Discipline: Music Composition

Bret Battey

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Seattle, WA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2003
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Bret Battey is an American composer whose works spans several mediums, from electronic, acoustic, and multimedia concert works to installations and graphic design. Battey’s work also explores a variety of techniques, such as programming, generative techniques, sound processing, and sound synthesis. Battey received degrees in acoustic and electroacoustic composition from Oberlin Conservatory and the University of Washington before becoming a research associate for the University of Washington’s Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media. Battey has received several accolades for his work, including a Fulbright Fellowship, Austria’s Prix Ars Electronica, France’s Bourges Concours International de Musique Electroacustique, Spain’s Punto y Raya Festival and MUVi4, the Abstracta Cinema of Rome, the Amsterdam Film eXperience, the Fresh Minds Festival, and the Red Stick International Animation Festival. Currently, Battey teaches Audiovisual Composition at the Music, Technology, and Innovation Research Centre de Montfort University in Leicester, UK.

Studios

Watson

Bret Battey worked in the Watson studio.

Built in 1916 in memory of Regina Watson of Chicago, a musician and teacher, this studio was donated by a group of her friends, along with funds for its maintenance. Originally designed to serve as a composers’ studio with room for performance, Watson was used as a recital hall for chamber music for a…

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