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acoustic ecologist

DAVID DUNN is a composer and sound artist whose work has spanned traditional and experimental music, wildlife sound recordings, installations for public exhibitions, video and film soundtracks, radio broadcasts, and bioacoustic research.Dunn is the recipient of a variety of awards and grants (for music, scholarly research and scientific research) including multiple grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (3), the Rockefeller Foundation (3), Langlois Foundation (2), McCune Foundation (2), Ford Foundation, Tides Foundation, New Mexico Arts Division, various Meet the Composer grants (4), Delle Foundation, and academic research grants. He is the composer of 56 major music compositions for various media, author/editor of 5 books and over 50 academic and theoretical publications in major journals, with translations into seven foreign languages.

Since 1973 he has given over 500 concert performances, lectures and radio broadcasts in North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Australia. He has over 100 additional international recording credits on LPs, CDs, the internet, exhibitions, films and video soundtracks. Dunn actively records, composes, teaches, and presents his work internationally. He serves as President of the Art and Science Laboratory in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and is a researcher for the Institute for Conservation Studies and a board member of the Acoustic Ecology Institute.

*photo by Kate Russell