DrDiana Chester
(She/They)
Senior Lecturer in Media Production: Audio & Video
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
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- Senior Lecturer in Media Production: Audio & VideoFaculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Research projects & supervision summary
Current Research Projects
- Listening to Earth
- Sounding Antarctica, Collaboration with the Dr. Petra Heil at the Australia Antarctic Division & Sean Minhui Tashi Chua, NANSEN Center. Sastrugi:Sounds of Antarctic Sea Ice, Mona Foma Festival (2024)
- Sonifying the Astrographic Catalogue
- Harmonising Mountains: Ancestral Earth listening and communication practices in Mongolia
Prior Research Projects
- Nanoresonance creatively expressing scientific data: Sydney Nano Catalyst Grant
- Sounding Untold Histories of The Lipka Tatars of Brooklyn, New York in Collaboration with Yale's Material and Visual Cultures of Religion & Professor Kambiz Ghaneabassiri
- Women in Sound Women on Sound
- Sound Mapping the Call to Prayer: A web-based, crowd sourced collection of sound recordings of the call to prayer recorded around the world
Supervision
- Vicky Zhou: DMA: Extending soundscapes: representation of intangible cultural heritage with 360 virtual technologies and ambisonic (ongoing)
- Trent Crawford: PhD: Sonic Urban Exploration: Connection between disused urban environments and electroacoustic music composition (completed)
- Conor Spence: PhD: Differentiation and Emergence: Reconceptualising the Digital Object (completed)
RESEARCH PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONEmergence and Differentiation: Reconceptualising the Digital Object
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONExtending Soundscapes: 360° Virtual Environments and Ambisonic Representation towards Sustainable Listening
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONSonic Urban Exploration: Connections between disused urban environments and electroacoustic music composition