Patrick Valiquet is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Music at the University of Edinburgh, where he holds a two-year grant from the Fonds de Recherche du Québec - Société et Culture. He recently completed his DPhil in Music at St Catherine's College, Oxford with a research studentship on an ERC Advanced Grant-funded programme directed by Georgina Born, and a fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. His doctoral thesis examined the role of digitalisation in claims to social and aesthetic change among electroacousticians and sound artists in the Canadian city of Montreal.
Patrick's interest in the history and theory of electronic art music grows out of his work as a musician and studies at McGill University, Concordia University, and the Institute of Sonology. His research highlights exchanges with engineering and the human sciences that have informed electronic art music's aesthetics and technological politics. Current projects include an investigation into the personal archive of Quebecois composer Marcelle Deschênes that tracks the translation of pedagogical practices and aural epistemologies between the electroacoustic scenes in France and Quebec in the 1970s and 80s.
