John Coulter is a retired senior lecturer in music and was previously the Head of Composition at the School of Music University of Auckland (2022). His creative interests include: live music, multichannel acousmatic music, environmentally driven music and art, instrument making, and sound therapy. John completed a Doctor of Philosophy degree at the University of Queensland in 2009 and has presented his work in several countries throughout the world including Australia, Canada, China, France, New Zealand, Portugal, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. Over his 30-year academic career he hosted several international conferences, received international awards for his  creative work, was published in Organised Sound and Sonic Ideas, founded and ran an arts-based charitable trust, and more recently completed a 265-page book Sonic Entanglements: Artmaking with Sound. ​ A selection of John's creative work may be viewed here