Julia Edith Rigby is an experimental composer, improvisor, sound artist and video artist. She works with live instrumentation, seismological technologies, expanded cinema and field recordings to expand and entangle our thinking about ritual and breathing, listening and resonance, deep time and sense of place and ask: what can we learn about our rapidly changing world—and our relationships with other living things, with our environments, with ourselves--by finding new ways to listen? How can tuning our attention to new ways of listening help us better understand—and reimagine—the stories of our planet?
Rigby has performed on The Great Organs at FCCLA in Los Angeles (Resonance Collective Golden Thread Concert Series, 2026), the NUUC organ in Pasadena (Open Gate Concert Series, 2026), the Mount Allison University Chapel organ in New Brunswick (Sappyfest, 2024), The Church / Art House organ in Omaha (2023) and the Immanuel Presbyterian Church organ in Los Angeles. She has played The Chapel in Seattle (2026), LEAF Festival in Lafayette, Colorado (2024), LOW End at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska (2023), the Toulouse Theater in New Orleans (2023), the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna, Florida (2023), and Grand Central Art Center during her solo exhibition Fever Dream in 2024. Her work has been featured twice on Bandcamp’s Best Field Recordings. She is a recipient of artist grants from the LA County Department of Arts and Culture, Arts New Brunswick, the Center for Cultural Innovation and the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Rigby was the Sound Art + Experimental Music Fellow at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska in fall 2023, and was recently awarded a fellowship at Cycladic Arts in Greece. She received her MFA in Studio Art at the University of California, Davis (2020), where she was a recipient of the Mary Lou Osborn Award and the Fay Nelson Award.