Steve Parker uses sculpture, sound, and performance to create communal, democratic works that examine history and behavior.[5]Futurist Listening, at the CUE Art Foundation curated by Marcela Guerrero, featured sonic headwear, acoustic sculptures built from brass instruments, and graphic scores that utilized World War II tactics like jamming signals, coded messages, and warning sirens, reimagining them in sculptural form as tools for present-day protest and deception.[6]War Tuba Recital, featured sculptural work inspired by the role of sound in conflict. In this exhibition, he drew from the work of
Dr. Seuss, the WWII
Ghost Army, and
acoustic location to make a series of interactive sculptures.[7]Grackle Call was a multi-media soundwalk that took audiences to the roosting locations of the great-tailed grackle. The work mimicked a birding experience, where audiences were provided with binoculars, iPods, and a printed program guide that guided them to performances, installations, radio stories, and soundscapes.[8] In 2016, he composed Bat/Man, a participatory composition for bat echolocation, conch shells, funnel pipes, megaphone choir, and echolocation devices for the
Fusebox Festival.[9]
In 2019, he was commissioned by
KMFA to create a long term installation called Sound Garden in the radio station's new building.[10]
Foghorn Elegy, an installation of foghorns and communication tower about defunct forms of nautical communication commissioned by The Contemporary Austin, 2021[11]
Futurist Listening at Rich Mix, London, UK, 2021[12]