The University of Western Ontario

Graduate Student, FIMS: Faculty of Information and Media Studies

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My current research explores the creation of ambient structures (soundscapes) and their use as aesthetic texts. Specifically, I consider the ambiences and ecologies of urban environments as material, auditory, and political practices. These practices in turn produce affective frames for collective audiences. I view the soundscape as a deliberate organization of social space that is subject to control and interpretation; a cultural form that is fictionalized and narratable; an ambiguous and contradictory idea that is always changing and variable.

My research is rooted in the material use of sound, documentary analysis, the use of descriptive and interpretive aesthetic histories and documents, and qualitative methods. Questions about what constitutes a text, how communities play, and how a city can be composed and improvised are essential to my work. 

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