STORYTELLER
My academic career is as diverse and enriching as my work experience. I've researched, studied and written on criminology, sociology, psychology, creative fiction, philosophy, architecture, musicology and urban planning, culminating in a PhD in Communications from McGill University. Years of rigorous academic work has refined not just my research skills, but my ability to synthesize volumes of disparate information and elevate its discu
(Re)sounding: Disintegrating Visual Space in Music
Critically examining the history of the philosophy of space, my 400-page dissertation explores the possibilities of sound and music to re-imagine new and different spatialities of the self, anchored in the explanatory potential of a 5 hour groundbreaking work of ambient music by renowned artist William Basinski.
"To this end, the sonic represents a rich and unexplored are from which to imagine a radical non-visual space that discursively organizes itself according to a different economy through which to challenge its assumed visuality."
The Sounds of Disappearance
What does it mean for something to appear, and then disappear? How does the temporal nature of sound affect us in its coming and goings? This paper examines how the materiality of sound's unfolding - as both appearance, event and disappearance - intersect at the level of producing subjectivity.
"There is no such thing as a sound beyond history."
"The Sounds of Disappearance", Intermediality, Issue 10, Fall 2007, p. 115–130
