TAYLOR KIRK

AURAL AND VISUAL DESIGNER

www.sensaidesign.com www.collabnart.org
(817) 240-6656 3501 Speedway #207 Austin, TX 78751 taylorkirk123@gmail.com

Education
Bachelor of Arts in Theatre and Dance | University of Texas at Austin | 2011 |

Design Work
-2012Wanderlust (Contracted) -Collaboration with choreographer Michelle Parkins dealing with physical vs. virtual travel. I will be creating visual and sonic media using skype, the Microsoft Kinect, and the GoPro HD Hero 2 camera. |AZALA Space | Lasierra, Spain.| Tiny Earthquake -Created an electronic music composition in collaboration with choreographer Michelle Parkins dealing with the affect of seizures and the possible connection lying between seizures and seismic activity.| Ears, Eyes, and Feet | B. Iden Payne Theatre | Austin, Tx | Bacha Bazi -Sound design for new play by award winning playwright Gabriel Dean. A story investigating the bacha bazi (boy play) tradition in Afghanistan and its affects on the culture and the human condition.| Dir. Gabriel Dean | Oscar Brockett Theatre | Austin, Tx | Lillith -Created the sound score as well as projections using the Microsoft Kinect for a movement piece created in collaboration with Michelle Parkins. The piece deals with computer driven vs. impulse driven movement, and the embodied vs. disembodied life. | B. Iden Payne Theatre | Austin, Tx |

-2011Blood Wedding -Sound Design and Musical Composition for the world-renowned play based on a newspaper fragment that told of a family vendetta and a bride who ran away with the son of the enemy family. | Dir. Michael Floyd | Wondrous Stage Players | Austin, Tx| Tiger -Sound Design and Musical Composition for new play about one familys unstoppable deterioration a blazing slide straight through dysfunction into utter destruction, written by Texas playwright Lisa Westkaemper. | Dir. Alva Hascall | Minerva Arts Center | Williamstown, Ma | The Nomadic Dream Project -Commissioned by Scene-o-fest at The Prague Quadrennial. Created a sound score and performed it live for a performance piece created in collaboration with seven artists from across the country over ten days. The performance piece dealt with travel, and being a foreigner in a specific time and place. | Nomadic Collective | 2011 Prague Quadrennial | Prague, CZ| Once Upon a Time a -Created Projections and Musical Score for a movement piece in collaboration with choreographer Allyson Maranitch. | Ears, Eyes, and Feet | B. Iden Payne Theatre | Austin, Tx | Clybourne Park -Sound Design for play by playwright Bruce Norris. | Dir. Lucien Douglas | The Lab Theatre | Austin, Tx |

Synaisthe -Sound Design and Musical composition created for a movement piece investigating synaisthe and how to bring the same affect to an audience member who does not suffer from the condition. Created in collaboration with local Austin group Auroravore. | Commissioned by The Cohen New Works Festival | Dir. Anne McMeeking | Oscar Brockett Theatre | Austin, Tx | Hades Ladies -Sound Design and Musical Composition for a dance theatre piece dealing with women in the workplace in the 1980s. | Commissioned by The Cohen New Works Festival | Dir. Janna Rock | Oscar Brockett Theatre | Austin, Tx | Dimentia -Designed and created an installation piece that was the beginning of a continuing investigation into how to translate the three-dimensional dynamic quality that live dance has, to a two-dimensional output source. For this specific investigation I used a sculpture of televisions and macro shots of the human form in static as well as moving form. | Commissioned by The Cohen New Works Festival | The Winship Drama Building | Austin, Tx |

-2010Im Not a Writer -Sound Design and Composition for a one woman show based in part on the playwrights childhood growing up in New York City. | Commissioned by the Frontera Festival | Dir. / Playwright La Tasha Stevens | Hyde Park Theatre | Austin, Tx | Fight - Sound Design and Composition for new play by award winning playwright Kimber Lee, about a female boxer and her struggles to reconnect with her father. | Dir. Charles Otte | Oscar Brockett Theatre | Austin, Tx | Rivers of January -Sound Design for new play written by playwright Ben Snyder, about three old friends reuniting in Rio de Janiero under mysterious and dangerous circustances. | Dir. Steve Moulds | University of Texas New Theatre | The Lab Theatre | Austin, Tx| Our Town -Responsible for musical composition and live performance as well as creation and use of live foley throughout the production of Thornton Wilders world-renowned play. | Dir. Marie Brown | Oscar Brockett Theatre | Austin, Tx | My Shadow is Crooked/ Shadowplay -Musical Composition created in collaboration with choreographer Andrea Beckham for a movement piece. | Dance Repertory Theatre | B. Iden Payne Theatre | Austin, Tx | Blue Point - Sound Design for new play by award winning playwright Kyle John Schmidt, about the toxic youth that inhabit a rural community in turn of the millennium Iowa. | Dir. Charles Otte | University of Texas New Theatre | The Lab Theatre | Austin, Tx |

-2009Theres a Boy in the Girls Bathroom -Sound Design and Composition for play based on the book by author Louis Sachar. | Dir. Brian Fahey | Oscar Brockett Theatre | Austin, Tx | La Qute Pour LImmortalit - Musical Composition for a movement piece created in collaboration with choreographer Erica Hui ver the course of two days based upon a set of rules. | Commissioned by the Once Upon a Weekend Festival | The Lab Theatre | Austin, Tx | Phoenix Unforgiven -Sound Design for new play by award winning playwright Martin Zimmerman. Sound score created in collaboration with local cello player Henna Cho. | Commissioned by The Cohen New Works Festival | Dir. Kelly Howe | B. Iden Payne Theatre | Austin, Tx |

Associate/Assistant Design
-2010Junie B. Jones Jingle Bells Batman Smells -Assisted in Sound Design with Oregon based Sound Designer Rob Witmer for Texas premiere of the Barbara Park adapted story by Texas playwright Allison Gregory. | Dir. Steven Deitz | Paramount Theatre | Austin, Tx |

-2009Sextet -Collaborated with Composer Bill Meadows on the musical score for a world premiere dance piece by award winning choreographer Yacov Sharir. | Dance Repertory Theatre | Austin, Tx |

Other Artistic Work

Freelance Video Jockey -Projection design and live video mixing for local bands in Austin such as Marmalakes, Layalina, Cause In Effect, Little Lo and more. Freelance Painter -My paintings have been featured in shows in Austin, Tx and Dallas, Tx. I have been the artist in residency and had my paintings displayed for extended periods of time at both Lava Java, as well as Stella Blue Boutique. I have also been featured on HGTVs Property Brothers. Visual and Aural Designer at Collab N Art | Apr. 2012- Present | -Local Production Company dedicated to working with non profits and developing a new type of performance atmosphere in which all parts are based on collaborations. Visual Artist at Texas Graffiti Wall -Set up and facilitate a virtual graffiti wall for local events. | Feb. 2012- Present |

Co-Creator and Co-Artistic Director at Ransack Repertory | Nov. 2010- Present | -Austin based Theatre Company devoted to creating new performance work created through communal resources. Romulus Ate | Feb. 2010 - Apr. 2011 | - Performance art group consisting of 2 live light operators/designers, 2 live drummers, 5 dancers, 1 singer, and I was responsible for sound design and control as well as playing guitar. Sound Associate at Texas Performing Arts | Mar. 2010-May 2011 | -Load-in, Set up, Run, and Strike traveling shows that come to any of the major theatres on the University of Texas Campus, including the Bass Performance Hall. Activities Director at Texas Design, Tech and Management | Jan. 2011- Aug. 2011 | -Organization dedicated to cultivating and progressing theatrical design, technology, and management on the UT campus and in the city of Austin as a whole.

Skills
Software: Pro Tools | GarageBand | Csound | Cecilia | MaxMSP/ Jitter | Final Cut Pro | QLab | Spear | SoundHack | Ableton Live | Modul8 | Isadora | Cinema 4D | Onyx-VJ | Adobe After Effects | Adobe Photoshop | Adobe Premiere Pro | Soundflower | Torq | Instruments: Guitar | Bass | Mandolin | Ukulele | Harmonica | Piano | Kalimba | Percussion Foley: Design, Build, and Operate Sound Effects Tools for Live or Pre-recorded performance

Other: Live Sound Reinforcement | Studio Recording | Looping-ADR | Basic Electrical Repair | Lighting Design/ Technology | Projection Design/ Technology | Video Design | Basic Computer Programming | Video Editing | Motion Graphics | 3D Modeling/ Animation |

Awards and Recognition

Austin Critics Table Award Nominee (Best Sound Design) | 2010 |

References
Alva Hascall Andrea Beckham Charles Otte Mike Malak Theatre Director and Designer University of Texas Professor / Choreographer University of Texas Professor / Director Audio Supervisor at Texas Performing Arts Hascall@mac.com a.beckham@mail.utexas.edu charlieotte@austin.utexas.edu mmalak@texasperformingarts.org