Brian Dillon
Brian Dillon is a musician and sound artist, based in Dublin, Ireland. Originally from Nenagh, a small town in rural Tipperary, he has never quite been able to escape the lines of identity that separate his life from the lives of others.
Brian is a member of Meltybrains? and has worked with a range of Irish musicians over the last 10 years, including Talos, Denise Chaila, Loah, Brídín and Lilla Vargen among others. He has performed at many international festivals such as SXSW and Iceland Airwaves and his music has previously been featured in Q Magazine, Boiler Room and Spotify’s New Music Friday playlist. Despite the earnestness of much of his musical output, Brian is great craic (he swears).
Brian has also worked as a professional sound artist and sound designer and his previous work includes installations for Ireland's Museum of Modern Art and The Wild Atlantic Way. He has also been commissioned as a composer for several Irish authorities, including Fáilte Ireland, Cavan County Council and Tipperary County Council.
In recent years he has gleaned a great deal of experience from collaborating with a range of musicians, as well as artists from a number of disparate disciplines, including JFDR, Anna B Savage, Emma Martin (choreographer), Emmet Kirwan (actor/writer), Mark McGuinness (photographer) and Kate Dunne (aerialist). This has led to a number of commissions for screen, including scoring short films for Ellius Grace (director), Eamonn Dillon (documentary maker) and Aduantas (aerial dance company), as well as the creation of library music for Blip Trax (publishing house).