James Peter Brown is a composer and sound designer known for his evocative and diverse music scores. His practice investigates emotive experiences that explore character and aid storytelling. He has worked across a range of forms, from film to theatre and contemporary dance to
documentary, animation, video games and virtual reality. His processes often involve creating music and sound simultaneously with the development of a project, building connections between performance material and sound.

He holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts from Sydney College of the Arts, in which his focus was on composition and sound design for animation.

He also holds a Masters of Acoustic Physics from The University of Sydney, for which his thesis was on the impacts of low frequency sound on the body and mind.