Damien Ricketson is a composer and academic at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney. Ricketson’s visceral and multisensory works explore the relationship between vibration and the body and listening beyond what is heard by the ears. Ricketson was the founder and Co-Artistic Director of Ensemble Offspring (1995-2015), a unique arts company dedicated to adventurous new music, and the Program Leader of Composition and Music Technology at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music (2015-2019). Ricketson has received numerous awards including the international Music Theatre Now Prize (2018); Work of the Year in vocal/choral and instrumental categories in the Art Music Awards (2014 & 2019); and represented »Oceania« in the Tokyo World Festival (2019).