Output list
Conference presentation
Life imitating art – film sound design and the sound of vehicles
Date presented 20/06/2025
The European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS 2025) Conference , 18/06/2025–21/06/2025, Lusofona University, Lisbon, Portugal
In science fiction cinema, futuristic vehicles have often been accompanied by futuristic sound design. Now that some of that futuristic travel is becoming reality, how much of the sound from cinema has made its way into the thinking for actual vehicles?
Since electric vehicles became viable as a practical alternative to ICE vehicles sound has been a challenge. Making little inherent sound of their own, other than rolling tyre noise, the external and internal sound of a vehicle is an interesting sound design case study. Once regulatory requirements relating to safety have been taken into account there is a good deal of leeway in how an EV sounds to the occupants and to pedestrians outside the vehicle.
The sound of electric vehicles is increasingly important as a selling point, as well as fulfilling practical functions such as safety and driver feedback. But the emotional connection to a vehicle – the thing that makes people want to drive, or own, such a vehicle – can be influenced by sound design. Film sound design is often about creating an emotional connection, so it is perhaps not surprising that automotive sound designers look to cinema as a source of inspiration. This paper examines the influence of cinematic sound design on vehicle sound design.
Conference paper
Date presented 25/08/2023
Sound, Image, Text: Symposium, 24/08/2023–25/08/2023, Australian National University
Conference paper
Anthropoiesis: Eco-Performance project at ECC, Venice Biennale 2023
Date presented 05/05/2023
Environmental Communication: Science Inspired & Arts Delivered, 04/05/2023–05/05/2023, James Cook University, Cairns, QLD
Anthropoiesis is a soundscape inviting us to reconfigure our relations with time, space and existence in the
Anthropocene age. It asks: what does it mean to live enfolded by deep time when humans have become a new
geologic agent? Given that poiesis is to make, transform, or bring forth, how can we reimagine our geologic future? Where is beauty to be found amidst the terror of biodiversity loss and climate change and how can we
create a sublime poetics of kin-making? This assemblage of ‘sound debris’ combines organic and human-constructed landscapes recorded on sites across Western and Central Australia and beyond. These reflect the
many scales and layers of more-than-human existence, from the granular to expansive. Sounds are layered with
new writing and text adapted from David Farrier’s Anthropocene Poetics (2019).
(PDF) Anthropoiesis: Eco-Performance project at ECC, Venice Biennale 2023. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370155660_Anthropoiesis_Eco-Performance_project_at_ECC_Venice_Biennale_2023#fullTextFileContent [accessed May 19 2023].
Conference paper
The foundations of sound practice
Published 2019
NECS Conference 2019: Structures and Voices: Storytelling in Post-Digital times, 13/06/2019–15/06/2019, Gdańsk, Poland
Conference paper
Common sense: What films can teach us about sound
Published 2018
Screen Studies Association of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand (SSAAANZ2018) : The Uses of Cinema, 21/11/2018–23/11/2018, Monash University, VIC, Australia
Conference presentation
Foley effects: Sound and application
Published 2018
ATOM WA PD Day 2018, 30/11/2011, Perth, Western Australia
Conference presentation
"Sound and ...?" The in/between of Sound and Visual Media Studies
Published 2016
Sound Design Theory and Practice
NECS Conference 2016, 28/07/2016–30/07/2016, Potsdam, Germany
Workshop
Conference paper
Clues in the library: Fiction techniques in the non-fiction film soundtrack archive
Published 2015
European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS) 2015 Conference, 18/06/2015–20/06/2015, Lodz, Poland
No abstract available
Conference paper
Peirce and sound design: Sound theory from sound practice
Published 2014
European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS) 2014 Conference, 19/06/2014–21/06/2014, Milan, Italy
No abstract available
Conference paper
Published 2014
2nd International Conference of the European Sound Studies Association (ESSA) 2014, 27/06/2014–29/06/2014, Copenhagen, Denmark
No abstract available