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

︎    angus.tarnawsky@concordia.ca
︎    @incontextmusic

Angus Tarnawsky is an artist, musician, curator and researcher, currently based in London (UK). As an artist and musical improviser, he has worked extensively with lathe cut records and dubplates, often through site-specific and place-responsive performances, installations, workshops, recordings and other archival practices. As a curator, he has released a wide range of experimental audio works on his label, In Context Music (ICM). As a PhD candidate at Concordia University (Tiohtià:ke/Montréal), he investigates 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 - Dec 2025 (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.