Angus Tarnawsky   ︎    b. 1988 in lutruwita (Tasmania, Australia)    

︎    angustarnawsky (at) gmail (dot) com
︎    @incontextmusic

Angus Tarnawsky is an artist, musician, curator and researcher. His recently completed doctoral work examines the social and political dimensions of hearing and listening through site-specific and place-responsive “sonic encounters” combining elements of field recording, dubplate cutting and dub audio (re)mixing. He is currently a SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Music at the University of British Columbia working with Dylan Robinson on the collaborative project “What does Canada sound like (to you)? Unsettling the World Soundscape Project, 1970-78.”


︎︎︎ CV - April 2026 (PDF download)


Expertise and Interests

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Research-Creation: Practice-based and practice-led approaches to research; Sound art projects and musical performances in mixed-used and shared urban spaces; Participant engagement and practices of co-creation.

Sound Studies: Expanded modes of hearing and listening in urban sonic environments; Everyday listening practices vis-a-vis colonialism and settler colonialism; Location (field) recording; Soundwalking; Sound mapping (and counter-mapping); Disc cutting lathes; Sound systems.

Media Production: Audio recording, editing, arranging and mixing (Ableton Live, Logic Pro X, Pro Tools, Adobe Audition, Audacity, et al.); Creative use (and strategic misuse) of analog and digital audio technologies; Micro-FM radio broadcasting; Lathe cut records, dubplates and experimental record making.