I am a graduate of the MA Film Studies programme at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University in Montreal where I wrote my MA Thesis on sound in the films of David Lynch.

I am currently a doctoral candidate in the interdisciplinary PhD Humanities programme, housed in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture at Concordia. My doctoral research explores the intersections between film studies, electroacoustic music and acoustic ecology. My dissertation, entitled Audiovisual Ecology in the Cinema, examines films that explore ecological issues through their approaches to sound/image relationships. I have presented my research at conferences in Canada, the US, the UK, Germany, Brazil, Mexico, and Japan. My writing has been published in several anthologies including Music, Sound, and Multimedia (University of Edinburgh Press, 2007) and has most recently appeared in the film sound journal Music, Sound, and the Moving Image. I am also a regular contributor to the online film journals Synoptique and Offscreen where I write on film sound and cover local film and new media festivals.

My post-doctoral project will examine the historical representation of the soundscapes of New York City and Montreal on film. As a preliminary research tool I have established MontrealSoundscape.org, a resource guide for those interested in studying the soundscape of Montreal.

I have taught on film sound theory, auteur studies, film aesthetics, and interdisciplinary studies at Concordia University and LaSalle College in Montreal.

For the past 15 years I have administrated the Soppy Bag Records artist collective, first established in 1994 as the production house for the work of my band We Are Privy in which I played keyboards and wrote compositions. The band dissolved shortly after our only recording was completed, but since then Soppy Bag Records has been the nexus point of my creative practice which has involved music, film/video work, soundscape composition, as well as a host of audio collage projects under the name Gerstyn Hayward. My work has been presented at New Forms Festival (Vancouver, 2004), The Anti-Matter Film Festival (Victoria, 2009), and the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (Mexico City, 2009). My latest film will premiere in the Scholars' Screening Series at the annual meeting of the Film Studies Association of Canada in Montreal this June.