Isaac Orson Phillips is a Glasgow-based composer and sound artist working across music, theatre, film, and contemporary performance. Their practice is rooted in a critical exploration of contemporary life, blending electroacoustic composition with a DIY ethos and an eye toward systems, memory, and the politics of perception.
Often working at the threshold of the uncanny and the absurd, Isaac’s work engages with themes of technology, digital culture, and social trauma, constructing sonic spaces that are both intimately sincere and quietly unsettling.
A graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, their work has been presented by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Red Note Ensemble, BUZZCUT, BFI Film Festival, and Aesthetica Short Film Festival. Their approach moves fluidly between genres and disciplines, using sound to explore the psychological residues of the present and the haunting echoes of imagined futures.