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Brian Schorn is an interdisciplinary artist. His education includes an MFA in Electronic and Music and Recording Media from Mills College, an MFA in Graphic Design from Cranbrook Academy of Art, an MFA in Creative Writing from Brown University, an MFA in Photography from the University of Michigan, a BFA in Photography from the Center for Creative Studies and 2 years of pre-med at Oakland University.

Schorn studied music composition with Fred Frith, Alvin Curran, Pauline Oliveros and electronic music with Chris Brown and Maggi Payne. His music has been performed in France, Austria, New York, Oakland and elsewhere throughout the United States. He has performed with other composers and artists such as Cecil Taylor, Maryanne Amacher, Steina Vasulka, Ken Butler and Clay Chaplin. His electronic music has aired on KUNM in conjunction with the Santa Fe International Electro-Acoustic Music Festival, WOBC’s Foldover program at Oberlin Conservatory of Music and Village Nomade Radio in Marseille, France. His graphic musical scores were exhibited at The Mess Hall in Chicago as part of the Open Source/Open Ear event. For the last few years, Schorn has been active performing live electronic music incorporating theatrical elements, video and poetry. Schorn’s music appears on the compilation CDs “Open Source/Open Ear” and “The Last Signal.” His 60 second composition “Under a Submersive Sun” toured the Midwest with the 60x60 Project in 2007 and will be included in a forthcoming compilation CD in 2009. Recent news includes: 1) "Textures," a collection of text-sound compositions was released on cyclene.com; 2) graphic scores and creative writing were included in the new book "Notations21: An Anthology of Innovative Musical Notation." www.notations21.net/viewscores.html

Schorn’s visual art has been exhibited and published widely for the last twenty years including numerous solo exhibitions. In 2007, his solo art museum exhibition entitled “Magnum Opus: A 25 Year Retrospective,” featured over 75 works of painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, installation, sound art, performance art, video and graphic design. Other recent exhibitions include “Human Form” at Studio 71 South in Grand Rapids, Michigan; “Computer Punch Card Art” at the Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science in Souix Falls, South Dakota and “78th Regional Exhibition” at the Muskegon Museum of Art in Muskegon, Michigan.

Schorn’s graphic design has appeared in many books and magazines including Emigre, Ray Gun, Eye, Typography Now II, Cool Type and Typography 15. Currently, he is featured in Eye magazine (63) in the article "Dark Tools of Desire: Surrealism and Design" written by Rick Poynor. Check it out here: http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature.php?id=143&fid=615

Schorn’s creative writing has been published in numerous books, journals and anthologies including Strabismus, a full-length book of poems, Palm Desert, Joshua Tree, One Score More, Sulfur and O.blek. His writing has been translated into the Danish and published in Banana Split, a literary journal in Copenhagen, Denmark. Schorn’s hand-made poetry books are in the Marvin Sackner Collection of Concrete and Visual Poetry. He was awarded the Academy of American Poets Prize in 1991. New poems will be published in the journal Unsaid in the winter of 2009.

Currently, Schorn is exploring interdisciplinary works that incorporate electronic music, computer-triggered audio, live video, poetic monologues and body-based endurance performance art. The content of the performances explore ritualistic ceremony and initiatory challenges that encourage social, physical and psychological questioning. In addition, he is exploring meditation, sound healing, shamanic practice, trance, chant, yoga and Eastern philosophy as compositional material for sound-based experiments.