Dr Diana Chester

Dr. Diana Chester is a sound studies scholar, educator, and artist whose work produces critically influential studies, methods, and outputs that use sound to traverse disciplinary boundaries using feminist, de-colonial, and post-anthropocentric approaches to thinking and making. Their work draws from sound studies, archival studies, and ethnography and relies on field recording and composition to explore sound in diverse contexts by putting research and practice in direct conversation—deepening the capacities of both. Current projects include the study of sound and culture focused on religion and the environment, the audio essay as a form of sonic scholarship, and new artistic methods and practices to sonify scientific data sets. Chester is the author of Sonic Encounters: The Islamic Call to Prayer published by Rowman and Littlefield, holds a senior lecturer role in Media and Communications at the University of Sydney, is editor of Interference Journal, and sits on the board of the World Listening Project.