Andrew Byrne is a New York-based composer, who has written works for film, dance, theater, and the concert hall. His music, which always betrays a fascination with polyrhythm, is influenced by American experimental music and non-Western music traditions and has been described as "sounding like a weird and wonderful otherworldly folk music."

"With samples, effects, and amplification, the ByrneBand makes a graffiti-wall
of ambient noise."
–Australian Financial Review

News:

September 28, 2008--Cries and Whispers for choir, piano and percussion
To be performed by Astra at Gasworks Theater, Melbourne.
Concert also includes music by Johanna Beyer, Stefan Wolpe, Francis Poulenc, Elliott Carter, and Neil Kelly


June 22, 2008--Lines Towards Another Century at the Holburne Museum, Bath, UK
a collaboration with visual artist Tom Nicholson, performance to include the Elysian Quartet

Lines Towards Another Century is commissioned by Media Art Bath, in Bath, UK.


April 4, 2008--White Bone Country performed at MATA Festival
Presented by Either/Or at Mata Festival 2008, at Brooklyn Lyceum in New York.


September 2007--Broadway Boogie (MOVE RECORDS) featuring Michael Kieran Harvey
CD includes Byrne's Six Dances, as well as music by Andrew Ford, John McCaughey, Nigel Westlake, Mark Pollard, and Michael Kieran Harvey.


June 24, 2007--Dragnet
As part of Ne(x)tworks 2007 festival, Stephen Gosling performed Dragnet at The Stone in the East Village, New York. Other composers featured in the program include Iannis Xenakis, Anthony Coleman, and Joan LaBarbara.


April 6, 2007—Cradle Song
Cradle Song was premiered by Either/Or at Tenri Gallery in New York, on April 6, 2007. The program also included works by Richard Carrick, Iannis Xenakis, Nick Didkovsky, Beat Furrer, Christopher Fox, Michael Gordon, and Mauricio Rodriguez.


December 21, 2006
Invisible Years, a documentary by filmmaker Gideon Boaz, is now available for viewing in Israel on Yes Cable Network - Ch. 8 begining December 21.

In 2006 Invisible Years was screened in these festivals (partial list):
NEWFEST - New York
Inside Out - Toronto, Canada
Silverlake Film Festival - Los Angeles
Mix Film Festival - Brazil


September 16, 2006--23.01.1901/12.07.2005
23.01.1901/12.07.2005, a collaboration between Tom Nicholson and me, was premiered at VCA Gallery, Melbourne. Performers included Peter Neville, percussion, for six singers/actors


June 2006--When Worlds Collide
performed by Lark Quartet and Ethos Percussion Ensemble
Scandinavia House, New York.


October 11, 2005
The premiere of [in]visible voices took place on Tuesday, October 11, 2005, at the Walter Reade Theatre, Lincoln Center, New York.