Brian Harnetty (born May 10, 1973) is an American interdisciplinary artist, composer, and musician who uses sound and listening to foster social change.

[1] His work brings together sound archives, performance, ecology, and place, and is focused on local and regional issues of Appalachia and the Midwest.

[8] His process has been compared to "working like a novelist...to create a new text, breathing new life into old chunks of sound by radically recontextualising them.

[13] These projects reflect the history, landscape, and people of the region, and offer listening methods as a means to enact social change.

The work’s themes include energy extraction, inequitable economies, environmental degradation and recovery, land use, and divisions between rural and urban people.