George Higgs(b. 1968) is a composer, writer and director for theatre and cinema. His work has been performed across Ireland, in Russia and the United States and has received numerous awards including the Director's Prize from the Chamber Orchestra Kremlin and the Project New Work Award. He holds a Masters degree in music technology from Trinity College Dublin and is represented by the Contemporary Music Centre of Ireland.
George has received generous Arts Council support for his last 3 large scale projects. He recently composed and directed a piece of music cinema, Bed of Macbeth, which was installed in the Project Arts Centre, Dublin in October, 2008. The installation involved a bed with a movie screen on its canopy, vibrating speakers in its mattress and audio speakers all around. One or two spectators could lie in the bed at a time and watch one of five films George composed based on the bedchamber relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.
This year, George has been granted a Project Award to compose Head of Hamlet, which will be installed in the Project Arts Centre in December, 2009.
Please refer to the 'works' section of this website for a comprehensive list of works, as well as audio and video samples of his work.
The Electro Acoustic Exchange was a work for 8 hanging speakers, cello, commodities and sine waves, and was installed in the Project Arts Centre in July, 2007. To complete this project, George wrote a score based on a three-month-study of fluctuating commodity values around the world (please see short film on website). Audience members were free to wander amongst the hanging speakers, and even to push them as they listened and watched the sounds of fluctuating values.
Watch video excerpt.
George has recently invested a great deal of time experimenting with different performance algorithms using Pure Data.