Brian Harnetty is a composer and artist from Ohio. Many of his pieces transform fragments of found source material - including field recordings, transcriptions, and samples - into a personal and often political style.

Over the past several years, Harnetty has had the opportunity to expand his focus to include sound and visual art. Recent projects include collaborating with video artists on a work that served as a contemporary reflection on slavery, on view recently at the New York Historical Society; creating a CD of re-contextualized field recordings of Appalachia, called American Winter, released on Chicago's Atavistic Records; and working with sociology students in rural Kentucky to create audio collages based on new and archival interviews with coal miners and war veterans from the region.

Additionally, Harnetty is a part of a non-profit organization and art collective, Fossil Fools, which is dedicated to disseminating information surrounding environmental and social justice issues. As part of the collective, he has worked in such areas as the coalfields of eastern Kentucky to the cornfields of northern Iowa with students, local arts organizations, and community activists.

Education

Royal Academy of Music (UK), M.M
The Ohio State University, B.M.

Courses Taught

MUSC 101 Basic Musicianship
MUSC 122 Music Theory
MUSC 221 Music Counterpoint
MUSC 322 Music Composition
MUSC 392 Avant-garde Music

Websites:

www.brianharnetty.com
www.makeando.org
www.fossilfools.org
www.atavistic.com