Brian Ellis is a composer, web-based creator, and guitarist. His musical drive lies in using code to realize his larger compositional vision:

technology should be used toward divesting musical agency from the composer to the environment, the performer, and ultimately, the listener.

Brian is a recent graduate of the University of Texas, where he earned his double major in Music and Computer Science Honors. He studied with Nina C. Young, Chris Ozley, and Celil Refik Kaya, among others. Brian currently studies composition with David Coll. He has presented his work at numerous events, including ICMC, ROCC, SEAMUS, SPLICE Festival, SoSI, Ears Eyes and Feet Collaborative Concert, the Good House Collective's "Time Warp", as well as in numerous student concerts and house concerts at the University of Texas. He has produced works in collaboration with dancers on numerous occasions, most notably with Unset 2.0, an improvisation and audience co-collaborative dance company. As a performer, Brian is committed to diversifying the repertoire of the Classical Guitar, and has performed a solo recital comprised exclusively of minimalist works arranged for the instrument, as well as organized a call for scores for Classical Guitar and Electronics. He performs regularly with Saxophonist Jonathan Hostottle in SANS; duo.

As a professional software engineer, Brian has worked for Facebook on Assistant and Spark AR Player as well as for AmazononAudible.com. He additionally spent time in Dr.Howard Ochman's Microbial Evolution Lab, where he was co author of a paper in theJournal Bioinformatics, which discusses classifying prokaryotic species based on gene flow.