Randolph Jordan
Randolph Jordan, PhD, is a Research Associate with the World Soundscape Project at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver where he is designing research methodologies to address the enmeshing of media and place. He teaches in the Humanities department at Champlain College Saint-Lambert in Montreal. His research, teaching, and creative practice reside at the intersections of film studies, sound studies, and critical geography. His recent work has focused on the relationship between the World Soundscape Project and the broader media landscape of Vancouver, British Columbia. He has contributed anthology chapters on the politics of location sound in Vancouver films to Cinephemera (McGill-Queen’s), The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound, and Critical Distance in Documentary Media (Palgrave), and have published related work on the Sounding Out! blog and in UBC’s film journal Cinephile. His multi-media project Bell Tower of False Creek engages with contested land use around Vancouver’s Burrard Bridge, which he has written about for Soundscape: The Journal of Acoustic Ecology. The Bell Tower film component has screened at festivals and symposiums internationally, and he has recently completed work on a multi-channel sound installation for the Impostor Cities project at the Canadian pavilion of the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale, exploring the mediated soundscapes of Canadian architecture in foreign film productions. He is co-editor of Sound, Media, Ecology with Milena Droumeva (Simon Fraser University), published by Palgrave in July 2019, and completing a monograph for Oxford University Press entitled An Acoustic Ecology of the Cinema.