Introduction

Over four decades I have worked across music, technology, disability and culture, developing research that moves between creative practice and critical reflection. My work often begins with a compositional question — about listening, pattern, constraint or perception — and expands outward into questions of history, accessibility, and digital culture.

I have led and contributed to numerous funded and unfunded projects, published books and articles across multiple disciplines, edited journals and series, and presented internationally. The scale of this activity is documented on the Publications and Projects pages. What unites it is less a single field than a persistent set of concerns: how we listen, how technologies shape perception, and how different bodies and minds encounter sound.

Alongside my own research, I have founded and directed several interdisciplinary institutes and programmes, helping to build research environments that connect creative practice with computing, cultural history and inclusive design. I have also served as a scientific expert on major national and European funding panels, including the European Research Council and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowships.

My more recent research has been shaped by lived experience of hearing loss, balance disorder and autism. This has led to projects such as Aural Diversity, Digital Syzygies and other explorations of neurodivergent listening — work that brings composition, scholarship and advocacy into conversation.

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