Dugal McKinnon

Dr Dugal McKinnon works in the collision zones between sound, music, language, and acoustic, visual and digital media.

Recent projects include: This Storm Is Called Progress (2016), with Grayson Cooke, an audiovisual installation shortlisted for the Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize (South Australian Museum); Lost Oscillations (2015), with Jim Murphy and Mo H. Zareei, a touch-based augmented-reality sound installation, commissioned by the 2015 Audacious Festival of Sonic Arts (Christchurch); and let x = (2014) for icosahedral loudspeaker and 24-channel loudspeaker array, commissioned by IEM.

He has been a resident artist at IEM (Graz, Austria) and ZKM (Karlsruhe, Germany), and STEIM (Amsterdam). He holds a doctorate in composition from the University of Birmingham (UK), which was completed while a guest artist in the electronic music studios of TU-Berlin. His recent writings focus on ecological and material practices in sound-based art. Dougal is Deputy Director of the New Zealand School of Music and Co-Director of the Lilburn Studios for Electronic Music