Steven Brown is a sound designer and soundscape composer. He is best known for his work as a sound designer for theatre, having worked globally with many leading theatre companies, directors and also as Head of Sound for The Royal Exchange Theatre Company, Manchester , UK. Steven recently curated and designed the sound design section of Collaborators: Design for Performance exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum , London and was also Sound Design Project Head for Scenofest at the 2007 Prague Quadrennial.

Steven is currently Sound Design Curator for the Prague Quadrennial 2011, Head of The Sound Design Working Group for Organisation Internationale des Scénographes, Techniciens et Architectes de Théâtre (OISTAT), Head of Sound for The Royal Exchange Theatre Company and a Committee Member for The Society of British Theatre Designers (SBTD).

Steven was recently awarded an Honorary Fellowship from Rose Bruford College.

As Listen Hear Sound Projects he explores sound art, sound design, soundscape composition, phonography and audio ecology through many commissions and projects whilst working both as a collaborator and in his own right. He has recently collaborated with Steam Control ('Why Won't You Tell Me?' - National Film Theatre/ Sassoon Gallery) and was commissioned by Dody Nash (Listening Shell installation - Victoria & Albert Museum ).

In recent years he has presented his work and ideas at many Universities, Institutions and Conferences including, Yale and Purdue Universities in the USA , the United States Institute of Theatre Technology at conferences, in Toronto , Louisville and Houston, Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, Rose Bruford College , Vereniging voor Podiumtechnologie (VPT) in The Netherlands and PLASA UK.

"The first thing you notice about this revival of Githa Sowerby’s 1912 play is Steve Brown’s superb design. It begins with an eerie, high-pitched singing, like a wet fingertip run around the rim of a wineglass, followed by a deep rasping, reminiscent of breath across the neck of a bottle. Finally, there’s the tinkling shiver of glass smashed into fragments. It is intriguingly menacing.”

Sam Marlow, The Times, Rutherford & Son

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