ABOUT

Adam Stearns is an audio-visual sonic artist and composer. He has recently completed an MSc in sound design and audiovisual practice at the University of Glasgow. His work encompasses fixed media, live performance, installation, and moving image. Inspired by communities, heritage, identity, queerness, and socio-cultural phenomena, Adam’s work often tells a story of a place, person, or community.  He creates participatory art which encourages connection and communication between people. His work has been featured on BBC Radio 3, he has composed for the Scottish Ballet, and has had a number of sound art exhibitions supported by Jerwood, Creative Scotland and Glasgow Building Preservation Trust.

He has worked as a freelance musician in a number of contexts, providing musical accompaniment for the Scottish Ballet’s education department  – playing piano and percussion for classes specifically designed for people living with dementia, Parkinson’s and MS, in addition to outreach programs for young people around Scotland. Adam also works as an educator, and has facilitated various community orientated music and sound art projects around Glasgow.

Since 2024 Adam has been working as a digital technologies teacher at the New International School of Japan in Ikebukuro, Tokyo where he currently resides.