Crises of Enchantment: Listening, Democracy & the Clamours of Nationalism

A major new project—funded by the British Academy, Leverhulme Trust, and a fellowship at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg—to explore the hypothesis that the current crises of democratic representation and the resurgence of the nationalist right are symptomatic of a crisis of listening by constructuing a genealogy of an un-heard of concept of listening in political philosophy.

Cart-otographies of Cities: Soundmapping Urban Political Economies

A project, funded by a fellowship at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, weaving together theory and field recording to investigate how practices of soundmapping can be used to generate representations of contemporary capitalism.

Listening, Democracy, Deconstruction: From Nationalist Myths to Typographies of Resistance

A pilot piece of research funded by the Warwick Research Development Fund for the current larger-scale project on Listening and Democracy (left), involving field recording and archival work.

Out of Work: An Audio-Visual Scrapbook

A field-recording and photography project charting the myriad experiences of being “out of work” that arose during the pandemic.

Ec(h)otechnics

A future project at the intersection of environmental humanities and sound studies that will explore the technological modulation of aural attunement to the environment.

The Sonic Habitués of the Strip:
Listening in Las Vegas

A weeklong fieldwork project, funded by a Mellon Humanities+Urbanism+Design research grant, exploring the soundscapes of the Las Vegas Strip and the ways in which gamblers listen in casinos under neoliberal capitalism.

Music and Belonging Between Revolution and Restoration

A project blending music analysis and contemporary European political philosophy that built on and extended my doctoral research to look at the role of listening in the music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven and how it can promote an experience of community that is not rooted in property.