Stephen Shannon is a composer and music producer who works out of his own studio, Experimental Audio, in Dublin, Ireland. With over 20 years experience in the music industry, he has recorded and mixed and produced dozens of albums for a wide range of genres and artists. He has recorded and released original music as Halfset, Strands and Mount Alaska. In 2023, Stephen composed, recorded and released a solo album made with a string quartet from The Crash Ensemble, entitled Fathoms, which was part funded by an Arts Council Agility Award.

Stephen composes music for film, documentaries and TV. His most recent work includes TV series for Paramount The Ex-Wife and The Castaways. Stephen has composed scores for Claire Dix’s feature film Sunlight, Kim Bartley’s feature documentary Pure Grit and Claire Francis Byrne’s forthcoming film Ready Or Not.

Stephen has also co-composed and performed original live scores for the classic films Night Of The Living Dead, Der Golem, Metropolis, and The Adventures of Prince Achmed, in venues such as The Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York, The National Concert Hall and Christchurch Cathedral in Dublin. In 2022, Steve worked with composer Matthew Nolan to create a new score for Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 sci-fi classic Solaris, which they performed at The New York Film Festival.