Fred DeFaye began his career has a recording and mixing engineer, including as the personal engineer for the Eurythmics on their albums Savage and Revenge, later working with artists such as Depeche Mode, Tom Petty, The Prodigy, Bob Dylan and Paddy Casey. 

As sound designer, theatre includes: The Gates of Kyiv (& Royal Windsor), Au Bord (& Triennale Milano), The Black Diamond (& Punchdrunk), People show 119: Ghost Sonata (People Show); Krapp’s Last Tape [associate sound designer] (Barbican).   

As composer, dance includes: Time/Dropper (Jose Agudo); Tree (Sweetshop Revolution); Pull Me Closer, Rush 1/2, Alone Together (LEVYdance).   

As sound designer & sound engineer, dance includes: Strange Blooms, Material Men redux, Bayadère – The Ninth Life, Translocations [& sound editor], Material Men, Counterpoint [& sound consultant] (Shobana Jeyasingh/Sadlers); Enowate (Dickson MBI/Sadlers); Isadora Now (Viviana Durante/Barbican).  

As sound engineer, dance includes: Portraits in Otherness, DUENDE (Akram Khan/Dickson MBI); Under Siege, Rite of Spring (Yang Liping); Dance for Ukraine (Ivan Putrov); Ten Thousand Tons of Moonlight, Nine Songs (Fengling).