Betsey Biggs
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Betsey Biggs is a composer and interdisciplinary artist working with music, sound, video, interactivity, installation and performance. Her work aims to expose the beautiful in the mundane, to actively engage the audience, and to transform the city into a creative interface through psychogeographic practice. Recent projects include a theatrical work with flutist and performer Margaret Lancaster, an outdoor mixer powered by people's shadows and a series of downloadable soundtracks meant for walkers to engage with their surroundings. Betsey received her Ph.D. at Princeton University in 2009, writing about public sound art, and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Brown University.

"Symphony of the City," Alex Ross, The New Yorker, June 29, 2009
"Walkabout," Peter Matthews, Feast of Music, September 13, 2008
"Sensing Wonder," Molly Sheridan, New Music Box, May 2008

Download my dissertation: Everyone Play: Sound, Public Space, and the (Re)Making of Place



email: betseybiggs[at]brown.edu             [download cv as pdf]