Tilman Robinson is a composer, producer and sound designer. He creates dark ambient and maximalist electro-acoustic music drawing from a wide musical palette. Tilman’s diverse output focuses on the psychological impact of dense sound incorporating acousmatics and psychoacoustic principles. His music ranges from drone heavy ambient meditations, to pointillistic flurries of electronically altered acoustic sound, to rich immersive field recordings.

Tilman has released three solo albums: CULTURECIDE (via Iceland’s Bedroom Community) Deer Heart (Hobbledehoy) and debut, Network of Lines (Listen/Hear). His music has been described as “…at once soothing and avant-garde, but never anything other than warmly human” (The Guardian) and has received widespread critical acclaim. Tilman’s most recent performance work, The Quieter You Become, utilises a custom-built spatial speaker system and is the product of extensive research with musicians experiencing symptoms of hearing conditions.

Tilman has received major commissions from Australian Art Orchestra, Speak Percussion, Arts Centre Melbourne, Perth International Arts Festival, and APRA; accolades including nominations for numerous arts prizes; and has twice been a finalist for the Melbourne Prize for Music. He has toured a broad range of festivals/venues including Dark Mofo, Phoenix Central Park and The Substation in Australia; Ruhrtriennale, Noorderzon and Berlin Jazz Festival internationally.

Tilman has worked extensively as a cross art-form collaborator for well over a decade. He is one of the most in-demand creative professionals in his field in Australia, having contributed scores and sound design to dance/theatre works, experimental music, corporate events, installations, films and television.

List of works

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“An hour in Robinson's room temporarily recalibrates my senses, makes me more conscious of my surroundings. You can't ask more from an artwork.” 5★, The Age, Melbourne on The Quieter You Become

“...there's a lingering sense of bleak romanticism here, a deliberate and human design that leaves the natural world as a beautiful and separate image." The Wire, on CULTURECIDE

"This is not just a highfalutin and overly cerebral body of work, it’s also a cracking album of sonic textures to get entirely lost in." Beats per Minute, on CULTURECIDE

“…a colossal cinematic marvel…” Headphone Commute on Deer Heart

“…addictive…” – Sunday Times, London on Deer Heart

"Tilman mesmerised an audience ... with music that was at once soothing and avant-garde, but never anything other than warmly human" Alex Needham via The Guardian