About Brittany J. Green

Brittany J. Green

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Creator During the 2024-2025 Season

Brittany J. Green (she/her(s)) is a North Carolina-based composer, creative, and educator. Her music facilitates intimate musical spaces that ignite visceral responses at the intersection of sound, video, movement, and text. Recent works engage sonification and black feminist theory as tools for sonic world-building, exploring the construction, displacement, and rupture of systems. Her artistic practice includes spoken and electronic performance, interdisciplinary collaboration, experiential projects, and acoustic and electroacoustic chamber and large ensemble works. Her music has been featured at TIME:SPANS, NYC Electronic Music Festival, WoCo Fest, and Experimental Sound Studio. Her collaborators include the International Contemporary Ensemble, JACK Quartet, Transient Canvas, Castle of our Skins, Emory University Symphony Orchestra, and Wachovia Winds. Brittany holds awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, ASCAP Foundation, and New Music USA. She is a doctoral candidate at Duke University, pursuing a PhD in music composition as a Dean’s Graduate Fellow.

Thread and Pull

Thread and Pull explores concepts of restraint, constraint, and dissension. Driving rhythms move throughout the ensemble in tandem and opposition, halted by gestures of silence. The piece utilizes text from Ghazal 1419 by Jalāl al-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (public domain).

Take Some Time

Take Some Time is a collaboration between LOCC composer Brittany J. Green and HHN2L as a part of the Louisville Orchestra Rap School program. Green partnered with Rap school student-producers Oren Hatchett and Kamari Harper and producer Jon Woo to produce an original track and arrange it for orchestra. Student rappers from the rap school then worked with Teddy Abrams and Green to write lyrics for the track inspired by themes of self-esteem and self-determination. Take Some Time was premiered at the Louisville Orchestra's Making Music Concert series, conducted by Kalena Bovell.

The Lands of Hypnagogia

The Lands of Hypnagogia follows the adventure of Cyan, a young person who turns into a dragon in his dreams. As they travel through the Lands of Hypnagogia, Cyan encounters a dream tree and a band of mystical characters and goes on a thrilling journey of deceit, teamwork, and hijinks before returning home. The Lands of Hypnagogia is a collaborative project between the Louisville Orchestra, the Waldorf School of Louisville, and the University of Louisville. The piece is comprised of an original short story written by students in the Waldorf School's Creator Club under the direction of Gregory Acker, original animation by University of Louisville students AJ Ruffra and Isabel Ahnemiller under the direction of Ryan O'Hare, and original music composed by Waldorf School's Creator Club and LO Creators Corps composer Brittany J. Green.

Performances

All Performances
  • Friday, November 15, 2024 | Coffee: Ray Chen Plays Barber | Whitney Hall | Against/sharp
  • Saturday, November 16, 2024 | Classics: Ray Chen Plays Barber | Whitney Hall | Against/sharp
  • Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025 | Classics: Der Kaiser von Atlantis | Whitney Hall | Thread and Pull
  • Thursday, February 27, 2025 | Music Without Borders: Myths & Legends | The Jeffersonian | In the Beginning
  • Friday, February 28, 2025 | Music Without Borders: Myths & Legends | Neighborhood House | In the Beginning
  • Wednesday, March 12, 2025 | MakingMUSIC | Whitney Hall | Take Some Time
  • Thursday, March 13, 2025 | MakingMUSIC | Whitney Hall | Take Some Time
  • Friday, March 14, 2025 | MakingMUSIC | Whitney Hall | Take Some Time
  • Friday, May 9, 2025 | Coffee: Creators Fest | Whitney Hall | The Lands of Hypnagogia
  • Saturday, May 10, 2025 | Coffee: Creators Fest | Whitney Hall | The Lands of Hypnagogia