Douglas Quin

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Douglas Quin, Ph.D., is a world-renowned sound designer and naturalist. Quin’s soundscape compositions and music have been performed at numerous festivals and venues including Merkin Hall, The Kitchen, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Spoleto Festival USA, and Venice International Performance Art Week. He is the recipient of numerous awards and grants from the Ars Acustica International prize, the National Endowment for the Arts to multiple fellowships from the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers Program.

Quin’s extensive polar work over more than two decades includes the recordings Antarctica and Fathom. He was commissioned by Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln to create a live satellite sound art project broadcast from Antarctica at the millennium. In 2011, he was commissioned to compose Polar Suite for the award-winning Kronos Quartet featuring soundscapes and interactive electronics. Other polar oriented work includes a fellowship at the National Film and Sound Archive Australia and Liquid Architecture Sound Art Festival and Tour 13: Antarctic Convergence (2012). Among his film credits, Quin created the sound design for and mixed Werner Herzog’s Academy Award–nominated documentary film about Antarctica, Encounters at the End of the World as well as Under Antarctic Ice, a documentary for the PBS Nature series. He has also worked on audio exhibits with a polar focus for the American Museum of Natural History and the Polish Academy of Sciences, among others. Quin has and continues to collaborate with scientists including co-authoring a study of Weddell seal vocalisations which was published in Polar Biology.

He teaches in the Television, Radio & Film Department at the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.

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