery Bangalore, Fridman Gallery, Issue Project Room, Eyebeam, and Brooklyn Botanic Garden, among other venues. The New York Times Magazine, The Wire, WIRED, The Guardian, and TIME’s annual “Best Inventions” issue have featured his work, and his research has been published in Leonardo, Journal of Sonic Studies, Media Art Study and Theory, and e-flux Architecture. He has composed for International Contemporary Ensemble, Yarn/Wire, and Robert Black, and has albums on Gruenrekorder, LINE (forthcoming), and Infrequent Seams (forthcoming).

House spent his undergrad at Columbia University’s Computer Music Center, holds a PhD in Computer Music & Multimedia from Brown University, and was Associate Scholar at Columbia’s Center for Spatial Research. He is currently Assistant Professor of Art at Amherst College.

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