2009

"A Meeting Place of Edges: Hearing the Aurora Borealis in Peter Mettler's Picture of Light." Presented at: FSAC 2009 (Film Studies Association of Canada). May 28-31, 2009, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

"In Search of the Centre: Urban Soundscapes in the Cinema of Sogo Ishii." Presented at: ALT-SCMS 2009: The Josai International University Media Studies Department Media Workshop. May 23rd, 2009, Tokyo, Japan.

Note: This paper was originally to be presented at SCMS 2009 in Tokyo. SCMS was cancelled due to concerns over Japanese health regulations surrounding the H1N1 flu virus. Aaron Gerow, Mark Nornes, and Akira Lippit organized this one-day conference for those of us who still wanted to make the trip and present our papers. (Photos here).

"Architecture, Acoustic Ecology, and Cinematic Representation: Jacques Tati's Playtime and R. Murray Schafer's Project of Acoustic Design." Presented at: WFAE 2009 (World Forum for Acoustic Ecology). March 23-27, 2009, Mexico City, Mexico. (Photos here).

Soundscape Composition: Winlaw Watersheds (15'38"). Presented at: WFAE 2009 (World Forum for Acoustic Ecology). March 23-27, 2009, Mexico City, Mexico. (Photos here).

2008

"A New Model for the Compilation Film Soundtrack: Soundscape Composition in the Films of Gus Van Sant." Presented by invitation at: SEMCINE IV (International Film and Audiovisual Seminar). July 21-26, 2008, Bahia, Brazil. (Photos here).

"The Case of the 5.1 Stalker: Pedagogical Benefits of a Bastardized DVD Soundtrack." Presented at: FSAC 2008 (Film Studies Association of Canada). June 2-4, 2008, UBC, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

"Militant Acoustic Ecology in the Halls of Insitutional Terror: Soundscape Composition in Gus Van Sant's Elephant." Presented at: SCMS 2008 (Society for Cinema and Media Studies). March 6-9, 2008, Loewes Philladelphia, PA, USA. (Photos here).

2007

"Dissolving the Boundary Between Sound and Image in the Cinema: Immersive Reflexivity in Peter Mettler's Picture of Light." Presented at: Visible Evidence XIV. December 18-21, 2007, Bochum, Germany.

"Acoustic Ecology and the Cinematic Representation of Architectural Space: Strains of R. Murray Schafer's Acoustic Design in the Films of Jacques Tati." Presented at: CAA 2007 (Canadian Acoustical Association). October 9-12, 2007, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada.

“Towards the Visible Acousmêtre in the Age of Digital Multi-Channel Sound: Material Embodiment Across the Two Versions of Donnie Darko.” Presented at: SCMS 2007 (Society for Cinema and Media Studies). March 8-11, 2007, Chicago Hilton, IL, USA. (Photos here).

2006

“Soundwalking through the Doors of Perception: The Work of Hildegard Westerkamp in the Films of Gus Van Sant. Presented at: Sounding Out 3. Sept. 7-9, 2006, University of Sunderland, UK.

“The whole world’s going to hell but it’s nothing a good party can’t fix: Jacques Tati’s Playtime and R. Murray Schafer’s Project of Acoustic Design.” Presented at: FSAC (Film Studies Association of Canada) Annual Congress. May 28-30, 2006. York University, Ontario, Canada.

2005

“Cause and Effect: Cinema and the Tradition of Acousmatic Music.” Presented at: EMS-05 (Electroacoustic Music Studies 2005). Oct. 19-22, 2005. Departments of Music, McGill University, Concordia University, Université de Montréal, QC.

“‘The Great Pretender’ : John Oswald’s Adventures in Technologically Gendered Alibis for Existence.” Presented at: In and Out of the Sound Studio. July 25-29, 2005. Department of Communications, Concordia University, Montreal, QC.

“The Bird People in China: Schizophonic Mediations in Historical Context.” Presented at the FSAC (Film Studies Association of Canada) Annual Congress. May 29-31, 2005. Department of Cinema Studies, University of Western Ontario, London, ON.

“The Dual Substance of Cinema: What Kazantzakis’s Christ Can Teach Us About Sound/Image Relationships in Film.” Presented at: FSAC Graduate Colloquium. March 3-5, 2005. Univerite de Montreal, QC.

"Ghost Worlds: Phonography, Indexicality, and the Fear of the Digital Revolution." Presented at: R/Évolution 4: Teckno-Praxi. March 18-20, 2005. Department of Humanities, Concordia University, Montreal, QC.


“Worshiping at the Altar of the Turntable.” Presented at: Embodied Religion: Manifestations in the Mundane. Tenth Annual Graduate Students' Interdisciplinary Conference. Feb. 3, 2005. Department of Religion, Concordia University, Montreal, QC.

2004

“Turntable Presence in the Cinema.” Presented at: Radio and Sound Technology Area area of the MAPACA (Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association) Annual Meeting. Nov. 5-7, 2004. University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY.

“The Dual Substance of Cinema: What the Voices of Kazantzakis’s Christ Can Teach Us About Sound/Image Relationships in Film.” Presented at: Sounding Out 2. July 8 – 10, 2004. Department of Film and American Studies, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.

“Consumption as Dialogue: Spiritualism, Sampling, and the Impossibility of One-Way Cultural Transmission in the era of Simultaneous Production and Consumption.” Presented at: Talking Heads: Creating Dialogue and Response. Ninth Annual Graduate Students' Interdisciplinary Conference. May 4, 2004. Department of Religion, Concordia University, Montreal, QC.

“The Great Pretender: John Oswald, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Alibis for Existence in the Realm of the Popular.” Presented at: R/Évolution 3: POP. March 19-21, 2004. Department of Humanities, Concordia University, Montreal, QC.

2003

“Healing the Breach between Sound and Image: Audiovisual Separation Anxiety, Transsensoriality, and Turntable Presence in the Films of David Lynch.” Presented at: FSAC Graduate Students Colloquium. March 21-23, 2003. Department of Cinema, Brock University, Ste. Catherines, ON.

2002

“The American Ghost: Sound Reproduction Technology, Fluid Identity, and Urban America in American Psycho and Ghost Dog.” Presented at: FSAC Graduate Students Colloquium. March 15-17, 2002. Department of Cinema, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON.