As a sound designer and composer, Theo Teichman's work focuses on how sound creates and evokes the feeling of a place and its particular qualities, materialities, and ephemera. Through experimental field recording, layered textures, duration and silence, and complex cyclical structures, his practice engages the visceral materiality of embodied sound through a post-human and hauntological perspective on environmental and ecological listening.
He graduated with honors from Carnegie Mellon University, earning a Bachelor of Science and Arts in Neurobiology and Music Composition with a focus on experimental sonic practices and soundscape composition. At Carnegie Mellon, he was awarded the String Quartet Composition Award, the Henry Armero Award for Inclusive Creativity, the Undergraduate Environmental Research Award from the Steinbrenner Institute, and the Gindroz Prize, among other honors. His work has also been recognized with the National YoungArts Foundation Award of Merit in Music Composition, the Concours Bourges Prize, and inclusion in the Lunar Arts Moon Ark, a cultural capsule on the moon.
Theo furthered his training in soundscape composition through a Fulbright Fellowship at the University of Arts Belgrade, Serbia, and a Leifur Eiriksson Fellowship in Iceland. He has participated in residencies and workshops at STEIM (Amsterdam), Musinfo (Bourges), Sonemus (Sarajevo), Musiikin Aika (Finland), and Orford Musique (Quebec).
As an avid collaborator and interdisciplinary artist, Theo works across media from film to experimental opera to choreography to sound installation.