Nigel Brown is a sound artist who enjoys delving into the unknown and working within a situation of instability and negotiation. This approach applies across the various contexts in which he works: improvised performance, composition, installation, documentation, design.
Nigel’s improvised sound performances are based on the electro-acoustic treatment of a deconstructed piano accordion. Performances in solo and group settings have occurred in Australia, Asia and Europe, most recently at the Taitung Sound Art Festival (2023).
His sound installations have been exhibited at Tainan Art Museum, Taitung Art Museum, Juming Museum, MOCA Taipei and Madou Sugar Industry Triennial.
Recent post production sound design and mixing includes the award winning ‘Taman-taman’ (TIDF, IDFA) directed by SO Yo-hen (Your Bros. Filmmaking Group), ‘Rainbow Video’ (MDFF) directed by Jessie Scott, narrative feature films by Stefan Libiot and video art by Kay Walkowiak (Kunstforum Wien, The Leopold Museum). Nigel was also the sound designer for podcast series, The Big Trip, and created a custom sound installation for the project at Think & Tink, Kuching, Malaysia.
As a sound designer for theatre and dance Nigel specialises in the integration of sound in complex physical environments. Recent collaborations include ‘Hundred’s & Thousands’ by Daniel Kok and Luke George for the National Gallery of Singapore, and a theatre work for children, ‘One Page Forest’, by Double Cross.
In 2016 he relocated from Melbourne, Australia, to Tainan, Taiwan to establish Ting Shuo Hear Say with Alice Hui-Sheng Chang. Ting Shuo Studio is a space for the promotion of listening practice and experimental music and regularly hosts resident artists to undertake research and presentations in Tainan. As part of the 2023 Taipei Biennial Music Room, Ting Shuo curated a ten-day program of musicians and events, culminating in an exhibition of recordings and documentation.
A graduate of RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia (BA(Media Arts), MFA), he has facilitated workshops for young people at ArtPlay (Australia), Ting Shuo Studio (Taiwan) Binaural Media (Portugal) and 1983 (Hong Kong) and given talks and workshops at higher education institutions in Australia and Taiwan.
Contact: brown.nigel@gmail.com