Refereed Scholarly Articles:
R• "The Icebreaker: Soundscape works as everyday sound art." Organised Sound, Vol. 14, #1 (2009), pp. 83-88.
R• "Radio Activity: Articulating the Theremin, Ondes Martenot and Hammond Organ." Wi: Journal of Mobile Media, Spring (2009). http://wi.hexagram.ca/?p=44
R• "The Affect of Selection in Digital Sound Art." M/C Journal, Vol. 8, #3 (2005). http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0507/03-chapman.php
R• "Mixing With Records," M/C Journal, 4.2 (2001). Apr. 2001 http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0104/records.php
Thesis Project :
R• "Selected Sounds: A collective investigation into the practice of sample-based music." Ph.D. Thesis Project In Communication Studies, Concordia University (2007).
Published proceedings, book chapters and contributions to a collective work (including chapters written on invitation or collective works derived from conferences or symposiums):
• “CD cover text for Selected Sounds: A collective investigation into the practice of sample-based music”, Pivot: An interdisciplinary graduate journal of visual culture, Vol. 1, #1 (2007)
• with Anna Friz, "To Big for Their Beats?: Questions for the microsound revolution," Graduate Researcher: Journal for the arts, sciences and technology, Vol. 1, #2 (2003)
Conference Presentations:
• “Sampling, Remix and Improvisation with Records, or ‘How the Turntable Taught Me to Play the Drums.” Lex Non Scripta, Ars Non Scripta: Law, Justice & Improvisation Conference, Montreal, June 20th, 2009
• "Radio Activités: à la recherche des ondes musicales." Canadian Communication Association Annual Conference, Vancouver, June 4th 2008
• "The Ice-xylophone." Housing the Body / Dressing the Environment, Montreal, August 24th, 2007
• "With Love, From Me, For You": The affect of commissions on sound art" In and Out of the Sound Studio, Montreal, July 28th, 2005
• "Sonic Sedition through Aural Audition: Who’s got the conch in sample-based music?" On the Right Track: IASPM-Canada Annual Conference, Ottawa, May 16th, 2004
• with Anna Friz, "Locking on Popping," R/Evolution III, Montreal, March 19th, 2004
Book Reviews:
• "Book review of 'Rhythm Science' by Paul D. Miller (a.k.a. DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid), The Canadian Journal of Communication, Vol. 30 #4 (2005)
• "Book Review of 'Hop on Pop: The politics and pleasures of popular culture'". Edited by Henry Jenkins, Tara McPherson, & Jane Shattuc'." The Canadian Journal of Communication, Vol. 30 #1 (2005)
Editorials:
• "Active Radio" Wi: Journal of Mobile Media, Spring (2009). http://wi.hexagram.ca/?p=44
Invited Presentations:
Moderator/Discussant, “What is Research, Session 1: Art as Research” Roundtable and discussion hosted by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture, Concordia University, Nov 6th 2009
• “Bluetooth Beats” -- Commissioned by Concordia Vice Provost Ollivier Dyens for the President’s Conference Series event at Concordia entitled Every Breath You Take: Surveillance, Security and the End of Privacy, Nov 4th, 2009. This is an interactive audio composition enabled through Bluetooth file sharing and cell phones.
• Keynote presenter with Anna Friz, "Anna and Owen's Transmission Re-pair," - a performance based in remixing, sample exchange, live sampling, and improvisation. Presented at the workshop Copyright's Counterparts hosted by Queen's University, Aug 7, 2008.
• Work in Progress Presentation: "The Icebreaker: A new audio art performance piece and installation." Espace Art&D, an associated wing of the Société des arts technologiques (S.A.T.), March 20th, 2008. I was invited by Erin Manning and Brian Massumi, directors of the Montreal-based group "The Senselab" (http://senselab.org).
• Invited panelist at a workshop on "Copyright and Community Radio" during Redefining Media: Media Democracy and Community Radio hosted by CKUT FM (Montreal), Oct 21st, 2007.
• Invited panelist at "Cramping my Sampling" workshop during the Pop and Policy: Music Fast Forward, McGill School of Music, Montreal, Oct 5th, 2007.
• Keynote presenter with Andra McCartney, "Ephemerality and the Population of Sound Studies", Making Waves: A graduate symposium on sound scholarship, Concordia University, March 30th, 2007
• "Panel: Droit d'auteur," R/evolution: 4ième conference annuelle repensez-y, Parliament Hill, Sept 18th, 2004 (invited expert panelist)
Forthcoming Contributions:
R• “‘Is it Live?’ Aura and Audio”, accepted for publication by The Canadian Journal Of Communication, 43 page scholarly article with references - to be published in the Feb 2010 issue.
R• with Mél Hogan (equal co-authors), “Sampling, Remixing and Alternative Economies for Audio File Sharing,” submitted to Critical Studies in Improvisation on Dec. 15th 2009. 30 pages.