Current Research Activities

I am an Assistant Professor in Concordia University's Department of Communication Studies. I have begun a new research project involving soundwalks through the Montreal Blue project of urban waterways renewal, which is taking place over the next three years, culminating in the re-opening of the Lachine Canal in 2002.

As a PhD student in the Graduate Programme in Music at York University in Toronto, my PhD dissertation focused on Vancouver soundscape composer Hildegard Westerkamp.

For my Master's thesis in Music, [abstract] I interviewed fourteen Canadian women composers of electroacoustic music, and wrote about their experiences, ideas, music, and approaches to teaching and composition. The entire thesis can be read online using Acrobat reader. Here are some women composers' words in a slide show (30 seconds per quote).

If you are interested in reading some of my work, try this ever-growing list of online articles, and abstracts of published printed papers, most of which discuss issues of gender, sound, creation and technology.

In the summer of 1996, I participated in the development of a website for the Canadian Musical Pathways Project, research at York University directed by ethnomusicologist Beverley Diamond, exploring musical life stories, community performance, and local production.