Trace Reddell is a writer, artist and educator exploring the interactions of sound, technology, and psychedelic cosmological imaginaries.

Writer

Trace’s first book, The Sound of Things to Come: An Audible History of the Science Fiction Film (University of Minnesota Press, 2018), offers new ways of  construing  sonic  innovation  in  science  fiction cinema. A forthcoming book, The Magic Circle: Sonic Substance in Psychedelic Music (MIT Press), develops  a  theory  of  sonic  psychedelia.

Other publications include the feature essay, “Other Kinds of Mind There: Echologies of Psychedelic Sonic Substance,” in Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture, Vol. 15, No. 1 (2023); “Ethnoforgery and Outsider Afrofuturism,” in Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture, Vol. 5, No. 2 (2013); “Cyborg Ritual and Sentic Technology in the Vortex Concerts” in The Poetics of Space: Spatial Explorations in Art, Science, Music & Technology (Sonic Acts Press, Paradiso, 2010); and a chapter in Cybersounds: Essays on Virtual Music Culture (Peter Lang Publishing, 2006). Other sound-related articles have appeared in Leonardo Music Journal, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, the Contemporary Music Review, and the Electronic Book Review.

Trace's short fiction has appeared in Fiction International, Sniper Logic, American Goat, Black Ice, and the anthology, Midsummer Night's Dreams (Masquerade Books, 1998). His short story, "The Hindenburg Incident (A Medicine Man Adventure)," appeared in the anthology of original superhero stories, Alter Egos, Vol. 2 (Source Point Press, 2014). A Medicine Man novel is in the works.

ARtist

Trace’s audiovisual performances and video works have screened at over thirty international venues including galleries and new media festivals in New York, Denver, London, Glasgow, Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris, Zurich, Sao Paolo, Seoul, Hong Kong, and Tehran. His net.art and audio projects have appeared regularly on the Web since 1999. He founded Denver 's first digital media festival, A:D:A:P:T, in Spring 2003 at Denver 's Museum of Contemporary Art.

SCHOLAR

Trace is Professor of Emergent Digital Practices at the University of Denver. His courses cover sonic arts, expanded cinema and audiovisual performance, sound studies, critical theory, science fiction studies, and philosophy of technology, sound, and speculative materialism. He received a Ph.D. in English Literature from University of Colorado at Boulder in 1997, an M.A. in Creative Writing from University of Colorado at Boulder in 1989, and a B.A. in English Literature from Texas Tech University in 1986.