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 also went to India to study sitar with Anand Mishra and Santa Cruz to study 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), 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, and Run Fast the Fire. He has most recently played with the Wicked Hemlocks while recording various other projects, including What Color Is Your Machine Gun?. Currently he plays in gypsy jazz band Djangos and Tangos, art rock band MAN BIRD LION, and the Megatoids while working on Panoply projects along with freelance sound design/composition.