Dr Benjamin Tassie

Benjamin Tassie (b.1987) is a composer, sound-artist, and researcher. His work investigates the ways in which historical musical instruments, tuning systems, and performance practices can be recontextualised to speak to our contemporary experiences. Drawing on elements of instrument design, electronics, installation, and long-form microtonal and mixed media work, Tassie’s music has been commissioned and performed by organisations and ensembles including The National Galley, Tate Britain, Nordic Affect, Zubin Kanga, Liam Byrne, and the Ligeti Quartet. Awards include the prestigious PRS Foundation and Jerwood Arts Composers’ Fund award and an Ivor Novello Award nomination for ‘Best Sound-art’. He is Lecturer in Composition at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Programme Manager at Music in the Round, and presenter of the weekly radio show on Resonance FM.