Josh Carrigan is a songwriter, composer, and sound designer living in Philadelphia. His output contains trace elements of musique concrete, electronic surplus, percussion ensemble, birdsong, squidchant, granular sweetjazz, drone maps, backwoods radiophony, and ethnic pop classics from Seoul to Memphis, weaving vivid tapestries of abstract tone, folk images, polyrhythms, and off-kilter vibration. A fervent reel-wrapper, Josh has created hundreds of multichannel cassette pieces that span collage, loops, field recordings, ditties, and textures. These tape compositions are reanimated in live performances featuring voices, microphones, electric guitar, synths, prepared lap steel, cello bows, amplified objects, CD players, radio signals, electronic signal processors, vinyl words, discount fireworks, and the ambient environment.

In recent years, Josh has toured the U.S. as a solo performer and a member of Kegs of Acid, American Hornets, Raccoonicorns, Robador, Cassette Concrete, and Ushuaia. He has engineered a unique large-scale “performance enclave” featuring sign language interpreters, movement sensors, magnetic dogs, and videos of underwater kites (searching for a venue), and performs entertainment music as Henry Shine. To fund these musical activities and ensure uninterrupted sound production, Josh has worked as an audio engineer, radio producer, industrial welder, chef, and academic administrator. He currently works and studies the telematic micropoetry of business administration at the University of Pennsylvania.