Stephen W Tayler

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Stephen Tayler is a music producer and mixing engineer, sound designer and composer, currently specialising in multimedia projects.

Stephen grew up studying and performing music professionally, and spent three years at the Royal College of Music in London. He started his career in the recording industry at the legendary Trident Studios in London, reaching the position of chief engineer in three years. He went on to become freelance, and has since worked around the world on numerous high profile music projects.

Stephen has recorded and mixed in excess of 200 albums, as well as scores of singles and remixes.

He has also mixed numerous live concerts for CD, video and TV, and more recently DVD.

In 1990 he travelled the world with the BBC production ‘One World One Voice’ which recorded and filmed over 400 musicians on location, which he helped to compile into a one hour TV special using pioneering studio techniques.

With musical/production collaborator Sadia Sadia he formed the global multimedia outfit Equa which has written, performed and recorded for CDs, film soundtracks, ballet and installations. Most recently Equa wrote the score for the film 'The Noon Gun'.

He is now involved with film/video arts and post-production as a composer, sound designer, music mixer and editor, foley artist, camera operator and assistant editor. He has also mixed for surround and authored DVDs.

Stephen was an early adopter of digital audio techniques, and has much experience of Pro Tools and Digital Performer for music recording and production, Photoshop for images, Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro for film and video.

He specialises in playing wind instruments, and also plays keyboards and guitars.

A small selection of the artists Stephen has worked with: Suzanne Vega, Peter Gabriel, Underworld, Teitur, Duncan Sheik, Howard Jones, Stevie Nicks, Rush, Bob Geldof, Rupert Hine, Sting, Lou Reed, Tina Turner, Thomas Anders.

European and world artists: Éric Serra, Les Négresses Vertes, Noa (Achinoam Nini), Khadja Nin, Claudio Baglioni, Renato Zero

Stephen has worked at studios in: London, Paris, Rome, Milan, Bologna, New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, Montreal, Mumbai, Dublin, Helsinki, Rio de Janeiro, Amsterdam...... also on location in: Tanzania, Brazil, Russia, France, Italy, Spain, USA, Canada, the UK and Ireland.