"The Garden of Adumbrations": An Anecdotal Soundscape

This thesis examines R. Murray Schafer’s conception of the “soundscape”, Pierre Schaeffer’s “acousmatic”, and the “anecdotal” works of iconoclast Luc Ferrari. Overviews of musical time scales, sound ecology, spatial perspectives, reduced listening, and schizophonia are undertaken along the way.

Complementarity: An Archipelago

Chapter in the book Framemakers: Choreography as an Aesthetics of Change, published by Daghdha, Ireland.

Niels Bohr used the term complementarity to explain how, in order to appreciate reality, we must balance two contradictory concepts in our mind at the same time. This chapter connects quantum foam, childhood nightmares, the measurement of sound, the pigeonhole principle, musical chairs, Alexander’s pattern language, post-punk musicians Wire, the Observer Pattern, and cybernetics.

Jean Baudrillard: How to Disappear Completely

This short appreciation, following the death of Jean Baudrillard, appeared in The International Journal of Baudrillard Studies.