Douglas Quin is a music composer, sound artist and designer, wildlife recordist, public radio commentator and educator. For the past 30 years he has traveled widely documenting the natural soundscape—from Antarctic ice to Arctic tundra and from African savannah to Amazon rainforest.

His soundscape compositions, music and installations have been featured at numerous festivals and venues including Merkin Hall, The Kitchen, Roulette, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Spoleto Festival USA, National Art Gallery of Albania, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, and Venice International Performance Art Week. He is the recipient of numerous commissions, awards and grants including the Ars Acustica International prize, Meet the Composer, multiple fellowships in music composition from the National Endowment for the Arts and  the National Science Foundation.

Quin’s extensive polar work over two decades includes a commission from West German Radio in Köln for a live satellite sound art project from Antarctica and Polar Suite, for the award-winning Kronos Quartet featuring soundscapes and interactive electronics. Other polar oriented work includes a fellowship at the National Film and Sound Archive Australia and the Liquid Architecture Sound Art Festival and Tour in Australia where he presented a series of multi-channel Antarctic soundscapes.

Among other projects, Quin created the sound design for and mixed Werner Herzog's Academy Award® nominated documentary film about Antarctica, Encounters at the End of the World and worked variously on Jurassic Park III, the game Spore, as well as documentaries for television and radio. He has also designed and consulted on exhibits for the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History, American Museum of Natural History and the Polish Academy of Sciences, among others.

He is Professor Emeritus at the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and former adjunct faculty in the School of Creative Arts and Media at the University of Tasmania.