Chris is an associate lecturer and PhD candidate in Music at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he studies with Prof John Drever and Dr Yasmin Gunaratnam. His research is practice-based and involves working collaboratively with people who have a dementia to produce sonic ethnography compositions exploring our respective ways of listening. Chris is also an hourly paid part-time lecturer at the University of Greenwich and a co-founder of the soundware label ModeAudio.
Awards
CHASE PhD studentship
Recognition
Aural Diversity
Research / Scholarly interests
Sound studies, sonic ethnography, disability studies, field recording, practice-based methodologies.
Recent publications
Cook, C.J.H. (forthcoming 2021) ‘Trevurr: A Dialogic Composition on Dementia, Auraldiversity, and Companion Listening’. Organised Sound 26(2).
Cook, C.J.H. (forthcoming) ‘Socialising and Musicking with Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Case Study from Rural Cornwall’, in Hugill, A. and Drever, J.L. (eds) Aural Diversity. London: Routledge.