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





ROLES

Spatial Sound Artist

PhD - RMIT University

Assoc. Lecturer in Immersive Sound Environments - RMIT University

Creative Producer: First Nations Programming - Liquid Architecture
EMAIL(S)
 hayden.ryan@rmit.edu.au
 hayden@liquidarchitecture.org.au
CURRENT & COMING UP
Wowatjumatj Woka (Moorina Bonini) @ Agency Projects
Friday Night Social: Radio Climate
Hyperspace: Live Coding Festival

PAST PROJECTS & EVENTS
Composite Commission w/ Rosalind Hall
Live at the MCA: 50 Years of Deadly
Sovereignty & Sonic Resistance: Hayden Ryan, Raven Chacon, Kimberley Molton
Practice Research Symposium: Acoustic Sovereignties
Transmission Point
Dinner Club: How are we listening...? with un Magazine
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:  Raven Chacon x Hayden Ryan
BIO

Hayden Ryan is a Yuin-Walbanja sound scholar from Narooma on 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.

Hayden is a graduate of New York University’s Master of Music in Music Technology (2022-24); a 2025 Helsinki Interntaional Artist Programme (HIAP) resident; currently a Vice-Chancellor’s Indigenous Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow at RMIT University (PhD; Associate Lecturer); and Creative Producer in First Nations Programming at Liquid Architecture. His PhD research investigates how sonic practice and acoustic space influence ways of understanding the environment, history, law and positionality within Indigenous cultures - blending signal-processing, (psycho)acoustics and spatial audio with Indigenous research methods to encapsulate the nuances between First Peoples and sound. 
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

listen ɪə: sounding out an Indigenous future. (2026). DISCLAIMER.

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
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 WORKS & PERFROMANCES

Hope St Radio Experimental Set 04/09/2026
/ˈmeɪtrɪɑːk/ (2026)
Hangman (2025)
TENYA (Gabi Briggs) (2025)
Living Echoes (Dakota Feirer) (2024)
White Noise (2023-2024; 2025)
Sound Shell (2022)