CHIEF RECORDING ENGINEER @ UC SAN DIEGO
Since 2024 I have worked for UC San Diego’s Department of Music as “a high-level research supporter and practitioner who serves the UCSD Music Department faculty and advanced student constituency as an expert in all aspects of recording and live audio.” In this role I mentor, supervise, and assist with faculty and graduate research projects; ensure that all Department of Music concerts and events are recorded at the highest fidelity; and work to create innovative and durable archiving solutions for the department’s vast archive of historically significant materials.
A key function of this role is, through experimentation and research, to stay on top of the latest trends in recording, mixing, mastering, and diffusion/playback technology.f
CALIFORNIA GRID
A large-scale project in which I use field recordings, photography, and written text to document a grid of points covering the state of California. This work has been ongoing since 2017, with the final audio recordings captured in mid-2026. Focussing on field recording as a performative act, I have created an archive of sound, image, and personal reflection in which the experiences of traveling, listening, living, and researching are entangled. This work shows how the act of listening can reveal landscape to be the product of historic and socio-cultural forces, of intersecting stories on timescales from the personal to the geological.
Materials from this project have been presented as research papers and installation pieces at the Sound of Memory Symposium (Goldsmiths, London), Space Time Art (San Diego), the Sound and Environment Symposium (Newcastle University), Monash University (Melbourne, Australia), etc.
