Gascia Ouzounian

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Dr Gascia Ouzounian is Senior Lecturer in Music at Queen’s University Belfast. As a musicologist and artist her work is positioned in relation to experimental traditions of the last century. Her writing examines the topic of sound and space in a number of contexts: sound installation art, site-specific sound, the history of spatial audio, acoustic mapping, and sound art in urban and public space. As a violinist and artist she has performed and presented her work internationally, at venues including Carnegie Hall, STEIM, Modern Art Oxford, Diapason Gallery, Issue Project Room and others.

In 2013 Ouzounian founded Optophono, a label that publishes interactive works of music and sound art. Along with the architect Sarah Lappin she co-directs the interdisciplinary research group Recomposing the City. From 2015 to 2018 Ouzounian and Lappin will lead the project "Hearing Trouble: Sound Art in Post-Conflict Cities", generously funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council of the UK.

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  • Sonic Places: In Conversation with Peter Cusack (2016) author(s): Sarah Lappin, Gascia Ouzounian published in: Journal of Sonic Studies
    In this interview, Recomposing the City co-directors Sarah Lappin and Gascia Ouzounian talk with Peter Cusack about his recent work, reflecting in particular on relationships between sound, sound art, planning processes, and urban communities. Cusack, a field recordist and sound artist, has been a leading figure in acoustic ecology and soundscape studies for more than two decades. Cusack created one of the earliest collaborative sound mapping projects, Favourite Sounds (1998-), in which he invited people to record, share, and describe positive aspects of their everyday sound environments. Among other things, Favourite Sounds has been influential in inspiring the recent proliferation of online sound maps, establishing a framework for producing collective ideas of soundscape, and suggesting approaches to urban sound that extend beyond noise pollution.
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  • Editorial: Recomposing the City: New Directions in Urban Sound Art (2016) author(s): Gascia Ouzounian, Sarah Lappin published in: Journal of Sonic Studies
    In the first year of Recomposing the City we hosted over a dozen public seminars, concerts, exhibitions, and an International Symposium in Belfast. The papers collected in this volume of the Journal of Sonic Studies (JSS) stem from the Recomposing the City International Symposium in 2014, a lively gathering that was followed with an equally stimulating Postgraduate Student Symposium in 2015. However, the papers published in this present volume represent only a small part of the dialogue that Recomposing the City has facilitated. Thus, in this editorial we will reflect on our group’s larger concerns as well as on the insights of those artists and scholars who have generously contributed to this ongoing dialogue.
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