Augustine Leudar is a sonic artist, known for unorthodox and anarchic soundscapes and ambient music. Leudar frequently cites the natural world as an important source of inspiration.
Leudar was born in the UK and started working with sound in the late 1980s. Throughout the 1990s Leudar pursued a more experimental and electronic direction, and released several works some of which were featured on John Peel's BBC Radio 1 show.
His music taken an increasingly more experimental and naturalistic direction, since spending half the time living in the forests and dustbowls of the Peruvian Amazon. Soundscapes created in Peru were featured at Pragues' national gallery, the Rudolfinum in 2006, as part of the Impresse exhibition and accompanied the paintings of Czech painter Otto Placht. Recent work included the largest sound-art installation in the world at the tropical Biome at the Eden Project in Cornwall. He also runs a radio show called "Through The Looking Glass" for The Future sounds of Calstock (Cornwall).
He has recorded under several pseudonyms including Dreamworld and the Mutant Mirrors.
Leudar is a keen practitioner of judo, training up to six times each week.