Dr. Joseph Sannicandro is a scholar, sound organizer, and traveler based in Montréal. He is currently a lecturer in the department of Media Studies at SUNY Purchase. He studies creative labor and (un)popular culture, with a particular attention to sound.

Joseph earned a PhD from the department of Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, an MA from the department of Art History & Communication Studies at McGill University, and a BA from SUNY Purchase in History and Philosophy. He has also studied Writing, Political Theory, and International Relations at The New School, SFSU, and Beijing Foreign Studies University [Beiwai].

His dissertation, The Refusal of the Work of Art: Aesthetics and Autonomy in Italy, 1965-1985, is a cultural history of the Long 1970s in Italy organized around an investigation of the concept of work. He is currently developing a book project based on over a decade of interviews with Sound Propositions. 

His work has appeared in Cultural Critique, eContact, dpi., Carceral Notebooks, the Journal for Sonic Studies, and in edited book collections. He contributes regularly to A Closer Listen, a music blog dedicated to instrumental and experimental music, which he co-founded in 2012. He has previously contributed to The Silent Ballet, SSG Music, Cult MTL, and other publications, and is the sole producer of the Sound Propositions podcast. He also co-produced the podcast Réverbérations d’une crise with Hubert Gendron-Blais, a militant sound inquiry into Montreal’s housing crisis.

Joseph’s musical compositions and sound art projects have been published by international labels, broadcast on community and internet radio stations, presented in festivals such as Montreal’s Suoni per il Popolo, and at galleries and museums including IKLEKTIK (London), Diagonale (Montreal), the Museo del Sannio (Benevento, Italy) and the Istanbul Cinema Museum. He currently produces a bi-weekly internet radio show for CAMP [archive].

Music: Soundcloud, Bandcamp
Email: joseph.sannicandro@gmail.com
Twitter: @thenewobjective
Patreon: Sound Propositions

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