of Victoria
BMus, MMus (McGill)
Recording Techniques, Music Technology, Sound Recording
Kirk McNally is a sound engineer who specializes in popular and classical music recording, and new music performances using electronics. His professional resume includes studio work in Toronto and Vancouver, working with numerous national and international recording artists. His work as a balance/electronics engineer for new music performances has been heard in performances across Canada; in Tel Aviv, Israel; Graz, Austria; New York, United States; and as part of the Fromm Concert series at Harvard University.
He joined the School of Music at the University of Victoria in 2006 to support a new combined program in Music and Computer Science. In 2016, he was appointed as assistant professor of Music Technology for the School, and is the current program administrator for the undergraduate combined major program 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, and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.
His current research explores the multitude of ways that recording engineers and producers communicate with musicians, both verbally and through their use of technology to manipulate sound, in order to better understand how they create the music we know and love in our everyday lives.In 2017 he received an Internal Research/Creative Project Grant from the University of Victoria to support this work and in 2018 he was awarded a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Development Grant for his project, “Creating Capacity for Research into Sound Recording and Music Production”.