BIO
SHORT BIO
Cody Brookshire's music has been performed at events and venues ranging from the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, to SEAMUS and CBDNA National Conferences, to the Oh My Ears! Marathon Concert in Arizona, including international performances ranging from the Audiograft Festival of Contemporary Experimental Music and Sound Art in Oxford, to the Guangzhou Grand Theater in China, and the Freedom On My Doorstep installation project at the Wiltshire Heritage Museum in England. He was a 2017 Artist-in-Residence at Avaloch Farm Music Institute, collaborating with guitarist Richard Knepp on a work for guitar and electronics. Cody has composed for and worked with artists such as Sō Percussion, Great Noise Ensemble, Transient Canvas, the Athens Guitar Duo, Chamber Cartel, MOD[ular] Ensemble, Neues Duo, the Hodgson Wind Ensemble at the University of Georgia, the Patriot Choir and the String Orchestra at the University of North Georgia, and conductors Cynthia Johnston Turner, Jaclyn Hartenberger, Robert J. Ambrose, Thomas Duffy, John Lopez, and Tyler Ehrlich.
Awards include 1st place in the 2015 Electrobrass National Composition Competition for From Afar, Drawing Near; 1st place in the 2014 and 2nd place in the 2015 Southeastern Composer's League Philip Slates Memorial Competition for Shrapnel and Irreconcilable Differences, respectively; as well as a 2015 Judge's Honorable Mention for the American Prize in Composition, student chamber division, for PRISM. Several of Brookshire's works have been professionally recorded and released including PRISM which appears on second record of the Athens Guitar Duo, "Recuerdos" on Claudio Records. M3TA11UR6Y, We Could Live Forever Tonight, and From Afar, Drawing Near appear on various electroacoustic compilation albums on the EMPiRES label, while OMEGA and Wasting All My Precious Time both appear on releases on Good Static Records. A short electronic work, Harmonic Meditation, No. 1 appears on the 2014 SEAMUS Miniatures album "Transients".
In December 2018, Cody Brookshire graduated from the University of Georgia with a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Music Composition. His dissertation project led to the creation of SynkroTakt, a new audio streaming technology for immersive live music performances involving audience participation. From Fall 2017 through Spring 2020, he taught music composition, music theory, and several other disciplines at Reinhardt University in Waleska, Georgia. In Fall 2020, Cody began his role as Assistant Professor at Southern Illinois University. There, he was dually-appointed in both the School of Music, primarily teaching music composition and music theory courses, and in the School of Media Arts, teaching technical skills in audio technology and music production. In 2022, he switched gears and took a rare opportunity to teach at the high school as an Educational Designer at The Delta School in Wilson, Arkansas. A school like no other, The Delta School had their own brand of intense and focused hands-on learning.
With the closure of The Delta School in the Summer of 2024, Cody and his partner, Brittany, made a move to Richmond, Virginia where he found footing freelancing as a music teacher, audio engineer, and composer. In 2025, he founded 1303 Audio & Music, a small business centered around music instruction and music production.
