His work deals with the globalization of popular music, media technologies, experimental culture, and social practices of listening, and has been supported by the Mellon Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University. He is the author of recent essays in Public Culture, Popular Music, and Cultural Anthropology, as well as a forthcoming book Japanoise: The Cultural Feedback of Experimental Music (Duke University Press, 2012) that traces the transnational movements of the underground genre Noise, drawing from over a decade of ethnographic fieldwork in Japan and North America. His recent research focuses on the politics of sound in urban Japan, particularly in the impact of noise regulations on political protest in homeless and migrant labor communities in South Osaka.”