bio

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​Taylor Lee Shepherd is an artist and sound designer and builder of mechanical and electronic wonders in New Orleans, LA. ​

Taylor likes to make things move in old fashioned ways. He often uses rotating cams, an 13th century invention, but he is also really fond of tape recorders. He has been known to make drawing machines, electronic doorknockers, dancing light machines and other irreverent loud or moving objects.

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He has shown at numerous New Orleans galleries including Barristers, XO Gallery, The Candle Factory, and L’art Noir. He has also shown at Gallery T (Denver) and Bereznitzky Gallery (Berlin). His work was included in the wildly popular Sequence of Waves show organized by the Rabid Hands Collective at St. Cecilia’s Church in Brooklyn and The Museum of Curioisty in London with Black Rat Press. Taylor was also recently included in the Technological Terrarium exhibition at The Ogden Museum of Southern Art

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​T​​aylor is the lead sound artist, technical director and co – founder​ of New Orleans Airlift’s Musical Architecture project, “the Music Box”​ and was involved with The Music Box Outpost at Art Arsenale, Kiev,​ ​Ukraine​ and The Music Box’s Calanthean Canyons project in Shreveport, LA.