| Steven
Brown is a sound designer
and soundscape composer.
As Listen Hear Sound
Projects he explores sound design, soundscape composition 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).
He is best known for his work
as a sound designer for theatre, having worked globally with many leading theatre companies and directors
and as Head of Sound for The Royal Exchange Theatre Company, Manchester,
UK during a career that has
spanned more than twenty years. 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.
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 and the Vereniging voor
Podiumtechnologie (VPT) in The Netherlands.
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, Manchester and a Committee Member for The
Society of British Theatre Designers (SBTD). |
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