He has written two books bringing cultural studies and post-Lacanian psychoanalysis to music studies: Listening Subjects (Duke UP 97), and Listening Awry (Minnesota UP 06). He is currently working on a Lacanian take on Electronic Art. He has studied Interactive Telecommunications (NYU 01), Music Theory (UT Austin 87), German (U Hamburg, 81), Comparative Literature (Indiana University 80), and English (UVA 75).