David Chapman was born on the South Coast of England in 1959 and lives in London. He worked as a professional musician, performing and recording with The Blue Aeroplanes amongst others, until studying Film at the Polytechnic of North London, and completing postgraduate studies at the University of Westminster.
He currently creates digital sound pieces for both gallery and web exhibition. Recent work has included a series of projects based around Gunpowder Park, a recently reclaimed munitions test site, and the Lee Valley, near London. The projects, based on the collection of bio-acoustic and environmental field recordings include Revelation (2004), an on-line art project which maps through sound and image the site surrounding in London Lee Valley and Hark (2005), an audio-visual installation.
Recent live performance has included a series of experimentations with playable sound sculptures and performance work with visual artist Janette Parris.
He has produced and directed a number of documentary films, including The Hum (1997), which explored inexplicable occurrences of low frequency noise in the West of England and Steel-Cello / Bow-Chime (2005), which examines the performance history of the sound sculptures developed by artist Bob Rutman in the 1960s. He has also produced a number of new media art projects, such as Wigs of Wonderment (2002), with performance group moti roti and Chanting Heads (2001), with the arts organisation AAVAA.
He is also a senior lecturer in media production at the University of East London, UK.