Book Chapters, Articles & Conferences


Lecture. Circular flow: information transfer between internal and external representations in guitar performance

The Guitar Foundation of America Conference 2024 - CSU Fullerton, Los Angeles, California, June 18, 2024


Lecture. Before The Universe Was Born: Just Intonation Common-Tone Techniques from Rădulescu's 5th Quartet

Association of Canadian Women Composers - ACWC Lecture Series, Virtual, April 18, 2024

Fountain School of Performing Arts Research Forum, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, February 29, 2024


Lecture. The influence of white supremacy on guitar notation
The Guitar Foundation of America Conference 2023, Manhattan School of Music, NYC, June 20, 2023


Book Chapter. ‘Augmented reality guitars’ (2023) in 21st Century Guitar – Evolutions and Augmentations. Bloomsbury Academic. Edited by Rich Perks and John McGrath.

https://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/21st-century-guitar-9781501373305/


Panel member. AR roundtable on Mixed Realities as NIMEs

New Interfaces for Musical Expression Conference NIME 2023, Mexico City, Mexico (Virtual), May 29, 2023


Book Chapter. 'Perceptual and visuomotor feedforward patterns as an element of jazz guitar improvisation practice and pedagogy.' (2022) in Quand la guitare [s']électrise! edited by de Navarret, de Battier, de Bruguière, & de Gonin. Sorbonne Université Press.

https://sup.sorbonne-universite.fr/catalogue/arts-et-esthetique/musiques/quand-la-guitare-selectrise


Article. ‘an inexhaustible source of wild music: UTEMS, Guitar ’75 and the early evolution of Canadian works for guitar and electronics’. In Musicworks, Summer, 2020.

https://www.musicworks.ca/feature/Canadian-compositions-guitar-electronics


Lecture. Composing for AR space: creating interactive spatial scores for the METAVision headset

Forum IRCAM - McGill University, Montreal, QC, (Virtual) March 23, 2021


Online presentation. Guitar performance and motor learning

The Guitar Foundation of America, University of Denver, Virtual, October 11, 2020


Article. 'How the guitar shapes us.' Two-part article on motor control and guitar performance. In Soundboard: vol. 45 nos. 1 and 2. Published in Spring and Fall 2019. (This article was co-authored by my supervisor, Dr. David Westwood)

LINK TO PDF


Paper in absentia. Perceptuomotor encoding of complex movements and the feedforward process of jazz guitar improvisation

IGRC Hong Kong International Guitar Symposium 2019 - Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, July 14, 2019


Lecture. Exploring neuroplasticity, bimanual control and interhemispheric inhibition in classical guitarists  

The Guitar Foundation of America Conference 2018 - University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, June 22, 2018


Lecture. Motor learning, perceptual patterns and guitar notation in augmented reality

Material Cultures of Music Notation Conference, Utrecht University, April 20-22, 2018


Proceedings. 'The uniquely complex bimanual task of classical guitar performance: examining instrument-specific interhemispheric inhibition in guitarists.' Conference proceedings of IX Guitar Academic Symposium of EMBAP/UNESPAR, Curitiba, Brazil, November 1-4, 2017.

https://embap.curitiba1.unespar.edu.br/menu-pesquisa/publicacoes/Anais_IX_SAVEmbap_com_capa_final.pdf


Lecture. Exploring the role of auditory, visual and sensorimotor feedback in the execution of jazz guitar improvisations

Improvising Brain III Conference, Georgia State University, Atlanta, February 26-28, 2017


Panel Discussion. Literacy, pedagogy and the development of contemporary electric guitar                

International Guitar Research Centre Conference, University of Surrey, Guildford UK, March 18-24, 2016


Lecture. Eddie Lang & Dave Berend: Creativity and Cognition in Early Jazz Guitar Pedagogy 1925–1936

Instrument of Change The International Rise of the Guitar (c.1870–1945)

Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne, December 9-11, 2016 


Article. 'The scientific method book: the potential for interdisciplinary study in jazz guitar pedagogy.'

Just Jazz Guitar Magazine. (87) May, 2016.