Personal Statement
Jenn Kirby is a composer, performer, and creative technologist, with compositional outputs including experimental electronic music, contemporary instrumental composition, electroacoustic music and avant-pop. With a research interest in embodiment, Jenn's creative practice involves making hybrid instrument, using sensors as interfaces to body movement, solo performance, and collaborating with dancers, visual artists and instrumentalists. Jenn teaches across music technology and music industries subject areas.

Jenn’s music has been performed throughout Europe, North America and in parts of East Asia, and has been commissioned by Crash Ensemble, Larissa O'Grady, Evlana / New Music Dublin, Kirkos Ensemble, Glasshouse Ensemble, Tokyo Gen’On Project, among others. Jenn has undertaken residencies with Cove Park, soundSCAPE Festival and National Theatre Wales and has released 4 solo albums (2 with pan y rosas discos) and 3 EPs. Her work has been described as “digital surrealism”, and “a sonic meditation on the fleeting temporality of embodied existence.”

Research Overview
Jenn's primary research interests are in the application of technology to music performance and composition. This includes hacking old technology and using contemporary technologies to find new means of expression in electronic music performance and to develop methodologies for achieving performer (human and object) agency in live electronic music. Jenn's current work focuses on agency and the interaction between sound, the body, and technology.