I work as a researcher and sonic artist re-verbing the sound of subtle or ʻotheredʼ information in language. In this I am exploring the possibilities of re figuring sound in language to be apprehended as a range of potential events for saying ʻthe unsaidʼ through its own re-contextualized and inherent meaning. This is a working towards and beyond the comically contested edge of represented meaning.

Iʼm presently engaged in PhD practice-led trans-disciplinary research at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane It is based on Gertrude Stein and the notion and implications of sound I read/hear in her work. In effect I am constructing a fluid understandings and approaches for sounded-language based on her work. It is my contention that Stein wrote in loops that perform radical sounded ecologies for language that impact radically on notions of meaning in Western philosophy. This research is structuring a feminist metaphysics through perceptual – audible aesthetic experience of language, where the ruptures be they social, or within meaning, meet. I am currently working toward the completion of a text based work explicating sound as a new frame for meaning in language and exploring its implications for digital languages based on the (un)theories of Stein. My interpretations of Steinʼs work operates as a score for sounded-language and as a meaning rupture driven by the implications of ecstatic voice play. Part of this text is being translated in to an opera(operation).

I also have a passionate interest for dialogues, recorded in written testimonies and missing as the unsaid in philosophy and literature. I am an avid collector and composer of scores for these ʻmissing dialoguesʼ reconstituted as notation systems to hold the form of sound in language and I am busy exploring/performing the combination of these through the use of digital animated ventriloquist dummies. I fold all three together into ʻbaroqueʼ digital operas(operations and interventions) choired by digitally animated ventriloquist dummies. These dummies sing/speak (un)theory presented as looped presences on the web and on video.

I am also involved in linking and building online communities, setting up short and long terms collaborations and creative links with other practitioners. I have recently returned from a research trips to the US and London and Canada to set up collaborative links with digital sound artists and theorists.

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