Music and Sound
Jeff Aaron Bryant is a composer-performer and sound designer working at the intersection of art and technology. Much of his work is concerned with interactive media and improvisation. As a composer, he’s interested in using aleatory to confuse performance and spontaneously generate form. As a designer, he’s interested in thinking of sound as real objects that inhabit space, and has a particular interest in sound that’s playful, generative, and engages with bodies.
BFA from Cornish College of the Arts: He studied both composition and computer music, with concentrations in percussion, non-western musics, and technological interventions in concert music. MFA from Calarts: His thesis was concerned with the role of the computer in arts technology and involved performance softwares, live electronics, and interactive controllers for dance. He’s based in Brooklyn.
Recent Works
Credits
Direction and Choreography: Caitlin Adams
Music Direction and Composition: Jeff Aaron Bryant
Performers: Maggie Beutner, Laura Carella, Savannah, Jade Dobbs, Abriel Gardner, Madison McGain, Megan Siepka, PJ Verhoest, and Gioia von Staden
Sound: Jeff Aaron Bryant and Chris Knollmeyer
Assistant Direction: Erin Bishop O'Brien
Stylist: Kristyn Williams
ASSEMBLY
Center for Performance Research, 2025
Credits
Choreography and Vocal Scores: Jesi Cook
Set and Costumes: Jesi Cook
Lighting Design: Daniele Sarti
Sound Design: Jeff Aaron Bryant
Movement: Ayano Elson, Amelia Heintzelman, Mina Nishimura
Whole body in my ear
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s River to River Festival, 2024
Credits
Choreography: Blaze Ferrer
Lighting Design: Ebony M. Burton
Costume Design: Emily White
Music and Sound: Jeff Aaron Bryant
Stage Management: Max Mooney
Performers: Blaze Ferrer, Joey Kipp, Alex Romania
Dick Biter
PAGEANT, 2024
Credits
Script and Songs: Julia Jarcho
Music & Music Direction: Jeff Aaron Bryant
Direction: Ásta Bennie Hostetter
Performers: Julia Jarcho, Jennifer Seastone, & Kedian Keohan
Set Design: Meredith Ries
Lighting Design: Ebony Burton
Costume Design: Hahnji Jang
Sound Design: Ben Williams and Elliot Yokum
Line Producer Caitlin Adams
Production Stage Management: Liz Weber
Production Management: Brittany Coyne
Intimacy & Fight Direction: Leana Gardella
Choreography: Pauli Pontrelli
Development & Dramaturgy: Sebas Alarcon
Marie, It’s Time
HERE Arts Center, 2022
Credits
Choreography: Blaze Ferrer
Lighting Design: Ebony Burton
Costume Design: Emily White
Music and Sound: Jeff Aaron Bryant
Performers: Justin Faircloth, Blaze Ferrer, Marisa Brau
GUSHER
The Brick, 2022
Credits
Conception: Ann Marie Dorr and Paul Ketchum
Performers: Ann Marie Dorr, Paul Ketchum, Kedian Keohan
Video and Sound: Jeff Aaron Bryant
Lighting Design: Dallas Estes
Production and Stage Managment: Kimberly Golding
Good And Noble Beings
The Brick, 2020
Credits
Conception: Erin Markey
Direction: Jordan Fein
Performers: Erin Markey and Emily Davis
Original Music: Jeff Aaron Bryant and Erin Markey
Choreography and Movement: Chloe Kernaghan
Set Design: Carolyn Mraz
Costume Design: Enver Chakartash with Carter Kidd
Lighting Design: Barbara Samuels
Sound Design: Jeff Aaron Bryant with Keenan Hurley
Assistant Set Design: Cori Williams
Associate Lighting Design: Dallas Estes
Production Stage Management: Kedian Keohan
Assistant Stage Management: Claire Moodey
Production Manager: Ann Marie Dorr
Singlet
Bushwick Starr, 2019