School of Creative Arts

Key Roles 
Director of Performance Studies

Selected Publications  

Ouzounian G. (2011) 'The Uncertainty of Experience: On George Brecht's Event Scores'. Journal of Visual Culture 10(2): 198-211. 

Ouzounian, G. (2010). 'Interview with Paul DeMarinis'. Computer Music Journal 34(4): 10-21.

Ouzounian, G. (2010). 'The Luminous Ear: An Introduction to the Sounding Visions of Paul DeMarinis' in I. Beirer, S. Himmelsbach, and C. Seiffarth (eds.), Paul DeMarinis: Buried in Noise: 9-21. Heidelberg and Berlin: Kehrer Verlag.

Ouzounian, G. (2009). 'Bay Area Women in Creative Music'. Women & Music: A  Journal of Gender and Culture (13): 106-108. 

Ouzounian, G. (2009). 'Impure Thinking Practices and Clinical Acts: The Sonorous Becomings of Heidi Fast'. Organised Sound14(1): 75-81.

Ouzounian, G. (2008). 'Contemporary Radio Art and Spatial Politics: The Critical Radio Utopias of Anna Friz'. Radio Journal 5(2&3): 129-142.

Ouzounian, G. (2008). 'History, an Exit Strategy: The RetroFuture Fabulations of kara lynch.' Journal of the Society for American Music 2(2): 177-201.

Ouzounian, G. (2007). 'Visualizing Acoustic Space: The Story of Poeme électronique'. Revue Circuit 17(3): 45-56.

Ouozunian, G. (2006). 'Embodied Sound: Aural Architectures and the Body.' Contemporary Music Review 25(1-2): 69-79. 

Selected Compositions and Installations

Ouzounian, G. with R. Benjamin Knapp and Eric Lyon. 'Music for Sleeping & Waking Minds' (2011).

An ensemble of 4 performers who wear custom-designed EEG monitors generate an immersive sound environment through their brainwaves as they rest, sleep, and awaken over the course of one night.

View programme notes and essay 'On Music as a State of Being' (2011) by G. Ouzounian

View Excerpt (Introductory video)   

Ouzounian, G. and Conan McIvor, 'If The Root Be In Confusion Nothing Will Be Well Governed' (2010).

A multi-channel audio and video installation of 'Paragraph 7' from Cornelius Cardew's 'The Great Learning' (1969) featuring Bird On A Wire. In the installation, two different recordings of 'Paragraph 7' from are screened simultaneously on opposing walls in a darkened room. Each screen shows 4 simultaneously recorded videos inter-weaved to appear as a single, continuous shot.

Installed at Ormeau Baths Gallery 'Arrivals' Exhibition curated by Ciara Hickey (29 July - 11 September 2010)

View Excerpt (single wall projection only)

Ouzounian, G. and Chloe Griffin, 'EDEN EDEN EDEN' (2009).

An overnight audiovisual composition for 13 musicians and film projections. The ensemble continuously constructs and deconstructs a 26-part chord, a 13-part natural harmonic series that always beats in near-unison with itself. A projector shows three superimposed films prepared as continuously extending loops. Members of the audience, who are invited to sleep during the performance, shift between waking and dreaming states.

View Excerpt from the premiere at Basso (Berlin, 15-16 April 2009)

Selected Conference Presentations

• Ouzounian, Gascia. 'I Am Not a DMI... Or Am I?'. Music, Digitisation, and Mediation, University of Oxford, Oxford (July 11-13 2013).
• Ouzounian, Gascia. 'The Body's Music: Physiological Interfaces in Musical Performance." Performa, University of Aveiro, Portugal (May 19-21, 2011).
• Ouzounian, Gascia and R. Benjamin Knapp. "Bodies as (Critical) Instruments: BioMusic and its Discontents." Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology, Paris (October 26-29, 2009).
• Ouzounian, Gascia. "History, an Exit Strategy: Race, Haunting, and Memory in kara lynch's Invisible." American Musicological Society, Nashville (November 6-9, 2008).
• Ouzounian, Gascia. “Conceptual Sound Forms: The Event, Action Music, and Performance-Sculpture, 1958-1980.” Performance Studies International, New York University (November 8-11, 2007).
• Ouzounian, Gascia. “Imagined States: Anna Friz’s Radio Utopias.” Feminist Theory and Music, Montreal (June 6-10, 2007).
• Ouzounian, Gascia. “Becoming Media: Post-War Electronic Music and the Politics of Informationalism.” Society for American Music. Eugene, Oregon (February 16-20, 2005)

Invited Lectures

• New York University, Music & Audio Research Lab (MARL). September 2013.
• Sussex University, Mediamorphosis. May 2013.
• Oxford University, Music, Sound & Space: Transformations of Public and Private Experience (ed. Georgina Born). Launch event. March 2013.
• Oxford University, Music & Digitalisation Research Group: 'Retheorising the mutual mediation of technology and aesthetics: The Case of Music'. October 2012. 
• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Institute for Creativity, Art and Technology. May 2012.
• Keynote Lecture. Conference on Temporality: Issues of Change and Stasis in Music. Graduate Musicology Association, California State University at Long Beach, 21 April 2012.
• Stanford University, Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, April 2012.
• New York University, Department of Music. March 2012.
• Concordia University, Department of Communication Studies & Department of Music, February 2012.
• F.E. McWilliam Gallery, Banbridge, Northern Ireland. November 2011.
• Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast. Lecture & workshop with the Biomuse Trio. January 2011.
• PLACE, the Architecture and Built Environment Centre for Norther Ireland. Roundtable discussion on 'Sound and the City'. 6 May 2010.

Research Grants and Fellowships

• QUB Rising Star Teaching Award (2013)
• Griffin Foundation (2012)
• Canada Council for the Arts, Grants to Professional Musicians - Individuals (2012)
• Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Support for the Individual Artist Programme(2011)
• Canada Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), 2 year Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship (2008, declined due to accepting teaching post)
• Banff Centre, Fellowship for Artist-In-Residence program (2007-08)
• UC San Diego, Graduate Student Teaching Fellowship (2006)
• UC San Diego, Center for Humanities, Dissertation Fellowship (2005)
• Canada Council for the Arts, Grants for Individual Artists (2004)
• UC Institute for the Arts, Special Projects Grant, co-recipient with Teknika Radica (2003)
• UC San Diego, University Humanities Fellowship (2001-05)