About

Isaac Orson Phillips is a composer, sound designer, and creative technologist working across music, theatre, film, visual art, and the immersive arts. His collaborative work spans award-winning stage and screen projects, including sound design for the Autopsy Award-winning production The Dreaming, alongside work supported by the National Theatre of Scotland and Immersive Arts.

As a multidisciplinary collaborator, Isaac builds multifaceted systems that bridge live performance with immersive visuals, spatial audio, VR, and interactive projection. Rather than treating technology as a sterile post-production layer, he creates responsive environments where sound, image, and audience interaction operate in direct dialogue.

His practice is grounded in formal training in contemporary classical and electroacoustic composition at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, studying under David Fennessy. His concert works have been developed with and performed by leading UK ensembles, including the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Red Note Ensemble.

Underpinning his work is an aesthetic philosophy of post-cringe: a conscious refusal to use self-consciousness or fear of embarrassment as an artistic filter. For Isaac, intentionally leaning into the weird, the ugly, and the absurd is a radical act. It is a way of making nonsense in a world hell-bent on making sense, finding sincere resonance in the mundane spaces in-between.