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www.marcusebrown.com
BIO
DR. Brownsounds aka Marcus E. Brown is a New Orleans Sound performance artist, sculptor, painter, etc. Marcus was born and raised New Orleans, LA. Marcus E. Brown attended high school at New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA) where he studied Visual Arts and became known as a passionate young artist. After five years of intense training at the Kansas City Art Institute, Marcus built a reputation as a prolific visual artist, gallery director, educator, and musician.
Marcus aka DrBrownSounds performs with a various assortment of homemade electronic instruments. Marcus started his performance career by playing his unique sound objects and instruments in Kansas City, MO at the Kansas City Art institute. Marcus Brown developed as a sound artist by making sculptural electronic instruments', as well as performing on campus and in the Kansas City Area with local DJs and hip-Hop artists at clubs.
Marcus is an educator, gallery director, photographer and painter. In addition to showing at dozens of galleries nation wide, Marcus also has taught art education at the k-12 level as well as college art classes across the nation. Dr. Brownsounds has performed with various artists such as Tyrone Brown, Tommy Lift, Bill Summers, Chuck Barber, Signal Path, and Norman Sylvester. Marcus is also a prolific painter who developed a form of painting called Electrosonic Painting in which the artist paints with an amplified brush or tool used to create a fine work of art as well as a work of sound or music at the same time. Dr. Brown has collaborated with many talented musicians throughout the process of creating Electrosonic painting.
After evacuating from New Orleans in august of 2005 due to hurricane Katrina, Marcus and his new wife relocated to Portland, OR where he now lives and practices.
Age
29
Hometown
New Orleans,LA
Country
United States