Hunter Brown is a Berlin-based musician and sound artist whose experimental practice explores the intersection of digital simulacra and human sonic perception. His work investigates how digital sonic representation, the materiality of digital audio systems, and the computational abstraction of sound shape auditory experience. This technologically driven approach centers on custom software incorporating unconventional analysis and synthesis algorithms, machine learning and listening, psychoacoustic phenomena, and spatial audio techniques.
Improvisation is a central element of Hunter’s practice. He regularly performs using his Laptop Improvisation Instrument, a custom tool developed in the Supercollider programming language. He is actively involved in several improvisation-based projects, including Technical Reserve (with Dominic Coles and TJ Borden), Other Plastics (with Dominic Coles), Clout (with Jakob Heinemann), and the Brown/Wong Duo (with Eric Wong).
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 Petersburg Arts Space (Berlin).
In addition to his artistic practice, Hunter is a freelance audio engineer, serves as the technical director for Ensemble Dal Niente, and co-runs the record label Party Perfect!!! with collaborator Dominic Coles. He has also taught courses in electronic music at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the University of Chicago.