Mike Vernusky creates music for live performance, radiophonic sound, and audiovisual experiences.

His music is described as “brash” (The New York Times), “isolationist” (The Wire),  and “especially otherworldly” (New Music USA). He has just been selected as a 2025-2026 Creative Artist Fellow with the Japan-US Friendship Commission, where he will be living in Kyoto and completing a new ensemble work for shakuhachi, early Japanese instruments, and field recordings with electronic sound.

Mike is an avid field recordist, having recorded calving glaciers in the high arctic, relentless chainsawing in the Amazon to the snake charmers of Marrakech; from the beautiful cacophony that is India to the deadly hippo pools in South Africa. Combining electronic and traditional instruments, field recordings, and found sounds across various forms of physical media, he creates large-scale, often transcontinental musical works and releases them in album format.

Vernusky has presented his music and ideas at Shanghai Conservatory, İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Institut Français Tokyo, Salon Alte Schmiede in Vienna, El Centro para la Música y las Artes Sonoras in Mexico, Harvard University, and The University of Huddersfield. 

His music is published on BBC Audio, MIT Press, The Wire, NEUS-318 (JP), Ferns Recordings (FR), Audiobulb (UK), Quiet Design (TX), and many other imprints.
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Mike Vernusky lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, percussionist & figure skater Carolyn Trowbridge. After 16 years of living a double life as an independent artist and Experience Analyst for Apple, he is currently a freelance composer for mixed media.