Associate ProfessorDugal McKinnon
Associate Professor
School of Music
BIO
I'm a composer, sound artist, and researcher based in Aotearoa New Zealand. My practice oscillates around a fundamental question: what and how does sound allow us to know and feel? Working in electronic music, spatial audio, and interdisciplinary collaboration, I make work that listens to the world as much as it sounds it — compositions for icosahedral and ambisonic loudspeaker arrays, generative modular synthesis, immersive and intimate installations, collaborations with filmmakers and kinetic sculptors, alongside pieces harnessing voice, instruments, electronics, text, and soundscapes. Scholarly inquiry and artistic practice are synergistic in my work, pitched to the material, ecological, and posthuman dimensions of sound and music, and the ways these resonate with space and place. I have been composer-in-residence at IEM Graz (Austria), ZKM Karlsruhe (Germany), and STEIM Amsterdam, and the Lab for Electroacoustic Music Research and Applications, Ionian University (Corfu, Greece). My work is performed, exhibited, and published internationally and in Aotearoa. I hold a PhD from the University of Birmingham (UK) and teach sonic art, composition, and sound studies at the Te Kōkī where I co-directs the Lilburn Studios for Electronic Music.
DEGREES
- BA, BMus(Hons)Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
- PhDUniversity of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
- 4 Quality Education
- 13 Climate Action
- 5 Gender Equality
- 10 Reduced Inequalities
- 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
- 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
- 15 Life on Land
- 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
AVAILABILITY
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision