William Brittelle, a Grammy-winning producer and Grammy-nominated composer, is the embodiment of the Prizma Arts & Research Residency’s mission: an artist who doesn't just inhabit genres but systematically deconstructs them through rigorous, research-driven inquiry. As a co-founder of New Amsterdam Records, Brittelle’s practice aligns seamlessly with BAI's commitment to interdisciplinary experimentation while fostering a collaborative environment. His work as both composer and producer focuses on extending the creative process to it's (il)logical extremes. The resulting sonic landscapes serve as a living laboratory for Prizma’s goal of pushing artistic boundaries. By bridging the gap between high-level composition, multimedia worldforming  and collaborative community building, Brittelle is a vital catalyst for innovation, uniquely positioned to enrich the intellectual and creative ecosystems of the arts at Brown.
www.williambrittelle.com 

From Fall 2022 through Spring 2025, genre-fluid composer and multimedia creator William Brittelle served as a pivotal visiting artist and collaborator with BAI, centering his residency on the evolution of Eternal September, an ambitious, open-ended alternate reality project. His process began with the Fall 2022 Artist@Work course, where he invited students into the hyper-text world-building of a sprawling wiki system and multimedia platform, effectively bridging the gap between professional production and academic inquiry. This collaborative energy culminated in a Spring 2023 Beta Launch Party, an immersive exploration lab at the Granoff Center that blended vaporwave aesthetics, AI generation, and No Wave music into a singular, mythological experience. Throughout 2024 and into 2025, Brittelle’s engagement matured into a hybrid of remote research and intensive on-campus residencies, during which he mentored student fellows and forged deep connections with faculty and the Providence community. By integrating his signature blend of complex formal structures and pop-viscerality into the BAI ecosystem, Brittelle transformed Eternal September from a singular performance piece into a sustained, interdisciplinary dialogue that redefined the role of the visiting artist as a long-term creative partner.

ARTS1015: Nonlinear Worldforming + Digital Tulpamancy

Course Description: This course explored the emergent art of digitally-supported, non-linear worldforming, jointly led by William Brittelle and Sophia LaCava-Bohanan. As a case study, the course examined (and participated in the construction of) Eternal September, an extensive alternate reality of interlocking music, visual art/film, and hypertext being developed by William Brittelle with the support of the Brown Arts Institute and various students, faculty members, and visiting artists. The course was, at its core, exploratory, and focused on discussion, experimentation, and hands-on art-making. Students, whether solo or in small groups, embarked on creative journeys by constructing and sharing their own non-linear worldbuilding projects. Weekly class meetings included seminar discussions, visiting artists, and project development time.

Artist-in-residence teaching this Eternal September-inspired course.

Konami Dream

April 24–26, 2026
Granoff Center for the Creative Arts
154 Angell Street, Providence, RI

An event celebrating the debut of Konami Dream, a mid-'90's hacker/rap collective central to the Eternal September world. The event will feature a looping 45-minute "phreque leak" installation, the premiere of multiple "portal videos" and the release of a series of mixtapes featuring various members of the collective, including new tracks from its rival crew.  Features visuals, audio and creative technology by Prof. Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo alongside Brown Univ. students Is Ali, Cassius Hall, Luca Saurez, and guests artists Phong Tran, Rohan Chander, and Andrew Garman. 

William Brittelle (he/him) is a Brooklyn-based GRAMMY-winning producer, GRAMMY-nominated composer and a creator of hyper-text and multimedia. An avid collaborator, Brittelle has worked with a number of artists across multiple disciplines, including Roomful of Teeth, Justin Vernon (Bon Iver), Bryce Dessner (The National), Son Lux, Oneohtrix Point Never, A Far Cry, Lower Dens, Duran Duran, Wye Oak, Dirty Projectors, Kanye West, the Philadelphia Opera, and the Seattle, Baltimore, Indianapolis, Alabama, Grand Rapids and North Carolina Symphony Orchestras, the Basel Sinfonietta, the Nu Deco Ensemble, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. His most recent full-length LP entitled Spiritual America featuring Wye Oak, the Metropolis Ensemble, and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, was released by Nonesuch/New Amsterdam in 2019. Prior releases were profiled on NPR's All Things Considered and in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, MUSO, The Nation, and The New Yorker.

Brittelle's work has been presented at venues across the world, including the Hollywood Bowl and Disney Hall in Los Angeles, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, BAM and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Kennedy Center, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Da Camera in Houston, Seattle's Town Hall, the Kahserne in Switzerland, the Freemantle Arts Center in Perth, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Recently, his work has focused increasingly on complex collaborative networks and interlinked text and multimedia, a trend culminating in the launch of Eternal September, a vast digital alternate reality artistic platform developed in partnership with the Brown Arts Institute and the Metropolis Ensemble. Additional partners include the Cincinnati Symphony, the Walker Art Center, Liquid Music, and the Great Northern Festival. (More info and full list of collaborating artists here.) Additional presenters of Brittelle's multimedia works include the Palm Springs Art Museum, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Chelsea Art Museum.

Increasingly active as a producer, upcoming and recent projects include albums with Ted Hearne/The Crossing/Bakudi Scream, Alex Temple/Julia Holter/Spektral Quartet, Metropolis Ensemble/Wye Oak, Jodie Landau, the string ensemble Owls, Aditya Prakash, Molly Joyce, Kaoru Watanabe and Erika Dohi. Roomful of Teeth's 2023 album Rough Magic garnered Brittelle a GRAMMY award as producer (BEST SMALL ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE) and a nomination as composer (BEST CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL COMPOSITION).

Along with composers Judd Greenstein and Sarah Kirkland Snider, Brittelle is the co-founder and co-artistic director of New Amsterdam Records, a GRAMMY-winning non-profit pro-artist record label and artist service organization with a catalog of over 120 releases. He also serves as house producer for Figureight Recordings, a renowned Brooklyn-based studio owned and founded by Shahzad Ismaily. Brittelle has been the recipient of grants and awards from the National Endowment of the Arts, American Music Center, American Composers Forum, the Jerome Foundation, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, NYSCA, and ASCAP. He formerly served on the faculty of The New School in New York City, developing and teaching courses in Genre-fluid Music and the Ethos of Punk, and has guest lectured at Juilliard, the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, Duke University, Vanderbilt University, University of Wisconsin, University of Maryland, Oberlin, USC, and the Cork Academy of Music. Since 2022, Brittelle has served as an artist-in-residence with Brown Arts Institute, centering his residency on the evolution of Eternal September and teaching multiple Artist@Work courses. In 2026 he was named an inaugural artist of BAI's Prizma Arts & Research Residency.

The Prizma Arts and Research Residency program brings your favorite artists' favorite artists to Brown’s campus: Artists whose influence far exceeds their visibility, are the secret engines of contemporary practice and whose work sparks the imagination of entire fields.