About

Joseph Sannicandro is a writer, sound organizer, and traveler based in Montréal. He is currently a lecturer in the department of Media Studies at SUNY Purchase. His work explores miscommunication,(un)popular culture, and the labor of creativity, with a particular focus on sound. Much of his scholarly work explores the analogue humanities.

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 The Oxford Art Journal, 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, of which he is a co-founder. 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.

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 museums including the Museo del Sannio in Benevento, Italy and the Istanbul Cinema Museum.

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

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