* from Webster’s Encyclopedic Dictionary of the English Language, Canadian Edition.  New York: Lexicon Publications, Inc., 1988.

• About Me

  

  I teach full time in the Humanities department at Champlain College in Montreal. My research, pedagogy, and creative practice reside at the intersections of soundscape research, media studies, and critical geography. I have previously taught in the cinema departments at Concordia University and Toronto Metropolitan University, and in the Humanities departments at Lasalle College and Dawson College. I have presented and published extensively on film sound, media geography, and acoustic ecology. My sound compositions, photographs and films have been exhibited internationally. See bio for more details.

• Fall 2024

  This semester I am teaching courses on media literacy and environmental art at Champlain College and a course on sound, art and consciousness at Concordia. My new book, Acoustic Profiles: A Sound Ecology of the Cinema, was released into the wild last year. I have a video essay on sound in the films of Gus Van Sant in the current issue of Alphaville, and my chapter on Stan Douglas' iOS app Circa 1948 has just surfaced in the The Interactive Documentary in Canada collection (McGill-Queen's University Press). I have begun work on my next short film, Displacements, an experimental documentary on the life of my father in Vancouver, BC. I recently completed the sound design for a new film collaboration with Gerda Cammaer, Sea Changes, now on the festival circuit. I have a short text on the silent film Little Lindy Sang forthcoming in the Oxford Companion to Teaching Silent Film. And I am prepping a grad seminar on BC Film for Concordia in the winter.

• Links to My Stuff

  • Inevitable Plastic : Photography
  • Soppy Bag Radio : On the Dial
  • Soppy Bag Records : Creation Hub
  • The Schizophone : Sound Blog
  • Thesis (M.A.) : Sound in Lynch
  • Thesis (Ph.D.) : Audiovisual Ecology

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