Previous Speakers


Susanne Abbuehl — singer, ECM recording artist April and composer (Netherlands)


Catherine Alexander — theatre director, actor, teacher (UK)


Dede Allen — film editor, Bonnie & Clyde, Dog Day Afternoon (video interview) (USA)


John Akomfrah – filmmaker, artist (UK)


Prof. Rick Altman – writer, Silent Film Sound (USA)


Kristian Selin Eidnes Andersen sound designer, composer (Denmark)


Martin Stig Andersen – games sound designer (Denmark)


Louis Andriessen — composer and pianist, De Staat, De Tijd, De Snelheid (Netherlands)


Mick Audsley — film editor, Twelve Monkeys, Dangerous Liaisons (UK)


Ain Bailey — sound artist, DJ (UK)


Dickie Beau – mime artist (UK)


Nicolas Becker – Foley artist, sound designer (France)


Ray Beckett — sound recordist, A Room With A View, Ae Fond Kiss (UK)


Honor Beddard — curator at Wellcome Collection (UK)


Frank Behnke — sound designer and recordist, England, Run Lola Run (Germany)


Alex Berner – film editor, Cloud Atlas, Perfume, Jupiter Ascending (Germany)


Dr. Jennifer Bizley – neuroscientist (UK)


Michèle Bokanowski — composer, Déjeuner du Matin, l’Ange, la Plage (France)


Boncheol Goo — composer (South Korea)


Joëlle Bouvier — choreographer and filmmaker (France)


Alison Bown — sound designer, musician, North and South, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkhaban video game (UK)


Neil Brand — silent film accompanist, radio playwright (UK)


Terry Braun — producer and multimedia consultant (UK)


John Broomhall — musician, sound designer, writer and arranger for games (UK)


Prof. Ross Brown – writer, theatre sound designer & composer (UK)


Carter Burwell — Hollywood composer, Barton Fink, Fargo, Rob Roy (USA)


Prof. David Burnand — musician, composer and lecturer, Gallivant (UK)


Werner Cee — sound artist, composer (Germany)


Michael Chanan — documentary filmmaker and lecturer (UK)


Shoma Chatterji — film critic and writer (India)


Michel Chion — theorist, composer and director, Audio-Vision (France)


Andrew Chitty — producer, Illumina Ltd (UK)


Prof. Ian Christie — film historian and broadcaster, The Last Machine (UK)


Karen Collins — game designer, sound designer, writer, researcher (Canada)


Prof. Steven Connor — academic and broadcaster, Dumbstruck: A History of Ventriloquism (UK)


David Cooper — advertising commercials sound mixer, Levi’s 501s, Orange (UK)


Gustavo Costantini — musician and sound designer (Argentina)


Andy Cowton — composer and sound designer, Long Road to Mazatlan, Still Life with Small Cup (UK)


Roger Crittenden — editor & writer, The Art of European Editing (UK)


Baha-uddin Dagar — musician (India)


Mychael Danna — film composer (Canada)


Paul Davies — sound designer, Ratcatcher, Morvern Caller (UK)


Siobhan Davies – choreographer (UK)


Andrew Deakin — musician, composer, sound artist (UK)


Daniel Deshays – sound recordist, sound director & music producer (France)


Dogme Sound Team:


          Morten Holm — sound engineer, Festen (Denmark)


          Soren Bjerregaard-Ryan — sound engineer, Dancer in the Dark (Denmark)


          Rune Palving – sound recordist/editor, Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself, Italian for Beginners (Denmark)


Prof. Stephen Deutsch — composer and lecturer, Hard Times (UK)


David Drake — multimedia consultant, South West Arts (UK)


Gerhard Eckel — composer and researcher in audio perception (Austria/Germany)


Manfred Eicher — record producer ECM records (Germany)


Rana Eid – sound designer, filmmaker (Lebanon)


Tessa Elliott — producer and director of computer mediated installations (UK)


Paz Encina — director, Hamaca Paraguaya (Paraguay)


Matteo Fargion – performer (UK)


Leslie Felperin — assistant editor, Sight and Sound (UK)


Mike Figgis — director, writer, musician and composer, Leaving Las Vegas, Time Code (UK)


Tom Fleischman — sound mixer, Goodfellas, The Aviator (USA)


Dick Fontaine — filmmaker, Head of Documentary Directing NFTS (UK)


Prof. Sir Christopher Frayling — writer, historian, educator, critic, broadcaster (UK)


Fred Frith — songwriter, composer, Orlando, The Tango Lesson (UK)


Dr. Kersten Glandien — writer, lecturer, aesthetician (Germany)


Heiner Goebbels — music theatre director and composer, Hashirigaki (Germany)


Keith Griffiths — producer Illuminations Films, Street of Crocodiles, Institute Benjamenta, The Falconer’s Tale, Memoria, Berberian Sound Studio (UK)


Prof. Tim Griffiths — professor of Cognitive Neurology, Univ of Newcastle upon Tyne (UK)


Oscar Grillo — animator (video presentation) Men in Black (Argentina)


Michael Grigsby — documentary director, Lockerbie — A Night Remembered (UK)


Heidi Grundmann — critic and radio producer (Austria)


Mike Gunton — television producer, BBC Natural History Unit (UK)


Graham Hadfield — composer (UK)


Alan Hall — independent radio producer, William Thompsons IV’s War (UK)


Mark Hall — animation producer, co-founder Cosgrove Hall Productions (UK)


Graham Hartstone — re-recording mixer, Blade Runner, Aliens, Eyes Wide Shut (UK)


Maike Helmers – film editor, lecturer Bournemouth University (Germany)


Nigel Helyer — sound artist & sculptor (Australia)


Julian Henriques — filmmaker, writer, researcher (UK)


Mike Hodges — director, Get Carter, Croupier (UK)


Tomlinson Holman — inventor THX surround sound system (USA)


George Home-Cook — theatre practitioner-researcher and lecturer (UK)


Peter Howell — composer, sound designer, BBC Radiophonic Workshop (UK)


Pat Jackson — sound editor & editor, The Talented Mr Ripley, Jarhead (USA)


Trevor Jones — composer, Excalibur, Missippi Burning, Notting Hill (UK)


Isaac Julien — artist filmmaker, Turner prize nominee (UK)


Gaston Kaboré — filmmaker, writer, educator, Wend Kuuni, (Burkina Faso)


Jo Ann Kaplan — filmmaker, editor, artist, Body of Work, (USA)


Andre Katori — producer, musician & designer with AudioRom (UK)


Mani Kaul — filmmaker, musician and painter, Drupad, Siddeshwari (India)


Patrick Keiller — architect and filmmaker, London, Robinson in Space (UK)


Adele Kellett — sound designer at Electronic Arts (UK)


Prof. Andrew King — Professor of Neurophysiology, Oxford University (UK)


Richard King — film sound designer (US)


Ren Klyce — Hollywood sound designer, Panic Room, Fight Club, Se7en (USA)


Gideon Koppel — filmmaker, artist & lecturer, Sleep Furiously (UK)


Andrew Kötting — filmmaker and multimedia artist, Gallivant, Ivul and Swandown (UK)


Sarah Kozloff — lecturer and writer, Overhearing Film Dialogue (USA)


Bernie Krause musician, author, soundscape recordist and bio-accoustician (USA)


Prof Morten Kringelbach Professor of neuroscience at Universities of Oxford Aarhus (Denmark)


Ann Kroeber — sound recordist and designer, Black Stallion, Blue Velvet, Duma (USA)


Peter Kubelka — avant-garde filmmaker and cook (Austria)


Christina Kubisch — sound installation artist (Germany)


Jerzy Kucia — master animator, Tuning Instruments (Poland)


Hans Peter Kuhn — composer and artist (Germany)


Valérie Lalonde — pioneer documentary filmmaker (France)


Nathan Larson — musician and composer, Lilja 4-Ever, Dirty Pretty Things (USA)


Bob Last — music supervisor and producer, Orlando, House of Mirth (UK)


Nick Laviers — Head of Music, Electronic Arts (UK)


Richard Leacock — pioneer documentary filmmaker (UK/US/France)


James Leahy — film historian, critic and screenwriter (UK)


Prof. Bernhard Leitner – architect, composer, artist (Austria)


Claude Letessier — sound designer, The Thin Red Line, (France)


Skip Lievsay — Hollywood sound editor/designer, Goodfellas, Age of Innocence (USA)


Kim Longinotto — documentary filmmaker, Divorce Iranian Style, Sisters in Law (UK)


David Lynch — director (video interview), Twin Peaks, Lost Highway (USA)


Lucrecia Martel — director, La Ciénaga, La Niña Santa (Argentina)


Simon McBurney — Co-Founder and Artistic Director, Théâtre du Complicité (UK)


Peter Middleton — producer, director, Notes on Blindness (UK)


Jake Milton — jazz musician and composer (UK)


Mark Milton — mentor and advisor in self-leadership and governance, founder of Education 4 Peace (Switzerland)


Nadim Mishlawi – composer, filmmaker (Lebanon)


Anthony Moore — composer and sound artist (Germany)


Gillian Moore, MBE — writer, broadcaster, Head of Contemporary Culture, South Bank Centre, London (UK)


Joe Moran – choreographer, dancer (UK)


Kaye Mortley — 
independent radio documentary maker (France)


Prof. Laura Mulvey — filmmaker, writer and lecturer, Riddles of the Sphinx (UK)


Steve Munro — sound designer, Exotica, The Sweet Hereafter (Canada)


Walter Murch — editor, sound designer, Cold Mountain, Apocalpse Now (USA)


François Musy — sound designer/mixer for Jean-Luc Godard (video interview) (France)


Rie Nakajima — sound artist (Japan / UK)


Rosalind Nashashibi — filmmaker, painter, Turner Prize nominee 2017 (UK)


Walter Newman — supervising sound editor, ER, The West Wing (USA)


Su Nicholls-Gärtner — Head of Studies, ifs Köln (Germany)


Mark Nicholson — multimedia artist (UK)


Michael Nyman — composer, The End of the Affair (UK)


Julian Nott — composer, Wallace and Gromit (UK)


Pauline Oliveros — composer (US)


Aki Onda — composer (Japan, US)


Joanna Orland — games sound designer, Sony (UK)


David Ossman — independent radio producer, member of The Firesign Theatre (USA)


Annabelle Pangborn — composer, sound designer (Death of Klinghoffer, Secret Joy), Director Northern Film School (UK)


Phil Parker — screenwriter and lecturer (UK)


Tom Paulin — poet and critic, The Wind Dog (UK)


Neil Peplow — producer, Shooting Fish, Waking Ned (UK)


Chris Petit — novelist and filmmaker, Radio On, The Falconer, (UK)


Roberto Perpignani — editor, Last Tango in Paris, Il Postino (Italy)


Piers Plowright — BBC radio features producer (UK)


Jocelyn Pook — composer, Caravaggio, Eyes Wide Shut (UK)


Chris Pow — mixing tutor National Film and TV School (UK)


Simon Pummell — animation director, Butcher’s Hook, Secret Joy (UK)


The Brothers Quay— animators, Street of Crocodiles, Institute Benjamenta (USA/UK)


Lynne Ramsay — director, Ratcatcher, Morvern Caller (UK)


Mark Rance — producer/director of DVDs (USA)


Paul Gladstone Reid, MBE — composer and musician, Omeros Song Cycle, Vagabondia (UK)


Adrian Rhodes — re-recording mixer, The Queen, Dirty Pretty Things, Chicken Run (UK)


Adam Roberts — writer, filmmaker (UK)


Prof. Paul Robertson — leader of the Medici String Quartet (UK)


Robert Robertson — composer, filmmaker, writer, Einstein on the Audiovisual (UK)


Nick Roeg — director (video interview), Performance, Bad Timing, Walkabout (UK)


Holly Rogers – musician, Senior Lecturer in Music, University of Liverpool (UK)


Patsy Rodenburg — Master Voice and Shakespeare teacher (UK)


Sinéad Rushe — theatre director, actor, coach, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (UK)


Nitin Sawhney — songwriter, composer, DJ, multi-instrumentalist, Spirit Dance (UK)


Scanner (Robin Rimbaud) – composer, plasticien sonore, sonic artist (UK)


Peter Sellars — composer, director of theatre and opera (US)


Seungyon-Seny Lee — composer (South Korea)


Simon Schofield — artist and software designer with AudioRom (UK)


Rina Sherman — documentary filmmaker, ethnographer, photographer (France)


Amie Siegel — writer and filmmaker, The Waking Life, The Sleepers (USA)


Stefan Smith — composer, sound designer (UK)


Phil Solomon — avant-garde filmmaker, installation artist (USA)


Ánde Sonby – Yoiker (Norway)


David Sonneschein – writer, producer, director, sound designer (USA)


Ivo Špalj – foley recordist and sound designer (Czechoslovakia)


James Spinney – filmmaker, Notes on Blindness (UK)


Lauren Stewart — director MSc. Music, Mind & Brain, Goldsmith’s College (UK)


Imogen Stidworthy — artist, To, Dummy, The Whisper Heard, Audio Cab (UK)


Rod Stoneman – Director of the Huston School of Film & Digital Media (Ireland)


Seán Street – writer, radio producer and presenter, poet (UK)


Peter Strickland — filmmaker, Katalin Varga (UK)


Akio Suzuki — sound artist, musician & instrument maker (Japan)


Öve Svennson — sound mixer (video interview) The Sacrifice (Sweden)


Randy Thom — Hollywood sound designer, Forrest Gump, Wild at Heart (USA)


David Toop — musician, composer, sound curator, Sonic Boom (UK)


Sarah Turner — artist filmmaker, lecturer, Ecology, Public House, Perestroika (UK)


Simon Fisher Turner — composer, Caravaggio, Blue, Croupier (UK)


Mark Underwood — film and theatre sound designer, location sound/music engineer (UK)


Steina Vasulka — (video presentation) sound artist and lecturer (Iceland/USA)


Tim Vinesound designer, dubbing mixer (UK)


Thanos Vovolis — theatre and costume designer of masks (Greece)


Peter Vuust — jazz musician, scientist (music and the brain) (Denmark)


Rob Walker — re-recording mixer, sound designer (UK)


Judith Walcutt — independent radio producer (USA)


Marina Warner — novelist, mythographer, cultural critic, Phantasmagoria (UK)


Chris Watson — natural history sound recordist, Life of Mammals (UK)


Jim Webb — sound recordist, All the President’s Men, Nashville, (USA)


Hildegard Westerkamp — composer, radio artist, sound ecologist (Canada)


Gregory Whitehead — sound artist and radiomaker, Wireless Imagination (USA)


Rodney Wilson — producer, Sound on Film (UK)


Peter Wollen — filmmaker, film scholar, Signs and Meaning in Cinema (UK/USA)


Anne Wood — producer of childrens’ television, Teletubbies (UK)


Jon Wozencroft — Managing Editor of Touch and lecturer (UK)


Dr. Laura Wright — sociolinguist (UK)


Gabriel Yared — composer, Sauve Qui Peut La Vie, Cold Mountain (Lebanon)


Youngjun Seo — sound editor and re-recording mixer (South Korea)


Amos Zamorski — multimedia sound designer UK)


Prof. Siegfried Zielinski — writer and lecturer (Germany)