Practice
Selected Creative Practice
Sound installation (forthcoming): Impostor Cities. Canada’s official entry for the 2020 Venice Architecture Bienale led by David Theodore and T B A. Info here.
Short film: Bell Tower of False Creek (2017). Now on the festival circuit. Info here.
Soundscape composition: Bell Tower of False Creek (Intermission Edit) (2013). Presented in the “Listening Room” program at the Invisible Places / Sounding Cities symposium in Viseu, Portugal, July 18-20, 2014; also presented as part of the Intermission: Audio Portraits of Place broadcast on Stress.fm in conjunction with the 2013 Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Sept. 20-22. Info on piece here.
Radio program: 21st Century Schizophone (2012). Artist in Residence for the July edition of The Montreal Sessions on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal, QC, Canada. Mixcloud archive here.
Photographic print: N.D.G. Lightsaber #1 (2011). Exhibited at the 14th Annual Krappy Kamera Exhibition. March 7-31, 2012, Soho Photo Gallery, New York City, NY, USA. Exhibition catalog here.
Photographic print: Ueno Lights #3 (2009). Exhibited at the 4th International Juried Plastic Camera Show. March 4 – May 1, 2011, RayKo Photo Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA. Show info here. Photo archived here.
Short film: Keelia Takes Manhattan (2010). Presented at, Cinesonika Film Festival, Nov. 12-21, 2010, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada; FSAC 2010 (Film Studies Association of Canada), June 1-4, 2010, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada. IMDB page here. Cinesonika program here. Excerpt here.
Short film: Stardust (2009). Credited as Gerstyn Hayward. Film sound design for Gerda Cammaer’s short film of the same name. Presented at, Antimatter Film Festival, Oct. 9-17, 2009, Victoria, BC, Canada; International Short Film Festival, March 17-21, 2010, Nijemen, Netherlands; and Videoex, May 22-30, 2010, Switzerland (where it received an honorable mention in the international competition section). Archived online here.
Soundscape composition: Winlaw Watersheds (2009). Presented at, WFAE 2009 (World Forum for Acoustic Ecology). March 23-27, 2009, Mexico City, Mexico.
Video: Revolution 2008 (2008). Credited as Gerstyn Hayward. Archivist and sample selector for digital video by Coldcut vs. TV Sheriff. Released online here.
Audio collage: A Family Thing (2004). Credited as Gerstyn Hayward. Presented at the Electra Gallery in the New Forms Festival, Oct. 14–31, 2004. Vancouver, BC. Also released on the DVD-format exhibition catalogue for Richard Kerr’s Industry show, Nov. 4, 2004 – Jan. 23, 2005, Cinémathèque Québécoise, Montreal, QC, Canada. Info and excerpt here.
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.