Hunter Brown is a Chicago-based musician and audio engineer whose experimental practice explores sonic representation, digital materiality, and computational abstraction through composition, improvisation, and performance. His work often foregrounds a technologically driven approach, employing unconventional analysis and synthesis algorithms, machine learning, artificial intelligence, machine listening, psychoacoustics, and spatial audio. Hunter's projects have recently focused on the connections between human sonic perception, machine listening, and digital artifice.
Hunter’s work has been presented internationally at festivals, conferences, universities, and venues such as Big Ears (Knoxville), Conference on AI Music Creativity (Graz), Darmstädter Ferienkurse (Darmstadt), Experimental Sound Studio (Chicago), Festival Nueva Ópera (Buenos Aires), Hundred Years Gallery (London), International Computer Music Conference (Daegu), International Workshop on Multilayer Music Representation and Processing (Milan), IRCAM Manifeste (Paris), Lobe 4DSOUND (Vancouver), and Petersberg Arts Space (Berlin).
He is a freelance audio engineer specializing in contemporary classical, improvised, and electroacoustic music. He serves as the technical director for Ensemble Dal Niente and co-runs the record label Party Perfect!!! with collaborator Dominic Coles. Hunter has taught electronic music production and composition at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the University of Chicago.