David Chesworth (born 1958, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom) is an Australian-based interdisciplinary artist, composer and sound designer.
Known for his conceptual, and at times, minimalist music, he has worked solo, in post-punk groups (Essendon Airport, Whadya Want?
[3] Chesworth's creative output includes music, sound art, video, installation and performance, often in collaboration with other artists.
In 2012 he was artist in residence at the MONA Festival of Art and Music in Hobart which featured performances by the David Chesworth Ensemble and artworks made with collaborator Sonia Leber.
[7] Through Innocent Records, a label he co-founded with Philip Brophy, he released solo records that playfully deconstruct cultural tropes, including 50 Synthesizer Greats and Layer on Layer, and with the group Essendon Airport – Sonic Investigations of the Trivial and Palimpsest, and Whadya Want?
Other Leber and Chesworth projects include We, The Masters, a sound installation for Melbourne City Square, commissioned by Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), We Are Printers Too,[10] a 'speculative and archaeological' video set in the former Age Newspaper building in Melbourne.
Leber and Chesworth were the 2007 recipients of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art's Helen Macpherson Smith Commission, for which they created the major installation work Almost Always Everywhere Apparent.
Chesworth studied at La Trobe University, including time with composers Jeff Pressing, Warren Burt and Graham Hair.