David Sheppard – Sound Designer

David Sheppard is a sound designer whose work has taken him across the world and across genres, collaborating with many leading orchestras and ensembles as well as rock and pop musicians, visual artists, dance and film creatives. He works closely with composers on helping them realize their ideas but he is also known as a sound installation artist and electronics performer in his own right.  His work has recently included operas in London, Lyon and Dublin, helicopters in Paris, and a former Nazi submarine-base in Bordeaux. He often works across art-forms including Mira Calix’s ‘Inside There Falls’ multimedia work for Sydney Festival, Chrstian Marclay at the White Cube, London and collaborations with artist Matthew Ritchie and The National’s Bryce and Aaron Dessner. He has consulted for Anthony Gormley and devised and led learning projects including work with Bjork on her recent Biophillia School.