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Hayden Ryan is a Yuin First Nations sound scholar and artist currently serving as a Vice-Chancellor's Indigenous Pre-Doctoral Fellow at RMIT University's School of Design. He works within the SIAL Sound Studios and holds an Associate Lecturer position at RMIT University beginning February 3, 2025. Originally from the south east coast of New South Wales, he now resides in Naarm (Melbourne, Australia).
Hayden completed his Master of Music in Music Technology at New York University, where he focused his thesis on Indigenising Sound Recording. His research examines colonial histories of audio technologies and their unchallenged extractive functions within the field.
His primary research interests center around Indigenous Sonic & Spatial Practice, which realizes the inextricability of land, body, sound and culture within Indigenous knowledge systems. Additional areas of interest include Spatial Audio, Psychoacoustics, and Acoustics, with particular focus on how colonial disruption has affected the role of sound and space within cultural practice.
His single documented publication presented at the 2024 Audio Engineering Society conference in Madrid addresses the colonial foundations of audio technology disciplines. This work represents his broader research agenda to utilize sound technologies to recentre Indigenous epistemological structures that have been disrupted by colonialism.
- Vice-Chancellor's Indigenous Pre-Doctoral Fellowship at RMIT University
- Residency at Helsinki International Artist Programme (HIAP) in Finland (August 2025)
Hayden is currently working on his PhD in Design at RMIT, focusing on formulating a robust framework that allows sonic and spatial aspects of culture to play a prominent role in land and heritage protection. His work aims to reclaim Indigenous knowledge systems through sound technologies.
He conducts his research within RMIT's SIAL Sound Studios, an environment specifically designed for advanced sound research and creation that supports his innovative approach to Indigenous sonic practices.
