LIFE

Brian McCorkle was born and raised in Michigan and spent his childhood touring the country and the world with the Battle Creek Boychoir. At the University of Michigan he began making bizarre and noisy electronic rock music and playing in a metal band Cojum Dip. He studied sitar in India with Anand Mishra and studied algorithmic music with David Cope. At Michigan he studied poetry with Thylias Moss, and jazz piano with Geri Allen. He has done work with Panoply Performance Laboratory starting with Woyzeck (composition, sound design, performance, and music direction) and Mother Courage and her Children (composition, sound design, performance, and music direction) and In the Company of Eshu (composition, sound design, performance, and music direction) in Ann Arbor, MI, continuing in New York with On the Cranial Nerves of Barbarians (composition, sound design, performance, and music direction), Qualia (composition and performance), The Silviculture Museum (composition and programming), Schooled and Unschooled (composition, sound design, performance, and music direction), Workforce/Forced Work (composition, sound design, performance, and music direction), The Last Dreams of Helene Weigel or How to Get Rid of The Feminism Once and For All (composition, sound design, performance, and music direction), and How To Answer To the Problems (composition and performance). Other theater composition and sound design duties include Summer and Smoke with Blue Sky Productions, 5 Kinds of Silence at Teatro Circulo, Lotus Feet at Theater for the New City, and Run Fast the Fire.

He is currently co-Director of the Panoply Performance Laboratory and can be seen in upcoming performances in New York City as part of PERFORMA '11 (in Robert Ashley's That Morning Thing at the Kitchen and Perfect Lives by the same composer at various locations in Manhattan) and the COIL Festival (as part of Too Shy to Stare by Davis Freeman at PS122).