Ted Apel is a sound artist whose sculptures and installations focus on the audio transducing element as the source of visual and sonic material.

He has exhibited his work at sound art festivals and exhibits including the SoundCulture festival in San Francisco; the Ussachevsky Festival in Claremont, California; the Audio Art Festival in Krakow, Poland; the Sound Symposium in St. John's Newfoundland. the O.K. Center for Contemporary Art in Linz, Austria, and the Academy of Arts, Berlin.

He was twice a prizewinner at the Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition for his sound installations; his sound installation received an honorary mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 2001; and won the grand prize in the 2004 Idaho Triennial.

Ted Apel received his M.A. in electroacoustic music at Dartmouth College studying with Jon Appleton, Larry Polansky and Christian Wolff. He received his Ph.D. in computer music at the University of California, San Diego with Miller Puckette, Shlomo Dubnov, and F. Richard Moore. He is currently teaching computer music and new media art as adjunct faculty at Boise State University, and is represented by the Kristi Engle gallery in Los Angeles.