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Series

Sound
Series of articles on the film soundtrack - published in Film Comment, New York - 2002>>

Wire: Cinesonic

Series of reviews of film music CDs - published in The Wire, London - 2003 >>

Cinesonics
Series of articles on sound in the cinema - published in Real Time, Sydney - 1997 to 2001

The Secret History of Film Music
Series of articles on 20th Century music in the cinema - published in The Wire, London - 1997 to 1998

Articles / talks

The Non-Event of Sound in Video Art
reprinted in VIDEO LOGIC, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2008

EVAPORATED MUSIC, Revoicing & Gendered Vocalization
Unpublished talk delivered in conjunction with the exhibition VIDEO LOGIC, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2008

CITIZEN KANE: The sound of the look of a 'visual masterpiece
published in Music & The Moving Image, Vol.1 No.3, University of Illinois Press, Champaign

Where Sound Is: Locating The Absent Aural in Film Theory
published in The SAGE Handbook of Film Studies, Sage Publications, London, 2008

Sonic - Atomic - Neumonic: Apocalyptic Echoes in Japanese Animation
published in Illusion of Life 2 - Essays on Animation, Power Publications, Sydney, 2007 (from original presentation at the Illusion of Life conference, Sydney 1995)

How Sound Floats on Land: The Suppression & Release of Folk & Indigenous Musics on the Cinematic Terrain
edited version reprinted in BEYOND THE SOUNDTRACK, University of California Press, 2007

Pseudo Soundtracks - The Myth of INventive Audiovision in Experimental Cinema
Unpublished keynote talk for the Totally Huge New Music Conference, Perth, 2007

PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE - From Muzak to Prozac & Beyond (extended from entry in 100 MODERN SOUNDTRACKS)
published in FFWD Magazine No.4, January, Rome, 2007

MAGNOLIA - Vocal Noise, Multiplied Music and Song-As-Narrative
(extended unpublished lecture from 100 MODERN SOUNDTRACKS) Royal Holloway University of London, 2006

AKIRA: Post-atomic landscapes & post-sonic mindscapes
(extended unpublished lecture from 100 MODERN SOUNDTRACKS) University of Liverpool, UK, 2006; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 2006

THE CONVERSATION: Invisibility, Silence & Inner Emptiness
(extended unpublished lecture from 100 MODERN SOUNDTRACKS) University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 2005; University of Iowa, Iowa City, 2005

THE COLOUR OF POMMEGRANATES: Lyrics, Icons and Other Musical States
(extended unpublished lecture from 100 MODERN SOUNDTRACKS) Fordham University, New York, 2005

RESIDENT EVIL: Neural Sound Design and Noise Attacks
(extended unpublished lecture from 100 MODERN SOUNDTRACKS) Storytelling: Interactivity, Sound & Music, AFTRS, Sydney, 2005

THE EXORCIST: Satanic Vocalization & Bodily Sounds
(extended unpublished lecture from 100 MODERN SOUNDTRACKS) Screen Studies & Research, AFTRS, Sydney, 2005

Aural Gazing: Recent Japanese Audio-Vision
Curated programme for Experimenta's VANISHING POINT exhibition, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, 2005

Cine-Rock: An Embarassment of Riches
CD notes to Morpho's MORPHO, Doctor Jim Records, Melbourne, 2005

ARASHI GA OKA: The Sound of the World Turned Inside-Out
Japanese Horror Cinema, Edinburugh University Press, Edinburugh, 2005

Celluloid Symphony
published in
Beomag (The Bang & Olufsen Magazine), Winter 2003, Melbourne

Sounds of Sex & Violence
Unpublished talk delivered at Adelaide International Film Festival, Adelaide, 2003

Noise & Conduction (With Passing Reference to the Absence of Ideas in Australian Cinema)
published in METRO No. 127, Melbourne, 2001

Baby, You're The Right Kind Of Wrong: Pop Music, Cinema & Other Holes
published in Photofile No.66, Sydney, 2002

Suburbia
CD notes for the Underground Lovers' MALLBOY soundtrack CD, 2001

Local Noise: Sound & Music in Australian Cinema
published in Real Time No.43, Sydney, 2001

Body Mats & Super Slams: Sport, Sound & Violence
unpublished notes from talk presented at the 4th CINESONIC: International Conference on Film Scores & Sound Design, Melbourne, 2001

Funny Accents: The Sound of Racism
published in CINESONIC: Experiencing The Soundtrack, AFTRS Publishing, Sydney, 2001

How Sound Floats on Land: The Suppression & Release of Folk & Indigenous Musics on the Cinematic Terrain
published in CINESONIC: Cinema & the Sound of Music, AFTRS Publishing, Sydney, 2000

In Memorium: Jack Nitzsche
published in Senses of Cinema No.9 - Melbourne, 2000

Being Blind: A Polemical Manual for Using New Audiovisual Technologies
published in Iris No.27 - special issue on the state of sound studies, Paris, 1999

I Scream In Silence: Cinema, Sex & the Sound of Women Dying
published in Cinesonic: The World of Sound in Film, AFTRS Publishing, Sydney, 1999

Dolby Stereo: Issues of Sound & Silence In Recordable Space
unpublished talk/slide-lecture delivered @ IMMERSION, Treasury Theatre, Melbourne, 1999

Music, HEAT & the soundtracks of Michael Mann
unpublished talk delivered @ for John Manogios Lecture Series, Kaleide Cinema, Melbourne, 1998

Spatial Logic & Dimensionality in Film
catalogue introduction for unpublished talk delivered @ Sound In Space, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 1995

Aspects of Sound & Music in Indigenous Cinema
unpublished talk delivered @ the Indigenous Narrative Drama Initiative, AFC, Melbourne, 1995

Sonic - Atomic - Neumonic: Post-Apocalyptic Echoes in Japanese Anime
paper presented at the 2nd International Conference on Animation, Sydney, 1995

Read My Lips: Notes on Film Dialogue
published in Matters Of Style - Continuum Vol.3 No.3, Perth, 1992

The Animation of Sound
published in The Illusion Of Life: 1st International Conference on Animation, Power Publications, Sydney, 1991

The Architecsonic Object: Stereo Sound, Cinema & COLORS
published in Culture, Technology & Creativity In The Late 20th Century, John Libbey Press, London, 1990

Film Narrative / Narrative Film / Music Narrative / Narrative Music
published in Cinema Papers No.71, Melbourne, 1989

The Non-Event of Sound in Video Art
published in Scan No.1, Sydney, 1989

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