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Kirk McNally is a sound engineer who specializes in popular and classical music recording, as well as new music performances using electronics. He has worked with national and international recording artists in studios in Toronto and Vancouver, including REM, Bryan Adams and the National Youth Orchestra of Canada.

Kirk is the assistant professor of Music Technology for the School of Music at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He is the program administrator for the school’s undergraduate combined major program in music and computer science and the graduate program in Music Technology. His research and creative work has been supported by the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD), the Canada Council for the Arts, the University of Victoria’s Learning and Teaching Centre, the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).  

His research explores the diverse ways recording engineers and producers communicate with musicians, both verbally and through their use of technology to manipulate sound, to better understand how they create the music we know and love in our everyday lives. In 2018 he was awarded a SSHRC Insight Development Grant for his project, “Creating Capacity for Research into Sound Recording and Music Production.”