Curriculum Vitae

Current Forms of Engagement

Keening Place
1. Beach 2. Forest 3. Tresspass 4. Behind the Village
A spoken-word and soundscape composition and performance. (in production for Radio without Borders Festival, Toronto, May, 2009, and the World Forum of Acoustic Ecology, Mexico, March, 2009)
The Song of Grendel
A soundscape and spokenword compositional work retelling the Beowulf saga from Grendel’s point of view inspired by John Gardner’s novel, “Grendel”. In the novel, Grendel’s outrage is in response to the intrusion into an ancient forest by the precurser of modern man, which in this new composition manifests as an instance of acoustic ecological degradation. (Proposed: NAISA and CBC’s Outfront)
Seton’s Czech Woodcraft Scouts and Indians
Radio Documentary Feature for Prague Radio Valtava.
Scheduled to air, Dec. 2009.
Dissertation Proposal
Part 1. Seton, Woodcraft, and Bohemia (1968 – present)
Part 2. Listening as Dwelling in Nature
Vancouver 2010 Soundmap
Canadian Association for Sound Ecology (CASE), Vancouver Soundwalk Collective Initiative (proposed)

The Sonorous Forest at the Edge of the World, a multimedia multidisciplinary inquiry into the space-meaning-making of an old Bohemian forest on the edge of a village, its various and historical constructions as “nature”, its shifting soundscapes and histories as a peopled place. Essays for publication, radio documentary-feature, soundscape / spoken-word performance, poetry manuscript compiled into a dissertation that is about the learning space of nature and the creative process as sound / poetry / multidisciplinarity in arts-based research.
E. T. Seton and the Woodcraft Legacy, a series of radio documentary-features (with soundscape) for Prague Radio 3 Vltatava (see above); WDR Radio Koln; BB4. In Production 2009/2010
Sounding Nature: comprehensive exams Completed October, 2008.
1. The Wildman Wilderness Imaginary
2. Seton and Woodcraft: nature and the animal reconstructed
3. The Poet Sounding Research: the Researcher Sounding Poetry (in publication)

A Poet in Sound Research; A Researcher Sounding Poetry
The Sonorous Village In/verse: a poetic inquiry into the nature of erasure and the erasure of nature.
Of Nature, Sound and Rhythm: A poetic inquiry.
Re-Sounding Space: Opening postmodern critical theory to the soundscape.
Sensate Erudition: Embodiment of Nature, Sound and Rhythm
Ernest Thompson Seton and the Canadian Wilderness Imaginary
Immigrant Immitations: The Indian is us.

The radio-documentary-feature as soundscape art, as a European art form, as a research model.
The “social” soundscape, sound and poetry, soundscape analysis. acoustic mapping and art.
Czech Indian-hobbyism and Tramping; its history and movement during Communism and Prague Spring.
Czech woodcraft movement and Ernest Thompson Seton.
German Indian-hobbyism and Karl May.
Canadian and British Columbian First Nations Literature.

The acoustic event, ecology and soundscape. (R. Murray Schafer, J. A. Fisher, S. Feld)
Place and Space Theory: Henri Lefebvre’s notions of the realistic/transparent illusion, second nature, villages (urban and rural)Second Nature (forests and natives).
Derrida’ deconstruction of nature, wilderness, the self and other, the animal, justice, the archive, place and non-place (Khora).

Radio Documentary Feature Producer – Freelance
Translator, Czech Republic
Research Assistant, Dr. Graeme Chalmers, Director, Center for Cross-faculty Inquiry
Research Assistant, Community Service Learning, Library, UBC
Academic Resource and Web Content Manager, Learning and Academic Enhancement
Partnership, Student Development Office, UBC
Lead Peer, Peer Program, Chapman Learning Commons, Library, UBC
Research Assistant, Faculty of Education, Art Education, UBC
Arts Administrator, Vancouver Jewish Historical Society Archive, Vancouver Jewish Film Festival
Executive Assistant, S. D. Woodman Management Ltd.
Capital Campaign Manager, Building Bridges Campaign, Eitz Chaim Synagogue Outreach
Executive Assistant , Business Ethics Institute @ SFU

Uncensored, Freedom to Read Week, Annual Event Organizer
New Shoots, UHill High-school, Creative Writing and Publishing for Teens, Poet
Wilde About Sappho, Lambda Foundation National Reading Series, Organizer
Mature Student Orientation, Committee Member

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