Steven Brown

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Head of Sound Design Working Group at OISTAT
Sound Design Curator at Prague Quadrennial 2011
Head of Sound at Royal Exchange Theatre Company

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Steven Brown is a sound designer and soundscape composer best known for his work as a sound designer for theatre. He's worked globally with many leading theatre companies and directors and also 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.

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).

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).