About me
My teaching and research relates to two broad areas of sound studies. Firstly, the theory of sound in areas such as film and television, interactive media, popular music, radio and sound studies. Secondly, in sound production working as sound designer on film and tv, theatre, and other audiovisual media including the sound installation, Anthropoiesis, exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2023.
Before becoming a lecturer I worked as a studio recording engineer and then as a radio engineer with BBC Radio in the UK. Whilst working in radio I completed a BA majoring in Criminology. I took a year out to complete a Graduate Diploma in Education at Murdoch in 1999 and later returned to Australia and began working here in 2002.
I am currently the Associate Dean of Learning and Teaching for the school of Media and Communication; the Academic Chair of the Sound Design major and the Bachelor of Creative Media degree.
I am also co-editor of the journal Music, Sound and the Moving Image (Liverpool University Press).