I am a composer, researcher, and educator whose work explores the intersections of music, technology, and ecology. I recently completed a PhD in Music at Edinburgh Napier University, which investigated ecological musicking through live electro-acoustic music practice. My interests span ecological and posthuman perspectives in musical practice, improvisation, media composition, and ludomusicology.
I have contributed to The Routledge Companion to Creativities in Music Education and presented research at conferences, including the InMusic 2023 conference at Edinburgh Napier University.
Through both scholarship and practice, my work aims to rethink the role of the contemporary musician, moving between research, performance, and composition to foreground ecological connection, distributed authorship, and the relationship between music, technology, and human experience.
My Masters dissertation explored video game music as a then-unfamiliar practice and musical identity through a wider lens. This research was distilled into a video essay, which can be viewed from the embedded YouTube video on this page or here.
I am currently working on fine-tuning and sharing my PhD research publicly – watch this space!
The Sound Beneath Our Feet
In 2022 I participated as Research Assistant on The Sound Beneath Our Feet, a collaboration between Edinburgh Napier University and the University of Edinburgh that brings together disciplines of geosciences, creative computing and music in working with seismic data from two volcanic eruptions in Ecuador in 2013 and 2016.