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Seth Warren-Crow is a sound designer and composer for theatre, dance, performance art, and digital media. He received a MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College in California. Seth is Assistant Professor of Sound Design and Associate Head of Design for the School of Theatre and Dance at Texas Tech University. He was the Musical Director for the Department of Dance at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee from 2009-2013. Seth's sound design combines field recordings, samples from film and other media, and voice to create intricate and uncanny soundscapes. Seth's sound design and composition for dance has been featured at such venues as La Mama Experimental Theatre Club (NY), The Harlem Stage eMoves Festival (NY), The Milwaukee Ballet (WI), the Coco Dance Festival (Trinidad and Tobago), and The American Dance Festival (NC). Seth frequently collaborates with performance artist Heather Warren-Crow as warren-crow+warren-crow. Some of their notable performances include The Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design & Space (Czech Republic), World Stage Design (Taiwan), The Porsgrunn International Theater Festival (Norway), Diapason gallery (New York), the Soundwalk Festival (CA), and an artist residency at The Museum of Performance + Design in San Francisco (CA). Seth's research interests include sound design for theatre, electronic and electro-acoustic music composition; sound design in non-traditional spaces, devised theatre, practices and theories of sound art; experimental and improvisatory music (jazz, free improvisation); collaboration across the arts; performance and emerging technologies; site-specific performance; intercultural performance; Western and non-Western music history; and radio production. Seth is a member of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT), The International Organisation of Scenographers, Theatre Architects and Technicians (OISTAT), and The International Guild of Musicians In Dance (IGMID).