Dan O’Connor is an artist, trumpet player, and mastering engineer based in Boorloo/Perth, Western Australia. He has performed nationally in touring shows and series including Outcome Unknown (Perth), Make it up Club (Melbourne), Tempe Nights (Sydney), and at Audible Edge International Festival of Exploratory Music (Perth). He has also performed internationally in Tokyo, Japan and Hamburg, Germany.

As an artist O’Connor is foremost an improvising trumpet player collaborating regularly with Perth musicians including Josten Myburgh, Eduardo Cossio, Djuna Lee, Sage Pbbbt, and Ben Greene. He has also performed with Jim Denley, Shoshana Rosenberg, Xavier Charles (France), Christian Windfeld (Denmark), Eric Normand (Canada), Craig Pedersen, Elizabeth Millar (Canada), Keith Tippet (UK), Anne LeBaron (USA), Birgit Ulher (Germany), and Eric Normand (Canada)

In 2020 O’Connor opened mastering studio ENCODER Sound having been fascinated with both the record making and listening processes for the entirety of his music career. ENCODER Sound masters music for the creative musicians of Perth and Australia. With a focus on Perth’s independent, alternative and experimental music scene. The ENCODER Sound ethos is based in artistic integrity and high fidelity. Projects flowing through ENCODER Sound in 2021 include work by Nika Mo, orphans, Plyanci, and Sounding Together.

O’Connor is embedded in the Perth exploratory music scene through the co-founding of record label Tone List in 2016—now with over 30 releases from Australian artists. Owing to consistent involvement and experience in experimental music O’Connor has been an expert judge for annual industry awards events the West Australian Music Song of the Year and West Australian Music Awards from 2017–19. O’Connor holds a Bachelor of Music with First Class Honours from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) and has researched at the Doctorate level at The University fo Western Australia—his research focused on practise processes for improvised music-making.