Julia Edith Rigby is an experimental composer and sound artist who thinks about our wild and resonating worlds—the world we inhabit now, and worlds that have come and gone. She is curious about lithic listening and lithic histories, the stories of rocks that have witnessed our collective past and the forces that shaped our planet. She researches ecological entanglements and sense of place, more-than-human architectures and timescales, climate memory and geological listening, planetary histories and resonance, sensory worlds and sense of time. Rigby improvises with pipe organ, prepared piano, viola, stones, infrasound, scientific instrumentation, field recordings, live electronics and moving imagery to take us on a deep dive into deep time and explore questions like: what stories can we learn from the rocks that exist—as they have for millennia--beneath the places we gather? How can listening to rocks help us better understand—and reimagine—the stories of our planet?

What can we collectively learn about our rapidly changing world—and our relationships with other living things, and with ourselves--by finding new ways to think about listening?

And how can listening help us imagine new futures in times of uncertainty?

Julia Edith Rigby (Santa Ana, CA) has performed at 316Centro in CDMX (2025), The Chapel in Seattle (2025), Heidi Duckler Dance in Los Angeles (2024), LEAF Festival in Lafayette, Colorado (2024), LOW End at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska (2023), the Toulouse Theater in New Orleans (2023), Sappyfest in New Brunswick (2024) and the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna, Florida (2023). Her work has been featured twice on Bandcamp’s Best Field Recordings. She is a recipient of artist grants from the LA County Department of Arts and Culture, Arts New Brunswick, the Center for Cultural Innovation and the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Rigby was the Sound Art + Experimental Music Fellow at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska in fall 2023. She has been an artist in residence at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, PLAYA Summer Lake, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, GlogauAIR and others.