ARTIST BIO

Jack Prest is a Sydney-based artist, composer, and recording engineer whose work spans experimental electronic music, interdisciplinary performance, composition, and sound-based collaborative practice.

Working across studio production, live electronics, improvisation, and spatial sound, his practice explores the emotional and physical dimensions of listening through highly detailed sonic environments. Moving fluidly between ambient composition, rhythmic structures, musique concrète, ensemble recording, and expanded performance contexts, his work is less defined by genre than by an ongoing interest in transformation through sound.

Originally emerging from backgrounds in conceptual art and studio engineering, Jack approaches sound as both material and structure, using recording, production, and composition as interconnected processes rather than separate disciplines. The studio remains central to his practice, functioning simultaneously as instrument, performance space, and compositional environment.

This approach extends into collaborative works across dance, theatre, installation, and live performance, where sound is often developed as an integrated structural element rather than accompaniment alone. His debut major interdisciplinary work, The Risk Of Hyperbole, was commissioned by Phoenix Central Park in 2021 and marked the beginning of an expanded focus on large-scale collaborative and spatial works.

His compositions, performances, and collaborative projects have been presented through institutions and festivals including Sydney Opera House, Sadler’s Wells, Sziget Festival, Art Gallery of NSW, Bundanon, NTS, Dublab, Triple J and FBi Radio.

Alongside his artistic practice, Jack has spent over a decade working as a recording and mix engineer across Australia’s independent music communities. He is particularly recognised for work within left-field electronic and jazz contexts, including long-term collaborations with Godtet and a broad range of contemporary artists working across experimental, improvised, and hybrid forms.

His engineering and composition practices continue to inform one another, grounded in a shared interest in sonic depth, atmosphere, physicality, and long-form listening experience.