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

︎    angus.tarnawsky@concordia.ca
︎    @incontextmusic

Angus Tarnawsky is an artist, musician, curator and researcher, currently living and working in London (UK). As a musical improviser and audio engineer, he has worked extensively with lathe cut records and dubplates, often through site-specific and place-responsive performances, installations, workshops and archival practices. As a curator, he has released a wide range of experimental audio works on his label, In Context Music (ICM). He has recently completed a PhD in Communication at Concordia University (Tiohtià:ke/Montréal), where he investigated the social and political dimensions of hearing and listening in urban spaces. Several phases of this work are documented in the recent book chapter, “What do I hear, and how do I listen? Thinking with sound on the Lachine Canal” as part of Palgrave Macmillan's edited volume, “Sound Research for Troubling Times.”


︎︎︎ CV - March 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.