writing

PDF of CV (updated Oct 2011)

Editing & curating

Guest curator, Sounds Like Now! CD to accompany a special issue on improvisation and technology, Leonardo Music Journal 20 (2010).

Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound, Duke University Press (2010). Twenty-four interviews with women who are electronic musicians, DJs, sound artists; with critical introduction on gender and audio cultures.

Guest editor, “Sound and the Social Organization of Space,” Leonardo Music Journal 16 (2006). A curated special section featuring artist statements from Carrie Bodle, Beth Coleman & Howard Goldkrand, Chris Kubick & Anne Walsh, Trevor Paglen, and Matt Volla.

History & theory

“‘What, for me, constitutes life in a sound?’: Electronic Sounds as Lively and Differentiated Individuals,” American Quarterly 63:3 (September 2011), special issue: Sound Clash: Listening to American Studies, edited by Kara Keeling and Josh Kun: 509-30.

“Stripping for the State: Whole Body Imaging Technologies and the Surveillance of Othered Bodies” (co-authored with Shoshana Magnet), Feminist Media Studies 12:1 (2012). Published online April 2011.

Synthesizing Sound: Metaphor in Audio-Technical Discourse and Synthesis History,” PhD dissertation, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University (2010).

On the Process and Aesthetics of Sampling in Electronic Music Production, Organised Sound 8:3 (2003), 313-20.

Artist statements

On the audiovisual installation “Places I’ve Lived and Traveled To, 1973-2005,” Tools of Mind, special issue of FO A RM curated by Matt Marble (2007).

“Butterfly Effects: Synthesis, Emergence, and Transduction,” Leonardo Electronic Almanac 14:7-8 (2006), special issue: Wild Nature and the Digital Life, edited by Sue Thomas and Dene Grigar. On a quad sound installation, written in SuperCollider, inspired by behaviors of migrating butterflies.

Interviews

In Vague Terrain: Digital Art/Culture/Technology, “Process” issue (2007).