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

︎    angus (dot) tarnawsky (at) ubc (dot) ca
︎    @incontextmusic

Angus Tarnawsky is an artist, researcher and curator whose work examines the social, political and technological dimensions of hearing, listening and sounding. Through collaborative sonic practices, archival analysis, ethnographic interviews and autoethnographic writing, his research investigates how audio technologies and cultural ideologies inform modes of attention and ignorance. As part of this work, he facilitates “sonic encounters” with microphones, portable recording devices, sound systems and lathe cut records. He is currently a Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of British Columbia, working with Dylan Robinson on the project “What does Canada sound like (to you)? Unsettling the World Soundscape Project.”


︎︎︎ CV - June 2026 (PDF download)


Research Areas

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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.

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.

Media Production: Audio recording, editing, arranging and mixing; Creative use (and strategic misuse) of analog and digital audio technologies; Micro-FM radio broadcasting; Lathe cut records, dubplates and experimental record making.