Sharon Stewart

Since graduating with a masters on the topic Feminism, Technology, Improvisation in a music pedagogical practice from the Royal Conservatoire, Den Haag, Sharon Stewart has been involved in creating sonic works. A core teacher for the Center for Deep Listening® at RPI, writings include the article Listening to Deep Listening (2012, Journal of Sonic Studies) and Inquiring into the Hack (2020, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art), regarding new sonic and institutional practices.

She was on the editorial team of and contributed to the APRIA issue Time Matters (2021) and co-hosted one episode of the Sounding Places / Listening Places podcast series while creating the Deep Listening® podcast miniseries for ArtEZ Studium Generale. Her most recent publication on APRIA is Welcoming Visitors into the Polyphonic Landscapes Artistic Research Project Ecosystem (2024) that discusses the role of the (uninitiated) audience member as knowledge-contributor within an artistic research project.

These investigations into listening as a tool to radically reform institutions led her to her current topic – listening with sites of learning in the arts, involving field recordings and the aesthetics of sound design, sonic ethnographic methods and Deep Listening®.