Kirk Pearson

Kirk Pearson is a composer and creative engineer living in the Bay Area. They spend a lot of time writing music for unconventional musical instruments, and, every once in a while, inventing new ones. Kirk’s sounds have appeared on prime-time television and in internationally touring installations, stage shows, animated cartoons, and hundreds of films, radio productions, and museum exhibits around the globe (in case those kinds of things are interesting to you).

Kirk’s sounds have been featured in movies at the Sundance Film Festival, on animated shorts for Adult Swim, in PSAs for the UNHCR, and in installations at SXSW and the American Museum of Natural History. Several of their invented instruments can be heard in Rihanna’s Savage X Fenty Show Vol. 4, on stage with dream pop band Vansire, and on permanent exhibit at the Oberlin Conservatory. In more trivial news, Kirk is a published paleontologist, an avid ice cream maker, and a former semi-professional juggler, and they once traveled 13,000 miles to filming a tuna’s journey from ocean to plate.

Kirk is the founder and director of Dogbotic, one of North America’s premiere creative audio studios.