Brian Garbet composes acoustic and electroacoustic music for film, theatre, and the concert hall. His work often incorporates field recordings or found sound through transcription, spectral analysis, and fixed audio playback.

He received a BFA from Simon Fraser University, where he studied with Barry Truax and Hildegard Westerkamp and won a Jeu de Temps/Times Play national prize for his composition Ritual. He would also contribute to the World Soundscape Project by digitally archiving the original master tapes for the entire European and Canadian collections.

After years of touring and recording with the rock band Crop Circle, Brian studied in Vancouver with Rodney Sharman and completed his Master of Music degree at UBC, where his teachers included Bob Pritchard and Keith Hamel. He recently completed his PhD at the University of Calgary under the supervision of Laurie Radford, where he also studied with Allan Bell.

WATCH: Brian Garbet turns the Windsor Hum noise pollution into an electroacoustic concerto, in collaboration with clarinetist François Houle.