Tilman Robinson is a composer, sound designer and producer driven by an innate curiosity about how the abstract medium of sound can be used to create meaningful psycho-social change in those who experience it. Drawing on a wide musical palette, his work ranges from drone heavy ambient meditations, to pointillistic flurries of electronically altered acoustic sound, to rich immersive field recordings. His genre diverse output spans across albums and performance.

Tilman has released three solo albums: CULTURECIDE (Bedroom Community [Iceland]) Deer Heart (Hobbledehoy [AU]) and debut, Network of Lines (Listen/Hear [AU]). 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 award-winning performance work, The Quieter You Become, utilises a custom-built 42-channel spatial speaker system and is the product of extensive research with musicians experiencing symptoms of hearing conditions. “You can't ask more from an artwork. 5★”
(The Age).

Tilman has received commissions from Australian Art Orchestra, Speak Percussion, Arts Centre Melbourne, Perth International Arts Festival, and APRA; accolades including nominations for numerous art awards; and has twice been a finalist for the Melbourne Prize. He has toured a broad range of festivals/venues including Dark Mofo, Phoenix Central Park and The Substation in Australia; Le Grand Palais, Southbank Centre and Berliner Festspiele internationally.

For over a decade Tilman has worked extensively as a cross art-form collaborator. He is one of the most in-demand creative professionals in his field in Australia, having contributed scores and sound design to dance, theatre, experimental music, installations, film and television. Equally at home in the studio, Tilman has produced and engineered numerous albums for recording artists and contributed string, brass and orchestral arrangements. His contribution to collaborative works transcends the traditional confines of his medium.

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