I ACKNOWLEDGE THE ABORIGINAL ANCESTORS OF THE KULIN NATION AND TO THOSE PRESENT THE LAND WHERE I WORK AND STUDY    AND I  CELEBRATE OUR UNDYING RESISTANCE AGAINST COLONIAL SYSTEMS H.RYAN 2024    

HaydenRyan
ACOUSTIC
 SOVEREIGNTIES




EMAIL
 hayden.ryan@rmit.edu.au
COMING UP
Transmission Point

PAST PROJECTS & EVENTS
HOME: Invisible Cities
PRS Work In Progress
AES Europe 2025
TENYA (Gabi Briggs) @ The Substation
Poly-Rhythmic: May 3 @ The Substation
The place we do not know is the place we are looking for
Blindside Exhibition: Acoustic Sovereignties
Practice Research Symposium
AES Europe 2024
Knowledge of Wounds
BIO

Hayden Ryan is an Aboriginal sound scholar and artist of Yuin descent from the south east coast of New South Wales, currently residing in Naarm (Melbourne, Australia). His work centres Indigenous sonic and spatial practice, a concept that realises the inextricability of land, body sound and culture within Indigenous knowledge systems.

In 2024, Hayden completed a Master of Music in Music Technology at New York University, where he wrote his thesis on Indigenising Sound Recording - focusing on colonial histories of audio technologies and their extractive functions. He has written and presented papers addressing the colonial underpinnings within sound studies and audio technology at the 2024 Audio Engineering Society conference in Madrid, Spain; and 2025 Audio Engineering Society conference in Warsaw, Poland. 

Hayden is currently a Vice-Chancellor’s Indigenous Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow at RMIT University, where he is working on a PhD in Design in the SIAL Sound Studios. His research explores how Indigenous people make sense of the world through acoustic practices.

EDUCATION

RMIT University 
PhD in Design (2024 - Present)

New York University
Master of Music in Music Technology (2022 - 2024)

RMIT University
Bachelor of Arts (Music Industry) (2019 - 2021)
PUBLICATIONS & MEDIA
DENOISING IS NOT A METAPHOR. UN PROJECTS. RESONANT IMAGINARIES AND SOUND CLASHES. 
RYAN, H. 2025. ACOUSTIC SOVEREIGNTIES: RESOUNDING INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE IN SOUND-BASED RESEARCH. AUDIO ENGINEERING SOCIETY JOURNAL.

ABSORBED TERRAIN INTERVIEW. FADE RADIO. (2025).

RYAN, H. 2024. INDIGENISING SOUND RECORDING: INTEGRATING AMBISONICS WITH INDIGENOUS SONIC & SPATIAL PRACTICE. AUDIO ENGINEERING SOCIETY JOURNAL.

RYAN, H (2024) INDIGENIZING SOUND RECORDING: RESISTING THE DESPATIALISATION OF INDIGENOUS SONIC & SPATIAL PRACTICE (MASTERS THESIS)


SCHOLARSHIPS & GRANTS

2025 Vice Chancellor’s Indigenous Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship
2025 Creative Australia - Helsinki International Artist Programme (Aug - Nov)
2024 Liquid Architecture x Blindside Emerging Curator Mentorship
2023 Audio Engineering Society - Educational Foundation Award
2023 New York University - Dean Mary Brabeck Scholarship
2022 Roberta Sykes Scholarship
2022 Australia Council for The Arts - First Nations Emerging Career Development Award
2021 American Australian Association - Aurora Indigenous Scholarship

SOUND & MUSICAL WORKS

Hangman (2025)
TENYA (Gabi Briggs) (2025)
Living Echoes (Dakota Feirer) (2024)
White Noise (2023-2024; 2025)
Sound Shell (2022)
53&17 Music Video (2020)