Recent Papers & Texts

comments on any of these articles are welcomed: truax@sfu.ca

(Note: see the complete list of academic publications including some pdf's; most older publications are available as pdf's on Academia.edu)

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Speech, Music, Soundscape and Listening: Interdisciplinary Explorations, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 2022.
Acoustic Sustainability in Urban Design: Lessons from the World Soundscape Project, Cities and Health, 2019.
Combining Performers with Soundtracks: Some Personal Experiences, Ideas Sonicas/Sonic Ideas, CMMAS, Vol. 9 no. 17, 2016 (HTML version here plus pdf; full text here)
Electroacoustic Music of Extended Duration: A Question of Format, Electroacoustic Music Studies conference (EMS14), Berlin, June 2014. (html materials and written paper)
Interacting with Inner and Outer Sonic Complexity: From microsound to soundscape composition, eContact 16(3), 2013 (Toronto International Electroacoustic Symposium presentation, August 2013), Italian translation in Musica/Tecnologia, 10, 2016, pp. 67-73.
From Epistemology to Creativity: A Personal View, Journal of Sonic Studies, no. 4, 2013.
Beyond Soundscape in the 21st Century, keynote address, Sonorities 2013, Queen's University, Belfast, April 2013. (html materials)
Music, Soundscape and Acoustic Sustainability, Moebius online journal, inaugural issue, 2012.
Sound, Listening and Place: The Aesthetic Dilemma, Organised Sound 17(3), 2012.
Jerry Pergolesi, "Quietly Assuming LGBTQ Leadership in New Music," Musicworks, No. 108, 2010, pp. 24-30.
Soundscape Composition as Global Music: Electroacoustic Music as Soundscape, Organised Sound 13(2), 2008.
“A Voice for All Seasons,” in C. Lane, ed. Playing with Words, CRISAP/RGAP, 2008.
The Analysis of Electroacoustic Music as Soundscape, EMS07 Conference, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, June 2007.
Artist Presentation, The Art of Immersive Soundscapes, University of Regina, June 2007.

Electroacoustic Music and the Visual, Academy of Electroacoustic Music text, Bourges, June 2005.
Music and Science Meet at the Micro Level: Time-Frequency Methods and Granular Synthesis, Musica Viva conference, Coimbra, Portugal, September, 2003.
Homoeroticism and Electroacoustic Music: Absence and Personal Voice, Organised Sound, 8(1), 2003.
Genres and Techniques of Soundscape Composition as Developed at Simon Fraser University, Organised Sound, 7(1), 5-14, 2002.
Electroacoustic Music and the Digital Future," Circuit: musiques contemporaines, 13(1), 21-26, 2002.

Stretching Time Stretching Sound, Musicworks, Cover Article by Randy Raine-Reusch, no. 79, Spring 2001, pp. 13-19.

Composition and Diffusion: Space in Sound in Space, Organised Sound, 3(2), 141-6, 1999.

Time and Electroacoustic Music, Academy of Electroacoustic Music text, Bourges, June 1999.

Feature Article, "In Person", The Globe and Mail, Sept. 12, 1998.

Models and Strategoies for Acoustic Design, Acoustic Ecology Conference paper, Stockholm, June 1998.

Letter to a 25-Year Old Electroacoustic Composer, Academy of Electroacoustic Music text, Bourges, June 1998.

Listening and the Electroacoustic Community, Ganzohr Symposium text, Kassel, Sept. 1997.

Composition and Diffusion: Space in Sound in Space, Academy of Electroacoustic Music text, Bourges, June 1997.

Soundscape, Acoustic Communication, and Environmental Sound Composition, Contemporary Music Review, 15(1), 1996.

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